Wikipedia:WikiProject Tajikistan

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Welcome to WikiProject Tajikistan – a WikiProject set up to cooperate on all articles related to Tajikistan and Tajiks. The project was formed by Tajik Wikipedians on 24 June 2007. Its goals are to:

• Improve the quality and quantity of Tajikistan related articles, including improving Tajikistan to featured article status.
• Present a realistic view of Tajikistan and the Tajik people in the world.
• Make Wikipedia a primary and reliable source of Tajikistan related information.
• Present a holistic view of Tajikistan and her cultural satellites, and balance any biased information.
• Make Wikipedia one of the premier online resources on Tajikistan.

Members

See also: Category:WikiProject Tajikistan participants

Please feel free to add your name here.

• DThomsen8 (talk) 15:24, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
• AyodeleA1 (talk) 10:10, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Departments

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Tajikistan/Assessment – the assessment unit.

Task forces

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Tajikistan/Contemporary history of Tajikistan
• Soviet and post-Soviet cinema task force

Assessment

Tajikistan articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1					1
GA			1	5		1	7
B	4	6	2	6		4	22
C	3	8	21	26		10	68
Start	4	16	43	245		66	374
Stub	1	12	31	845		247	1,136
List		1	4	49		25	79
Category				1	1,269		1,270
Disambig					3		3
File					7		7
Portal					3		3
Project					3		3
Redirect		2		34	84		120
Template				1	87		88
NA					1		1
Other					6		6
Assessed	12	46	102	1,212	1,463	353	3,188
Unassessed				1		15	16
Total	12	46	102	1,213	1,463	368	3,204
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 9,044			Ω = 5.62

Welcome to the assessment department of the Tajikistan WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Tajikistan related articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Tajikistan}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Tajikistan articles by quality and Category:Tajikistan articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Frequently asked questions

How can I get my article rated?

Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.

Who can assess articles?

Any member of the Tajikistan WikiProject is free to add or change the rating of an article.

Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments?

Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, we are unable to leave detailed comments in most cases. If you have particular questions, you might ask the person who assessed the article; they will usually be happy to provide you with their reasoning.

What if I don't agree with a rating?

You can list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again.

Aren't the ratings subjective?

Yes, they are, but it's the best system we've been able to devise; if you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

Instructions

Quality assessments

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Tajikistan}} project banner on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):

FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class Tajikistan articles)		FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Tajikistan articles)		A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Tajikistan articles)		GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Tajikistan articles)		B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Tajikistan articles)		C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Tajikistan articles)		Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Tajikistan articles)		Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Tajikistan articles)		FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Tajikistan articles)		List

For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:

Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class Tajikistan articles)		Category
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class Tajikistan articles)		Disambig
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class Tajikistan articles)		Draft
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class Tajikistan articles)		File
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class Tajikistan articles)		Portal
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class Tajikistan articles)		Project
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class Tajikistan articles)		Redirect
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class Tajikistan articles)		Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Tajikistan articles)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Tajikistan articles)		???

After assessing an article's quality, any comments on the assessment can be added to the article's talk page.

Quality scale

WikiProject content quality grading scheme

Class	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editing suggestions	Example
FA	The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates. More detailed criteria The article meets the featured article criteria: A featured article exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes. It is: well-written: its prose is engaging and of a professional standard; comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context; well-researched: it is a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature; claims are verifiable against high-quality reliable sources and are supported by inline citations where appropriate; neutral: it presents views fairly and without bias; stable: it is not subject to ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured article process; and compliant with Wikipedia's copyright policy and free of plagiarism or too-close paraphrasing. It follows the style guidelines, including the provision of: a lead: a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections; appropriate structure: a substantial but not overwhelming system of hierarchical section headings; and consistent citations: where required by criterion 1c, consistently formatted inline citations using footnotes—see citing sources for suggestions on formatting references. Citation templates are not required. Media. It has images and other media, where appropriate, with succinct captions and acceptable copyright status. Images follow the image use policy. Non-free images or media must satisfy the criteria for inclusion of non-free content and be labeled accordingly. Length. It stays focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail and uses summary style where appropriate.	Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information.	No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible.	Cleopatra (as of June 2018)
FL	The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates. More detailed criteria The article meets the featured list criteria: Prose. It features professional standards of writing. Lead. It has an engaging lead that introduces the subject and defines the scope and inclusion criteria. Comprehensiveness. (a) It comprehensively covers the defined scope, providing at least all of the major items and, where practical, a complete set of items; where appropriate, it has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about the items. (b) statements are sourced where they appear, and they provide inline citations if they contain any of the four kinds of material absolutely required to have citations. (c) In length and/or topic, it meets all of the requirements for stand-alone lists; does not violate the content-forking guideline, does not largely duplicate material from another article, and could not reasonably be included as part of a related article. Structure. It is easy to navigate and includes, where helpful, section headings and table sort facilities. Style. It complies with the Manual of Style and its supplementary pages. (a) Visual appeal. It makes suitable use of text layout, formatting, tables, and colour; and a minimal proportion of items are redlinked. (b) Media files. It has images and other media, if appropriate to the topic, that follow Wikipedia's usage policies, with succinct captions. Non-free images and other media satisfy the criteria for the inclusion of non-free content and are labeled accordingly. (c) Accessibility. It uses proper formating to be accessible to all readers. Bulleted and unbulleted lists and tables are structured correctly. Visual media, if included, utilize alternative (alt) text. Stability. It is not the subject of ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured list process.	Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items.	No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible.	List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events (as of May 2018)
A	The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria The article meets the A-Class criteria: Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:Article development. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. Only minor style issues and other details need to be addressed before submission as a featured article candidate. See the A-Class assessment departments of some of the larger WikiProjects (e.g. WikiProject Military history).	Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting.	Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving. WP:Peer review may help.	Battle of Nam River (as of June 2014)
GA	The article meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria A good article is: Well-written: the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct; and it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation. Verifiable with no original research: it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline; reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose); it contains no original research; and it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism. Broad in its coverage: it addresses the main aspects of the topic; and it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style). Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each. Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute. Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio: media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content; and media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.	Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication.	Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing.	Discovery of the neutron (as of April 2019)
B	The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations. It has reliable sources, and any important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged is cited. Any format of inline citation is acceptable: the use of <ref> tags and citation templates such as {{cite web}} is optional. The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. It contains a large proportion of the material necessary for an A-Class article, although some sections may need expansion, and some less important topics may be missing. The article has a defined structure. Content should be organized into groups of related material, including a lead section and all the sections that can reasonably be included in an article of its kind. The article is reasonably well-written. The prose contains no major grammatical errors and flows sensibly, but does not need to be of the standard of featured articles. The Manual of Style does not need to be followed rigorously. The article contains supporting materials where appropriate. Illustrations are encouraged, though not required. Diagrams, an infobox etc. should be included where they are relevant and useful to the content. The article presents its content in an appropriately understandable way. It is written with as broad an audience in mind as possible. The article should not assume unnecessary technical background and technical terms should be explained or avoided where possible.	Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher.	A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines.	Psychology (as of January 2024)
C	The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup. More detailed criteria The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow.	Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study.	Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solve cleanup problems.	Wing (as of June 2018)
Start	An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following: A useful picture or graphic Multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic A subheading that fully treats an element of the topic Multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article	Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more.	Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use.	Ball (as of September 2014)
Stub	A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria.	Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant.	Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant.	Lineage (anthropology) (as of December 2014)
List	Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list or set index article, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area.	There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader.	Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized.	List of literary movements

Importance assessment

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Tajikistan}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Tajikistan| ... | importance=??? | ...}}

Top

High

Mid

Low

???

The following values may be used for importance assessments:

• Top - The article is about one of the core topics of Tajikistan studies. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance Tajikistan articles
• High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of Tajikistan studies. Adds articles to Category:High-importance Tajikistan articles
• Mid - The article is about a topic within the Tajikistan studies field that may or may not be commonly known outside the Tajikistan studies community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Tajikistan articles
• Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the Tajikistan studies field and is not generally common knowledge outside the community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance Tajikistan articles
• Unknown - Any article which has not yet been assessed on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Tajikistan articles.

Importance scale

Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editor's experience	Example
Top	The article is one of the core topics about Tajikistan studies. Generally, this is limited to those articles that are included as sections of the main Tajikistan article.	A reader who is not involved in the field of Tajikistan studies will have high familiarity with the subject matter and should be able to relate to the topic easily.	Articles in this importance range are written in mostly generic terms, leaving technical terms and descriptions for more specialized pages.	Tajikistan
High	The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding Tajikistan studies.Includes any city with a population over 100,000.
Mid	The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in the history of Tajikistan studies. Includes any city with a population over 25,000 and provincial capitals.	Many readers will be familiar with the topic being discussed, but a larger majority of readers may have only cursory knowledge of the overall subject.	Articles at this level will cover subjects that are well known but not necessarily vital to understand Tajikistan studies. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text. Most of the people and characters involved in Tajikistan studies will be rated in this level.
Low	The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of Arthurian studies.	Few readers outside the Tajikistan studies field may be familiar with this matter. It is likely that the reader does not know anything at all about the subject before reading the article.	Articles at this range of importance will often delve into the minutiae of Tajikistan studies, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed. .

Requesting an assessment

If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below.

• Tajik Border Troops
• Sogdia

Assessment log

The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.

November 21, 2024

Reassessed

• Ariana (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

November 20, 2024

Reassessed

• Navdonak (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Tajikistani women politicians (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Category-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t)

November 19, 2024

Assessed

• Acantholimon zaprjagaevii (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

November 18, 2024

Assessed

• Category:Polish people of Tajikistani descent (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Tajikistani female butterfly swimmers (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)

November 17, 2024

Renamed

• List of heads of Regions of Tajikistan renamed to List of heads of regions of Tajikistan.

Assessed

• List of heads of regions of Tajikistan (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)

November 16, 2024

Reassessed

• Farkhod Oripov (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t)

Assessed

• Gender equality in Tajikistan (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)

To do list

• Comment on the Tajikistan-related articles up for deletion.

Requested articles

1. Traditional clothing in Tajikistan
2. List of universities in Tajikistan – missing entries
3. Fuzail Maksum – Bashmachi leader who fought against Bolsheviks in the 1920s-30s
4. Rahim Masov – historian
5. Kubadhiyan – medieval province in today's Tajikistan, only in Catalan: https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubadhiyan
6. King Somoni Inheritance nationalist youth movement
7. Jaman Pass, a pass on the Tajik/Afghan border
8. Shakhdara River
9. Matchi Nature Refuge[1] + mountain range
10. Illegal drug trade in Tajikistan

Other

• Add more information to Portal:Tajikistan.

Special Attention

Featured Articles

Good Articles

Portals

• Portal:Tajikistan
• New article announcements

Sources

General

• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Columbia Encyclopedia
• Encarta Encyclopedia
• Tajik language edition of Wikipedia
• Prominent Tajik Figures of the Twentieth Century (html version here)

Resources

The following sources are available from subscription databanks for the time periods indicated. The specific material may be available in abstract, citation, or full text format. To obtain such information, please send me an e-mail indicating the e-mail to send to as well as either the specific topic of interest or the title and dates of the requested source, and I will forward the relevant material. John Carter (talk) 18:51, 13 February 2011 (UTC)

• A&G Information Services (1999-2006)

Templates

Project Boxes

{{WikiProject_Tajikistan}} Placed on article talk page
{{User WikiProject Tajikistan}} Placed on user page	This user is a participant in the Tajikistan WikiProject.

{{Cyrillic script needed|Tajik=yes}}

Userboxes

{{User Tajikistan}}

This user comes from Tajikistan.

Stubs

{{Tajikistan-stub}}
{{Tajikistan-geo-stub}}
{{tajikistan-bio-stub}}
{{tajikistan-politician-stub}}

Barnstar

• Anyone can award a barnstar! You don't need to be an admin, and neither the giver nor the recipient needs to be from the country. So if you see someone helping this Wikiproject, place the following on their wall:

Image	What to type	Country
The Tajikistan Barnstar	{{subst:The Tajikistan Barnstar of National Merit|message ~~~~}}	Tajikistan BarnstarTajikistan

Related WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Afghanistan
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Central Asia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject India
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Iran
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Pakistan
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Pashtun
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Uyghurs of Western China
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Kyrgyzstan

Tools

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks – Edits bare references – adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks – Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer – Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.