Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Luxembourg. This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles on the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The article ratings are used within the project itself to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Luxembourg}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Luxembourg articles by quality and Category:Luxembourg articles by importance.

A big thanks goes to the Military history WikiProject, whose assessment department's format has been stolen as the model for WikiProject Luxembourg's assessment department. Maybe they designed it with their own hands and brains. Maybe they pilfered it from another WikiProject. Either way, credit goes to someone else.

1. How do I add an article to the WikiProject?

Just add {{WikiProject Luxembourg}} to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.

2. Someone put a {{WikiProject Luxembourg}} template on an article, but it's not directly related to Luxembourg. What should I do?

Occasionally, mistakes are made, and people add tags to articles that shouldn't have them. If you notice one, you have a pressing moral decision to make. Either, you could judge that it doesn't belong in WikiProject Luxembourg's scope, in which case, you should remove the tag, possibly leaving a note on the talk page of this department (or directly with the person who tagged the article). Alternately, you could judge that the article may be interpreted to, or may in future, fall within the scope of the WikiProject, in which case, you may decide to keep the tag.

3. What is the purpose of the article ratings?

The objective of the rating system is two-fold. First, it allows the project to monitor the quality of articles in our subject areas, and to prioritise work on these articles. Second, the ratings can be used by external groups, most notably the Wikipedia 1.0 project, to compile a "released version" of Wikipedia that can be distributed to readers. Please note, however, that these ratings are meant for the internal use of the project, and do not imply any official standing within Wikipedia as a whole.

4. How can I get an article rated?

Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.

5. Who can assess articles?

Any member of the Luxembourg WikiProject is free to add a rating to an article, or even change one already given. You can assess your own articles, but its preferable for others to do it (particularly in terms of quality).

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Aren't the ratings subjective?

Yes, they are (see, in particular, the disclaimers on the importance scale), 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!

9. What if I have a question not listed here?

If your question concerns the article assessment process specifically, please refer to the talk page of this department; for any other issues, you can go to the main project discussion page, or contact the project coordinators directly.

An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Luxembourg}} project banner on its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax):

{{WikiProject Luxembourg| class=??? | importance=???}}

The following values may be used for the class parameter:

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

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

The following values may be used for the importance parameter:

• Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Luxembourg articles)
• High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Luxembourg articles)
• Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Luxembourg articles)
• Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Luxembourg articles)

The parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases. The importance should be assigned according to the importance 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 Luxembourgers or those particularly interested in Luxembourg.

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.

The article about SES S.A. needs a new assessment and feedback, I guess.

The article about Elisabeth Margue was rewritten, and the one about Martine Hansen is done, but still a draft.