Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy/Assessment
|
Welcome to the assessment department of the Philosophy WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Philosophy related articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{
project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Philosophy articles by quality and Category:Philosophy articles by importance.
Current status
Philosophy task force assessment statistics
statistics • log • category |
Frequently asked questions
- 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 Philosophy WikiProject is free to add or change the rating of an article.
- 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.
- 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.
Instructions
Quality assessments
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{
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 Philosophy articles) | FA | |
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Philosophy articles) | A | |
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Philosophy articles) | GA | |
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Philosophy articles) | B | |
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Philosophy articles) | C | |
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Philosophy articles) | Start | |
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Philosophy articles) | Stub | |
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Philosophy articles) | FL | |
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Philosophy articles) | List |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class Philosophy articles) | Category | |
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class Philosophy articles) | Disambig | |
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class Philosophy articles) | Draft | |
File (for timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class Philosophy articles )
|
File | |
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class Philosophy articles) | Portal | |
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class Philosophy articles) | Project | |
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class Philosophy articles) | Redirect | |
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class Philosophy articles) | Template | |
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Philosophy articles) | NA | |
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Philosophy articles) | ??? |
After assessing an article's quality, comments on the assessment can be added either to the article's talk page or to the /Comments subpage which will appear as a link next to the assessment. Adding comments will add the article to Category:Philosophy articles with comments. Comments that are added to the /Comments subpages will be transcluded onto the automatically generated work list pages in the Comments column.
Quality scale
Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
---|---|---|---|---|
FA | The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured article criteria:
A featured article exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes.
|
Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | Cleopatra (as of June 2018) |
FL | The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured list criteria:
|
Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events (as of May 2018) |
A | The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria
The article meets the A-Class criteria:
Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:Article development. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. Only minor style issues and other details need to be addressed before submission as a featured article candidate. See the A-Class assessment departments of some of the larger WikiProjects (e.g. WikiProject Military history). |
Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting. | Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving. WP:Peer review may help. | Battle of Nam River (as of June 2014) |
GA | The article meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria
A good article is:
|
Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication. | Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. | Discovery of the neutron (as of April 2019) |
B | The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria
|
Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. | A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines. | Psychology (as of January 2024) |
C | The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup. More detailed criteria
The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow.
|
Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. | Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solve cleanup problems. | Wing (as of June 2018) |
Start | An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria
The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following:
|
Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more. | Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use. | Ball (as of September 2014) |
Stub | A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria. | Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant. | Lineage (anthropology) (as of December 2014) |
List | Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list or set index article, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area. | There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. | Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. | List of literary movements |
Importance assessment
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{
- {{WikiProject Philosophy| ... | importance=??? | ...}}
Top |
High |
Mid |
Low |
??? |
The following values may be used for importance assessments:
- Top - The article is about one of the core topics of philosophy. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance Philosophy articles
- High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of philosophy. Adds articles to Category:High-importance Philosophy articles
- Mid - The article is about a topic within the philosophy field that may or may not be commonly known outside the philosophy community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Philosophy articles
- Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the philosophy field and is not generally common knowledge outside the community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance Philosophy articles
- Unknown - Any article which has not yet been assessed on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Philosophy articles.
Importance scale
Label | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editor's experience | Example |
---|---|---|---|---|
Top | The article is one of the core topics about philosophy. Generally, this is limited to those articles that are included as sections of the main Philosophy article. | A reader who is not involved in the philosophy field will have high familiarity with the subject matter and should be able to relate to the topic easily. | Articles in this importance range are written in mostly generic terms, leaving technical terms and descriptions for more specialized pages. No biographies of individual philosophers are included at this level. | Philosophy, Epistemology, Ethics, Medieval philosophy |
High | The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding philosophy. | A reader who is not involved in the philosophy field will likely recognize the subject matter and have some familiarity with the topic. | Articles at this level will cover subjects that are well known but not necessarily vital to understand philosophy. Articles about individuals known for philosophy by the general public will be rated at this level. | Aristotle, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Pragmatism, Applied ethics |
Mid | The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in the history of philosophy. | Many readers will be familiar with the topic being discussed, but a larger majority of readers may have only cursory knowledge of the overall subject. | Articles at this level will cover subjects that are well known but not necessarily vital to understand philosophy. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text. Articles about most significant individuals in the history of philosophy will be rated in this level. | Divine command theory, Embodied cognition, David Lewis, Judith Butler, Hypatia |
Low | The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of philosophy. | Few readers outside the philosophy field or that are not philosophy students may be familiar with the subject matter. It is likely that the reader does not know anything at all about the subject before reading the article. | Articles at this range of importance will often delve into the minutiae of philosophy, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed. Topics included at this level include most practices and infrastructure of philosophy. | Cyrenaics, Bohr–Einstein debates, Lambda calculus |
Requesting an assessment
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 at the bottom below.
- On Bullshit article, the stub tag was removed but an updated assessment has not been given. Could someone please assess the article. 451blue (talk) 00:58, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- Appeal to the stone article, the stub tag has been removed but major changes have been made on this article. Could someone please assess this article? Thank you! Covidking (talk) 04:56, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- Empirical limits in science article, the stub tag was removed and changes have been made to the article, can someone assess please? Airstarfish (talk) 09:39, 7 May 2022 (UTC)]
- ]
- I think that B-class makes sense, there doesn't seem to be anything important missing and it looks well cited.(In the interests of full disclosure I've contributed a small bit to this article but I feel comfortable assessing it as B-class as I have not worked on the majority of it. I would not be eligible to perform a good article review though were it nominated for that). ]
- Gerard Heymans: I expanded this article and added references. I think it is no longer a stub article.
- Historiography of the Christianization of the Roman Empire has been revised. I would like to see a reassessment of its importance. Jenhawk777 (talk) 18:52, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
- Colin Murray Turbayne has been revised with additional credit references to scholarly articles, additional text regarding his biographical history and publications, photograph, and External links. The article is currently rated as a "Start" as of ten years ago but seem to have progressed further along and should be reassessed in light of these improvements since he is an internationally recognized scholar on the works of George Berkeley (whenever you have time). Many thanks and Happy Editing!160.72.80.178 (talk) 23:40, 15 February 2023 (UTC)NHPL
- I think it meets all the B-class criteria, and it seems reasonably complete and well referenced. Nice work! ]
- Ciao Car Chasm --many thanks for your speedy assessment and kind compliments. It was a pleasure to assist in the development of this biography about one of my mentors at the University of Rochester. Turbayne's tireless research into the use and abuse of metaphorical epistemological constructs within ordinary language throughout the modern world in the 20th century gives new meaning to both the ancient philosophical adage from Lau-Tzu's ancient work the Tao Te Ching - To know that you do not know is best -- to think that you know when you do not know is a disease. Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it , as well, of course, as the Socratic paradox: I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.(Plato, Apology 22d), as well as Joseph Campbell's investigations into the evolution of mythology in his book The Masks of God It was a pleasure collaborating with you. Happy editing & Meliora! 160.72.80.178 (talk) 22:01, 24 February 2023 (UTC)NHPL
- I think it meets all the B-class criteria, and it seems reasonably complete and well referenced. Nice work! ]
- I have done some work on the article about Heidegger's Black Notebooks, and I'm wondering if it has yet escalated to the dizzy height of "Start" from Stub? I recognise that it is pretty much a backwater in the big scheme of things, but if anyone has a moment ... ? It is also still in need of much care and attention, but my name is featuring on the history list more than I am comfortable with, so I'm going to vacate the scene, so to speak, for a while. Dinkenfunkle 05:27, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
- I think it does, it's certainly longer than a normal stub, and it cites at least one reliable secondary source, so I've marked it start-class. Nice work! ]
- Heidegger_Gesamtausgabe (collected works) after my success on the last item ... I've gone all WP:Bold and done some major copy-edits to this (EDIT:
unratedlist-rated) article, and I'm wondering if somebody could have a look, either to provide a rating/comment, or just to give me some feed back. I'm particulary wondering if the 'wall of text' that is the list of works broken up by section and volume is worth keeping at all? Thanks in advance Dinkenfunkle 23:53, 13 August 2023 (UTC) - Hi! I have been working on improving Paradox of tolerance. It was initially rated as C class and I would appreciate some external input on whether or not the improvements should bump it up a grade or two. Ddevault (talk) 13:11, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- Lewis White Beck Ciao fellow editors:this article is currently assessed as a "Stub" but can probably be reassessed to at least a C-Class (hopefully)as a result of the introduction of additional content, wikified sections, publications and references with an external image box of Professor Beck lecturing to his students. Enjoy and thanks for the review! 160.72.81.86 (talk) 15:54, 24 May 2024 (UTC)GCL