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

An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Maryland}} project banner on its talk page:

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The following values may be used for the class parameter:

• FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class Maryland articles)
• A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Maryland articles)
• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Maryland articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Maryland articles)
• C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Maryland articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Maryland articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Maryland articles)
• NA (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Maryland pages)

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Maryland articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

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 students of Maryland.

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.

We are currently discussing which articles should be counted as being of Top-importance at Wikipedia:WikiProject Maryland/Assessment/Top-importance articles.

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.

• magfest
• Islamic Society of Baltimore
• George Snyder (politician)
• North Potomac, Maryland
• Anne Arundel Community College

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.

• Isabel Pope (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
• List of county executives of Maryland (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as List-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)

• Arch Social Club (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• Dylan Behler (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
• Pope's Creek Subdivision (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)

• Laurel Cemetery (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
• Princess Wee Wee (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)

• WRBS (AM) renamed to WFOA.

• Ike Leggett (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to GA-Class. (rev · t)

• 2026 Maryland county executive elections (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Actresses by populated place in Maryland (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Actresses from Silver Spring, Maryland (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Baltimore Orioles season stubs (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Male actors by populated place in Maryland (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• WFOA (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)

• April McClain Delaney (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from NA-Class to B-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Ike Leggett (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from GA-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)

• Category:Entertainers from Baltimore (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Narrow-gauge railroads in Maryland (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)

• Category:Narrow gauge railroads in Maryland (talk) removed.

• Thomas L. Moxley (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)

• George Kephart (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
• Draft:Izzy Patoka (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)

• Danny Acosta (baseball) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
• Dylan Behler (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Draft:1892 Western Maryland Green Terror football team (talk) removed.

• April McClain-Delaney renamed to April McClain Delaney.

• Alice Pollard Clark (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
• Frank E. Williams (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• George Hawkins Williams (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• Karla Smith (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• Sheila Tillerson Adams (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• Terry West (jockey) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
• Wallace Williams (politician) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)

• April McClain Delaney (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Dianaruthe Wharton (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Elizabeth Murphy Moss (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

• Stanton Chase (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Terry West (jockey) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)

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