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Assessment is how pages are ranked, with class being a general assessment for Wikipedia, and importance being specific to the WikiProject or task force. This page provides some guidelines on how to assess for the Methodism work group, and contains information including the Assessment log showing any changes made, and examples of articles assessed at different classes and importance.
Requests for class assessments
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Requests for importance assessments
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How to assess
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Christianity}} project banner on its talk page: {{WikiProject Christianity|class=???|Methodism work group=yes}}
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 Methodism work group articles) |  FA |
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| A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Methodism work group articles) |  A |
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| GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Methodism work group articles) |  GA |
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| B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Methodism work group articles) | B | |
| C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Methodism work group articles) | C | |
| Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Methodism work group articles) | Start | |
| Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Methodism work group articles) | Stub | |
| FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Methodism work group articles) | FL |
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| List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Methodism work group articles) | List |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
Class grading
| Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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| 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. | Peter Jones (missionary) |
| 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 dates predicted for apocalyptic events (as of May 2018) |
| FM |
Pictures that have attained featured picture status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. More detailed criteria
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The page contains a featured image, sound clip or other media-related content. | Make sure that the file is properly licensed and credited. | File:American World War II senior military officials, 1945.JPEG (as of January 2012) |
| 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:
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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. | Towson United Methodist Church |
| 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
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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. | Christ the Lord Is Risen Today |
| 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
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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. | Methodist Church of Great Britain |
| 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. | African Methodist Episcopal Church |
| 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. | Ann Cutler (Methodist) |
| 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. | John Early (bishop) |
| 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 Methodist denominations |
| 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:18th-century Methodists |
| 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. | Independent Methodist |
| 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:John Wesley clipped.png |
Importance grading
| Importance | Criteria | Example |
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| Top | Subject is extremely important, even crucial, to Methodism. Reserved for subjects that have achieved international notability within Methodism. | John Wesley |
| High | Subject is extremely notable, but has not achieved international notability, or is only notable within a particular continent. | Methodist Church, Canada |
| Mid | Subject is only notable within Methodism and has achieved notability in a particular place or area. | Abingdon Press |
| Low | Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within Methodism. It may only be included to cover a specific part of a notable article. | List of ecclesiastical decorations |
| NA | Subject importance is not applicable. Generally applies to non-article pages such as redirects, categories, templates, etc. | File:John Wesley clipped.png |
Assessment log
Assessment log
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