Welcome to the assessment department of the Philately WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles related to Philately. 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 Philately}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Philately articles by quality and Category:Philately 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 Philately 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.

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

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

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

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

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

The following values may be used for importance assessments:

• Top - adds articles to Category:Top-importance Philately articles
• High - adds articles to Category:High-importance Philately articles
• Mid - adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Philately articles
• Low - adds articles to Category:Low-importance Philately articles
• Unknown - Any article not rated for importance is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Philately articles.

The assessment team have developed some criteria specific to Philatelic articles as guidelines for deciding the importance of articles being assessed. Different criteria tables have been created for different topic groups as shown below.

Importance Criteria to come

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.

• 1918 Curtiss Jenny airmail stamps — mikepascoe (talk) 18:36, 11 March 2021 (MST)

• Postcard — UliBretzel (talk) 05:36, 3 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• History of Virginia on stamps --- TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 19:53, 23 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
• Lovrenc Košir — Tirkfl^talk 10:23, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Start/Mid - needs to be un-orphaned and a decent copyedit, Some of the English does not make sense; it seems like a literal translation from the German. Needs a photo if possible. ww2censor (talk) 16:30, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Edwin Müller — Tirkfl^talk 10:23, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Start/Mid - also needs to be un-orphaned. Needs a photo if possible. ww2censor (talk) 16:30, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Wilhelm Dachauer — Tirkfl^talk 14:21, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Start/Mid - Needs a photo of subject if possible. ww2censor (talk) 16:30, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Japanese post in Korea — Tirkfl^talk 14:21, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Stub/low - This is really a start of a section of the article Postage stamps and postal history of Korea which needs writing. A PD image should be available for this time period. Do any of these or these stamps fit? ww2censor (talk) 16:30, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Z Grill — PremKudva^Talk 04:39, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• Postal history of Palestine — Bleddynefans (talk) 18:16, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Previously assessed as Start/Low - still needs naming to be fixed - the content does not match the name! ww2censor (talk) 00:21, 13 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

• U.S. Space Exploration History on U.S. Stamps -- GWillHickers (talk) 10:30, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Postage stamps and postal history of Uruguay - Arno-nl^talk 11:38, 30 march 2012 (UTC)

The logs in this section are generated automatically (every few days) by a bot; please don't add entries to them by hand.

• 1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• Postage stamps and postal history of Timor-Leste (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from NA-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Postage stamps and postal history of East Timor renamed to Postage stamps and postal history of Timor-Leste.

• Postage stamps and postal history of Timor-Leste (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)

• Zürich 4 and 6 renamed to Zurich 4 and 6.

• Zurich 4 and 6 (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)

• Children's Museum Singapore (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from NA-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)

• 2018 Canada Post strikes (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

• Template:USPostGen renamed to Template:United States postmasters general.

• Template:United States postmasters general (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)