Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Assessment

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Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Television. This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's television 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 Television}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Television articles by quality and Category:Television articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist (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 Television 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 Television}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Television|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 television articles)  FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class television articles)  A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class television articles)  GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class television articles) B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class television articles) C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class television articles) Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class television articles) Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class television articles)  FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class television 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 television articles) Category
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class television articles) Disambig
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class television articles) Draft
FM (for featured media only; adds pages to Category:FM-Class television articles)  FM
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class television articles) File
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class television articles) Portal
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class television articles) Project
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class television articles) Redirect
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class television articles) Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class television articles) NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed television articles) ???

For a non-article, such as a Category, File, Template, or Project page, placing the {{WikiProject Television}} banner on the talk page, without a class parameter, will automatically put the page in the appropriate class category.

Quality scale

Importance assessment

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Television}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Television|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 television articles)  Top 
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance television articles)  High 
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance television articles)  Mid 
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance television articles)  Low 
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance television articles)  NA 
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance television articles)  ??? 

Importance scale

Don't worry too much about assessing for Importance. It's helpful to have the most vital television articles tagged as Top importance so they can be easily identified as the highest priority, but less influential television articles don't really need to be tagged for importance.

Article importance grading scheme


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 below. Please add new entries to the bottom of the 2022 list and sign with four tildes (~~~~). An archive of past requests can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Assessment/Request archive.

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  • Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television I have begun working on this page in the hopes of getting it to GA. I then signed up for the WikiCup and so have decided that I will get this to GA. I am putting this here to see if anyone could provide anymore ideas as to how to improve it. I was thinking of adding an image just I couldnt decide on what. Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 00:26, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    • It clearly seems to meet all of the criteria for class B. Bgsu98 (Talk) 02:51, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
      • @Bgsu98: Yes but what could be improved to get it past B? Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 05:56, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
        • A big issue I see is that the production section seems empty, which I think is in part because the paragraphs are so spread out. There's no need for a writing and a casting subsection; just have one paragraph for each of the two topics. I also think the details about the end tag and the song used could be moved to the production section and the rest of the culture references removed, since most of the Marvel stuff is WP:SYNTH and not really about the episode. RunningTiger123 (talk) 02:03, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • The Netflix Cup I have begun working on this page User:Dudleybus User talk:Dudleybus 17:19, 6 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Dudleybus: I see another volunteer has marked it Start-class. It looks like many of the key sections are there, but each is a bit short. In particular, there might be more information under "Reception" or a new section marked "Production". For the first, the article says it "was met with mixed reactions" but only one is quoted: more references would be good. For the latter, did Netflix release any information about how this event was conceived or made or did the players give any interviews about it? — Bilorv (talk) 19:17, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Statistics

Article quality statistics

As of 28 March 2024, there are 108,031 articles within the scope of WikiProject Television, of which 527 are featured. This makes up 1.59% of the articles on Wikipedia and 4.66% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 217,155 pages in the project.

Television article rating and assessment scheme
(NB: Quality stats are updated on a daily basis by a bot. Log not available)
Daily log of status changes
Current Statistics

Popular pages

  • Popular pages: A bot-generated list of pageviews, useful for focused cleanup of frequently viewed articles.

Assessment log

The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
  1. ^ For example, this image of the Battle of Normandy is grainy, but very few pictures of that event exist. However, where quite a number of pictures exist, for instance, the moon landing, FPC attempts to select the best of the ones produced.
  2. ^ An image has more encyclopedic value (often abbreviated to "EV" or "enc" in discussions) if it contributes strongly to a single article, rather than contributing weakly to many. Adding an image to numerous articles to gain EV is counterproductive and may antagonize both FPC reviewers and article editors.
  3. ^ While effects such as black and white, sepia, oversaturation, and abnormal angles may be visually pleasing, they often detract from the accurate depiction of the subject.