Wikipedia:WikiProject Madonna/Assessment
Welcome to the assessment department of the Madonna WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Madonna 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 Madonna}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Madonna articles by quality and Category:Madonna 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 Madonna 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 Madonna}} 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 Madonna articles) |  FA |
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| A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Madonna articles) |  A |
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| GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Madonna articles) |  GA |
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| B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Madonna articles) | B | |
| C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Madonna articles) | C | |
| Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Madonna articles) | Start | |
| Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Madonna articles) | Stub | |
| FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Madonna articles) | FL |
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| List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Madonna 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 Madonna pages) | Category | |
| Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class Madonna pages) | Disambig | |
| File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class Madonna pages) | File | |
| Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class Madonna pages) | Portal | |
| Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class Madonna pages) | Project | |
| Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class Madonna pages) | Template | |
| NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Madonna pages) | NA | |
| ??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Madonna articles) | ??? |
Quality scale
Importance assessment
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Madonna}} project banner on its talk page:
- {{WikiProject Madonna| ... | 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 Madonna. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance Madonna articles
- High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of Madonna. Adds articles to Category:High-importance Madonna articles
- Mid - The article is about a topic within the Madonna field that may or may not be commonly known outside the Madonna community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Madonna articles
- Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the Madonna field and is not generally common knowledge outside the community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance Madonna articles
- Unknown - Any article which has not yet been assessed on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Madonna articles.
Importance scale
| Label | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editor's experience | Example |
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| Top | The article is one of the core topics about Madonna. Generally, this is limited to those articles that are included as sections of the main Madonna article. | A reader who is not involved in the Madonna field 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. | Madonna |
| High | The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding Madonna. | |||
| Mid | The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in the history of Madonna. | 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 Madonna. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text. Most people involved in the history of Madonna will be rated in this level. | |
| Low | The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of Madonna. | Few readers outside the Madonna field or that are not Madonna students may be familiar with the subject 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 the Madonna, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed. Topics included at this level include most infrastructure of Madonna. |
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.
- American Pie - Should there be an assessment for this article or not because there's only a section in the article about the Madonna cover? --Bisco (talk) 06:51, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
- Selena - I don't know about this section (here) but I guess this is where people post articles or sections that talks about Madonna? Anyways, in the article "Selena" I edited, with sources, that says "... and was even called the Mexican equivalent of Madonna", also in this article, in the "After death" section, Madonna phoned Selena's family about how sad she was to hear that Selena was murdered. So these are also good "DYK Madonna" sections! --AJona1992 (talk) 22:46, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
- American Life - I spent months revamping the article and I have finally published my work, thanks --FeuDeJoie (talk) 22:17, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
- Hollywood - I have revamped the entire article, with the exception of the music video section. - Saulo Talk to Me 18:32, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
Assessment log
| Madonna articles: Index · Statistics · Log |
- The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
There were no logs for this project from January 7, 2025 - January 14, 2025.