Wikipedia:WikiProject African diaspora/Assessment
In order to better focus our efforts towards improving and maintaining Wikipedia articles related to persons of the African diaspora, WikiProject African diaspora is participating in article assessment. These article ratings not only identify topics in need of further work, but they also help us recognize excellent contributions. Parameters in the {{WikiProject African diaspora}} project banner define the rating of the article and place it in the appropriate sub-category of Category:African diaspora articles by quality and Category:African diaspora articles by importance.
How to assess
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject African diaspora}} 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 African diaspora articles) |  FA |
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| A (adds articles to Category:A-Class African diaspora articles) |  A |
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| GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class African diaspora articles) |  GA |
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| B (adds articles to Category:B-Class African diaspora articles) | B | |
| C (adds articles to Category:C-Class African diaspora articles) | C | |
| Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class African diaspora articles) | Start | |
| Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class African diaspora articles) | Stub | |
| FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class African diaspora articles) | FL |
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| List (adds articles to Category:List-Class African diaspora articles) | List |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject African diaspora}} 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):
| Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance African diaspora articles) | Top | |
| High (adds articles to Category:High-importance African diaspora articles) | High | |
| Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance African diaspora articles) | Mid | |
| Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance African diaspora articles) | Low | |
| NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance African diaspora articles) | NA | |
| ??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance African diaspora articles) | ??? |
Statistics
Quality scale
WikiProject African diaspora uses the same criteria for grading articles as set out by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team. If you are not sure what class an article falls under, leave a note on the WikiProject's talkpage, and someone will help you out.
Importance scale
African diaspora articles are rated on this importance scale. Importance must be regarded as a relative term. If importance values are applied within this project, these only reflect the perceived importance to this project An article judged to be "Top-Class" in one context may be only "Mid-Class" in another project. The criteria used for rating article priority 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).