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Welcome to the assessment department of the Canada WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Canada related articles. 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 Canada|class= |importance= }} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Canada-related articles by quality and Category:Canada-related articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
| {{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Canada-related articles by quality statistics}} |
| Canada articles: Index · Statistics · Log |
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 Canada 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 {{WikiProject Canada}} project banner on its talk page: {{WikiProject Canada|class=???}}
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 Canada-related articles) |  FA |
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| A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Canada-related articles) |  A |
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| GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Canada-related articles) |  GA |
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| B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Canada-related articles) | B | |
| C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Canada-related articles) | C | |
| Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Canada-related articles) | Start | |
| Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Canada-related articles) | Stub | |
| FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Canada-related articles) | FL |
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 Canada-related articles) | Category | |
| Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class Canada-related articles) | Disambig | |
| Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class Canada-related articles) | Portal | |
| Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class Canada-related articles) | Project | |
| Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class Canada-related articles) | Redirect | |
| Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class Canada-related articles) | Template | |
| NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Canada-related articles) | NA | |
| ??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Canada-related articles) | ??? |
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:{{Wikipedia:Featured article criteria}}
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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. | Canada |
| 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:{{Wikipedia:Featured list criteria}}
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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 prime ministers of Canada |
| 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:
{{Wikipedia:Content assessment/A-Class criteria|raw=yes}} |
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. | Hurricane Arthur (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
{{Wikipedia:Good article criteria}}
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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. | Canadians |
| 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
{{Wikipedia:Content assessment/B-Class criteria|raw=yes}}
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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. | History of Canada |
| 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.
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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. | Law of Canada |
| 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:
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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. | Canadian Human Rights Act |
| 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. | Science and technology in Canada |
| 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 Companions of the Order of Canada |
| Category | Any category falls under this class. | Categories are mainly used to group together articles within a particular subject area. | Large categories may need to be split into one or more subcategories. Be wary of articles that have been miscategorized. | Category:Canada |
| Disambig | Any disambiguation page falls under this class. | The page serves to distinguish multiple articles that share the same (or similar) title. | Additions should be made as new articles of that name are created. Pay close attention to the proper naming of such pages, as they often do not need "(disambiguation)" appended to the title. | Canadian (disambiguation) |
| File | Any page in the file namespace falls under this class. | The page contains an image, a sound clip or other media-related content. | Make sure that the file is properly licensed and credited. | File:Flag of Canada.svg |
| Portal | Any page in the portal namespace falls under this class. | Portals are intended to serve as "main pages" for specific topics. | Editor involvement is essential to ensure that portals are kept up to date. | Portal:Canada |
| Project | All WikiProject-related pages fall under this class. | Project pages are intended to aid editors in article development. | Develop these pages into collaborative resources that are useful for improving articles within the project. | Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada |
| Redirect | Any redirect falls under this class. | The page redirects to another article with a similar name, related topic or that has been merged with the original article at this location. | Editor involvement is essential to ensure that articles are not mis-classified as redirects, and that redirects are not mis-classified as articles. | Canadian federal election |
| Template | Any template falls under this class. The most common types of templates include infoboxes and navboxes. | Different types of templates serve different purposes. Infoboxes provide easy access to key pieces of information about the subject. Navboxes are for the purpose of grouping together related subjects into an easily accessible format, to assist the user in navigating between articles. | Infoboxes are typically placed at the upper right of an article, while navboxes normally go across the very bottom of a page. Beware of too many different templates, as well as templates that give either too little, too much, or too specialized information. | Template:Canada topics |
Importance assessment
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Canada}} project banner on its talk page:
{{WikiProject Canada|importance=???}}
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 Canada-related articles) | Top | |
| High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Canada-related articles) | High | |
| Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Canada-related articles) | Mid | |
| Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Canada-related articles) | Low | |
| NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance Canada-related articles) | NA | |
| ??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Canada-related articles) | ??? |
Note that the four city projects have their own importance scales. To rate the importance of an article for a city project, use the parameters |toronto-importance=???, |montreal-importance=???, |vancouver-importance=???, or |ottawa-importance=???.
Importance scale
| Label | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editor's experience | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top | The article is one of the core topics about Canada. Generally, this is limited to those articles that are listed on {{Canada topics}} | A reader who is not involved in Canada 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. | Government of Canada, Culture of Canada, British Columbia |
| High | The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding specific topics about Canada or general topics about parts of Canada | Most readers will have some knowledge of the subject | Articles at this level cover particular issues related to Canada, specific terms are used to detail the topic | Prime Minister of Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, History of Manitoba |
| Mid | The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in Canada. | 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 Canada. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text. | Minister of Transport (Canada), Rick Mercer, Jasper National Park |
| Low | The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of Canada, but may cover topics directly related to Canada. | Few readers outside of Canada or that are not within the local area of the article's topic 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 Canada, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed. | Todd Russell, Canada's grand railway hotels, Villages of Alberta, OpenBSD |
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 add it to the bottom of the following list.
- Fleet of the Royal Canadian Navy has been significantly upgraded. Please assess for A-class Robert Brukner (talk) 19:00, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
- I've rewritten the article on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and am hoping to bring it through to Featured Article status. Please assess for A-class. Cheers, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 00:33, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
- All the GO Transit line aricles (LW,MI,KI,BR,RH,ST,LE) should be reassessed. They've been much improved since they were all rated as start-class. Username6892 14:51, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
- I recently expanded Milton (electoral district). I think it's C now, but I'd like a second opinion on its assessment. Username6892 18:21, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
- I expanded Riding Mountain National Park and reformatted it to look more like the Banff National Park article, as suggested at last review. I also rewrote the activities section to read more like an encyclopedia entry and added some relevant historical events that were missing from the history section.Trek104 (talk) 19:52, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
- I've further tweaked Garibaldi Provincial Park and made significant expansions to Bowron Lake Provincial Park, and would like to get one or both of these reviewed for GA status. However, since they're the only articles I've done any major work on, I'd like to get some fellow Canadapedians to give me their opinions on the articles first. If there are major issues that need to be addressed, I'd like to get them fixed before adding to the GA-review queue. Thanks for any input. Luidias (talk) 18:38, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
- Can I get an re-assessment for the article Alert? Reggie's Wrath (talk) 19:07, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
- A requested article L. Ted Coneybeare has been created. An assessment is requested, please. Saqib.zamir.ksa (talk) 22:54, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
- Amanda Stepto - Before this year, this article of a Degrassi actress was [empty] with no sources, no biography, no filmography. I've written a biography from scratch with plenty of contemporary articles from ProQuest, podcasts she guested on and even dug up several sources saying that she was a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood in 1992-1993. ToQ100gou (talk) 11:33, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
- Parliament Building (Quebec) - article translated/expanded from French sixfold (the version is, in my opinion, more complete than the French one). Requesting reassessment - I think it is now a solid B grade, though I would be grateful for feedback. (PS. I'd be grateful for suggestions about how to improve it to a good article - write on my talk page). Szmenderowiecki (talk) 12:58, 6 June 2021 (UTC)
- Calgary Round-Up Band - article has had many updates, including many revisions and rewrites, I'm unsure of what the new grade would be but anything above Start.James Denesuk (talk) 20:27, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
- Edmonton Radial Railway - I significantly expanded the article and would like an outsider's perspective of what grade it deserves now. Thank you! CplKlinger (talk) 17:02, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
- Ford Ministry - Article created from the model of the Federal and Alberta Ministry pages. Thank you! WanukeX (talk) 05:35, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
- Melanie Leishman - Could this page please be reassessed? I've expanded the previously stub rated article to include full filmography (Film & TV) & summaries of significant career events with plenty of References & hyperlinks to existing Wiki pages. Thanks for your time! :) LooksGreatInATurtleNeck (talk) 22:28, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
- Premier of Ontario - Did a major rework with large content additions, may now be a C or B class article, didn't want to self-assess. Some areas of issue may be creation of summary statistics in the article based on Wikipedia biographies but not an independent source. Looking forward to comments, and I'll watch the talk page to see if there's anything in need of improvement. --Kwkintegrator (talk) 18:39, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
- Mohawk Island 5x expanded by Xeno and Fralambert. Thanks, 🐶 EpicPupper (he/him | talk) 22:58, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
- I've added a fair bit of content to Ottawa station since it was last assessed, and was wondering if I could get a reassessment. Thanks! Ottawajin (talk) 09:23, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
- I have extensively rewritten and expanded the article Bus rapid transit in Montreal and would appreciate a reassessment. Thank you! --Rfwang4 (talk) 07:18, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
- @Rfwang4: I've reassessed to B class. OhanaUnitedTalk page 08:25, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
- Is this where I ask for my article on the Hagersville Tire Fire to receive the coveted Low Importance label? If not, I would love some directions to where I'm supposed to be. Thanks, y'all! ATireOnFire
- @ATireOnFire: It just means that the article itself is relatively not quite important from the entire WikiProject Canada's perspective. It has nothing to do with the quality of the article. OhanaUnitedTalk page 08:23, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
- Is this the right place to ask for a re-sssessment? Please review changes to article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karyn_Pugliese. Icleaned it up. if the standard for mid is Rick Mercer then she should definately be higher, she is more like a Peter Mansbridge, only female and Indigenous. Many thanks.
- Please reassess the article concerning Schleese Saddlery. I have made significant changes and corrections, and feel that it could possibly qualify now for a start level as well as consideration for mid-level given that the company is the largest English saddle manufacturer located in North America and has significant global presence.
| Project | Aprox. size |
Statistics | WikiProject Canada banner | Independent banner | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WikiProject Ontario | 20,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |on=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Quebec | 11,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |qc=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Nova Scotia | 4,500 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |ns=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject New Brunswick | 3,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |nb=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Manitoba | 4,300 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |mb=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject British Columbia | 11,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |bc=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Prince Edward Island | 1,300 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |pe=yes}} | none | |
| WikiProject Saskatchewan | 5,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |sk=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Alberta | 9,500 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |ab=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Newfoundland and Labrador | 4,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |nl=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Toronto | 7,800 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |toronto=yes |toronto-importance=}} | {{WikiProject Toronto}} (3 transclusions) | |
| WikiProject Montreal | 3,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |montreal=yes |montreal-importance=}} | {{WikiProject Montreal}} (1,000 transclusions) | |
| WikiProject Vancouver | 2,200 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |vancouver=yes |vancouver-importance=}} | {{WikiProject Vancouver}} (880 transclusions) | |
| WikiProject Ottawa | 2,100 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |ottawa=yes |ottawa-importance=}} | {{WikiProject Ottawa}} (1,300 transclusions) | |
| WikiProject Canadian Territories | 3,300 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |yt=yes}} {{WikiProject Canada |nt=yes}} {{WikiProject Canada |nu=yes}} |
none | |
| WikiProject Governments of Canada | 2,700 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |cangov=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Political parties and politicians in Canada | 9,300 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |ppap=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Electoral districts in Canada | 2,500 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |riding=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Canadian law | 1,300 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |canlaw=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject History of Canada | 1,500 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |history=yes}} | none | |
| WikiProject Geography of Canada | 18,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |geography=yes}} | none | |
| WikiProject Canadian communities | 17,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |community=yes}} | none | |
| WikiProject Education in Canada | 3,700 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |education=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Canadian sport | 8,500 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |sport=yes}} | none | |
| WikiProject Canadian TV shows | 2,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |tvshow=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Canadian music | 10,000 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |music=yes}} | deleted | |
| WikiProject Saskatchewan communities and neighbourhoods | 1,500 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |sk=yes |community=yes}} | deleted | |
| Projects and taskforces outside the scope of WikiProject Canada's talk page banner | |||||
| WikiProject Film/Canadian cinema task force | 2,800 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |cinema=yes}} NB: only adds a link, does not assess |
{{WikiProject Film|Canadian-task-force=yes}} | |
| WikiProject Military history/Canadian military history task force | 2,800 | stats | {{WikiProject Canada |military=yes}} NB: only adds a link, does not assess |
{{WPMILHIST|Canadian-task-force=yes}} | |
| WikiProject Canada Roads | 2,300 | stats | none | {{Canada Roads WikiProject}} | |
| WikiProject Canadian football | 3,600 | stats | none | {{WikiProject Canadian football}} | |
| WikiProject Prescott-Russell | 36 | none | none | {{WikiProject Prescott-Russell}} | |
| Degrassi task force | 180 | stats | none | {{WikiProject Television|degrassi=y}} | |
| WikiProject Okanagan | 530 | stats | none | {{WikiProject Okanagan}} | |