Welcome to the assessment department of the Shropshire WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Shropshire 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. Category:Shropshire articles by quality serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WP Shropshire}} project banner. Filling in a rating in the class parameter of the {{WP Shropshire}} template on the talk page of an article causes the name of that article to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Shropshire articles by quality.

How can I get an article rated?

Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.

Who can assess articles?

Any member of the Shropshire 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. Alternatively, 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!

To assess article relating to Shropshire, the template {{WP Shropshire}} has to be placed on the talk page of an article, if it is not already there. You should try to fill in the "class" and the "importance" parameters. This is what the template looks like.

Shropshire Unassessed

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When writing the template, you should type in the following:

{{WP Shropshire|class=|importance=}}

After both of the "equals" signs you should enter one of the codes below.

One of the following codes should be entered into the class parameter, depending on how good the article is. This will automatically add the page into the corresponding category.

For articles which do not fit into any of these categories, there are other options.

• "NA" can be added if the page is a redirect or does not fit into any of the above categories.
• "Template" can be added if the page is a template.
• "Cat" can be added if the page is a category.
• "List" can be addedd if the page is a list.

The template should now look like this (presuming it is "start class"): {{WPShropshire|class=Start|importance=}}

Shropshire Start‑class

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In the "importance" parameter there are four different values that may be entered. They are shown below in a table, which also indicates what value to use and when to use it.

The template should now look like this (presuming it is "mid-class"): {{WP Shropshire|class=Start|importance=Mid}}

Shropshire Start‑class Mid‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Shropshire, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Shropshire on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ShropshireWikipedia:WikiProject ShropshireTemplate:WikiProject ShropshireShropshire Start This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

There are different parameters you can add into the template to make it more suitable for the article. They are listed below:

• Immediate Attention Required
• The Article Needs An Infobox
• The Article Needs A Photograph
• An Audio File Has Been Created Of This Article

This is how you can enter them into the template and what they look like.

{{WP Shropshire|class=Start|importance=Mid|attention=yes|needs-infobox=yes|needs-photo=yes|audio-file=yes}}

Shropshire Start‑class Mid‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Shropshire, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Shropshire on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ShropshireWikipedia:WikiProject ShropshireTemplate:WikiProject ShropshireShropshire Start This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

If you desire an article to be re-assessed, you can list it here. If you assess an article please remove it so other editors do not waste their time by re-assessing it. Thank you.

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