Wikipedia:WikiProject Civil engineering/Assessment
One of the main tasks of WikiProject:Civil Engineering is to assess the quality of Wikipedia's civil engineering articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to help in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. They also play a role in the WP:1.0 program.
The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Civil engineering}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Civil engineering articles by quality.
How to Assess
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Civil engineering}} 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 Civil engineering articles) |  FA |
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| A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Civil engineering articles) |  A |
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| GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Civil engineering articles) |  GA |
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| B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Civil engineering articles) | B | |
| C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Civil engineering articles) | C | |
| Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Civil engineering articles) | Start | |
| Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Civil engineering articles) | Stub | |
| FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Civil engineering articles) | FL |
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| List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Civil engineering articles) | List |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
| NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Civil engineering pages) | NA | |
| ??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Civil engineering articles) | ??? |
Quality scale
WikiProject Civil Engineering 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
- Basic syntax
{{Civil engineering| class=stub | importance=Low}}
- The word "importance" to start with a lowercase i. Values start with Uppercase, e.g. Low
Need: The article's priority or importance, regardless of its quality
| Top | Subject is a must-have for a print encyclopaedia | Regional and historic engineering techniques, world famous civil engineers and works of civil engineering; "Most famous or innovative, or otherwise notable." may appear in the text; article that covers several topics |
| High | Subject contributes a depth of knowledge | Very important civil engineering projects and noteworthy civil engineers |
| Mid | Subject fills in more minor details | Interesting civil engineering projects and civll engineers |
| Low | Subject is mainly of specialist interest | Other civil engineering-related topics |
| NA | Not Applicable | Used for lists |
| None | Unassessed | Unassessed-importance Civil engineering articles |