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Welcome to the assessment department of the United States Government WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's U.S. Government-related articles. Much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, but 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 United States|USGov=|USGov-importance=}} talk page project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:United States Government articles by quality and Category:United States Government articles by importance, which serve as the sources for an automatically generated worklist.

Instructions

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Quality assessment

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An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject United States}} 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 United States Government articles)  FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class United States Government articles)  A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class United States Government articles)  GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class United States Government articles) B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class United States Government articles) C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class United States Government articles) Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class United States Government articles) Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class United States Government articles)  FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class United States Government 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 United States Government articles) Category
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class United States Government articles) Disambig
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class United States Government articles) Draft
FM (for featured media only; adds pages to Category:FM-Class United States Government articles)  FM
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class United States Government articles) File
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class United States Government articles) Portal
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class United States Government articles) Project
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class United States Government articles) Redirect
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class United States Government articles) Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class United States Government articles) NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed United States Government articles) ???

Importance assessment

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

{{WikiProject United States|importance=???|USGov-importance=}}

The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):

Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance United States Government articles)  Top 
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance United States Government articles)  High 
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance United States Government articles)  Mid 
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance United States Government articles)  Low 
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance United States Government articles)  NA 
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance United States Government articles)  ??? 

Quality scale

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Importance scale

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Statistics

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Current status

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Requesting an assessment

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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 at the bottom of the list. If you are interested in more extensive comments on an article, please use the peer review department instead.

To assess an article, simply update the Novels WikiProject template on the article's talk page. Please also strike out the request on this page by using the <s>Strike-through text</s> command and add a rationale for your assessment. Don't forget to sign your username after your comment using ~~~~.

  • This article was very short and limited in scope when it was first created, but I've been doing a lot of work to expand it. It's a pesticide poisoning surveillance program run by NIOSH-CDC. I put it under the US Government and Medicine projects. I've rated it as C-class (to be conservative), and I'm still working on wikilinks and formatting (please let me do this so I can get better at cleaning up articles!), but I'd like someone to go in and assess its quality to either verify it or change it accordingly. Mmagdalene722 (talk) 12:57, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs - Kindly reassess this article. Since its last assessment in 2012 it has been expanded, embellished with images, photographs and an External Audio box, external reference links, along with additional references from government archives. The article has clearly evolved beyond its initial Stub classification. Many thanks in advance for your thoughtful assistance and best wishes for the continued success of your editorial services on Wikipedia. 160.72.81.86 (talk) 23:13, 9 November 2021 (UTC)GCL[reply]


Assessment log

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November 21, 2024

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Reassessed

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Assessed

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November 20, 2024

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Reassessed

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Assessed

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November 19, 2024

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Renamed

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Reassessed

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Assessed

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November 18, 2024

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Renamed

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Reassessed

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Assessed

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November 17, 2024

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Reassessed

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Assessed

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November 16, 2024

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Reassessed

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Assessed

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November 15, 2024

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Assessed

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Removed

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  1. ^ For example, this image of the Battle of Normandy is grainy, but very few pictures of that event exist. However, where quite a number of pictures exist, for instance, the moon landing, FPC attempts to select the best of the ones produced.
  2. ^ An image has more encyclopedic value (often abbreviated to "EV" or "enc" in discussions) if it contributes strongly to a single article, rather than contributing weakly to many. Adding an image to numerous articles to gain EV is counterproductive and may antagonize both FPC reviewers and article editors.
  3. ^ While effects such as black and white, sepia, oversaturation, and abnormal angles may be visually pleasing, they often detract from the accurate depiction of the subject.