• 1.1% List-Class
• 11.6% Stub-Class
• 42% Start-Class
• 32.2% C-Class
• 10.4% B-Class
• 2.1% GA-Class
• 0.7% FA-Class

Welcome to the assessment department of the WikiProject Autism! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about autism. 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 Autism}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Autism articles by quality and Category:Autism articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

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 Autistic WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article.

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.

The full syntax is as follows:

{{WikiProject Autism
|class=
|importance=
|attention=
|auto=
|needs-infobox=
|small=
}}

• class – a rating of the article's quality; see the assessment department for more details.
• importance – a rating of the article's importance; see the assessment department for more details.
• attention – "yes" if the article requires immediate attention. This adds the talk page to Category:Autism articles needing attention.
• auto – "yes" if the article will be automatically assessed by a bot. This adds the talk page to Category:Automatically assessed Autism articles.
• needs-infobox – "yes" if the article needs an infobox. This adds the talk page to Category:Autism articles needing infoboxes.
• small – "yes" to display a small version of the template aligned along the right side of the page.

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Autism}} 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 Autism articles)		FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Autism articles)		A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Autism articles)		GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Autism articles)		B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Autism articles)		C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Autism articles)		Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Autism articles)		Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Autism articles)		FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Autism articles)		List

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

The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to student

Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.

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

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):

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.

talonx78.54.38.80 (talk) 15:37, 25 October 2020 (UTC) I made an alteration to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valproate#Adverse_effects by including a 2020 review of valproate's use in inducing or worsening negative symptoms in rodents as adults or via the womb (this is a well-established model). I believe this is a key area of interest given comorbid diagnoses of autism and bipolar and the off-label prescription of valproate for bipolar. I would like to see the importance of the valproate article increased. I would request "mid" or "high".[reply]

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

Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Autism articles by quality log

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

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Autism articles by quality statistics