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Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Law! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about the law and legal system. 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 recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Law}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Legal articles by quality and Category:Legal articles by importance.

Frequently asked questions

How do I add an article to the WikiProject?
Just add {{WikiProject Law}} to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.
How can I get my article rated?
Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
Who can assess articles?
Any editor is free to add a rating to an article if they wish.
What if I don't agree with a rating given by some other editor?
You can then list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. It is most likely to be assessed by someone from this department.
Aren't the ratings subjective?
Yes, they are (see, in particular, the disclaimers on the importance scale), 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!
Did the reviewer leave any comments?
If the reviewer had a left a comment, a link, "(see comments)" will show up on the project banner, that will take you to the sub-page containing the comments.
Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments?
Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, you may not receive detailed comments in all instances. If this is the case, you might ask the person who assessed the article if you have any particular questions; they will usually be happy to provide you with their reasoning.
Any article may be reviewed to a "B" grade by any one editor. Beyond this stage, the article should be peer-reviewed by at least three editors.

Framework information. See Using the bot and WikiProject Council Guide.

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

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 place new requests (in the format, # [[article name]] -- ~~~~ ) at the bottom of the list.

Instructions

An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Law}} project banner on its talk page: 

{{WikiProject Law
|class= 
|importance= 
|attention= 
|needs-infobox= 
|peer-review= 
|old-peer-review= 
}}

The following values may be used for the class parameter:

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed-Class legal articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

Quality scale

Template:WP Law Grading scheme

Importance scale

The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view on the topic's significance. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of the law.

Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the legal system in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a common law audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.

Status Template Meaning of Status
Top {{Top-Class}} This article is of the utmost importance to this project, as it forms the basis of all information.
High {{High-Class}} This article is fairly important to this project, as it covers a general area of knowledge.
Mid {{Mid-Class}} This article is relatively important to this project, as it fills in some more specific knowledge of certain areas.
Low {{Low-Class}} This article is of little importance to this project, but it covers a highly specific area of knowledge or an obscure piece of trivia.
None None This article is of unknown importance to this project. It remains to be analysed.

Importance assessment

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

{{WikiProject Law| ... | importance=??? | ...}}
Top
High
Mid
Low
???

The following values may be used for importance assessments:

Assessment Team

The list of members below make up the WikiProject Law Assessment team. Members of the team who are bolded (below) are currently the main, active member(s) of the assessment team - they are most likely to assess articles, so please direct any enquiries regarding assessment or the assessment department towards them.

  1. Ncmvocalist (talk · contribs) - maintenance of assessment dept. and currently, main member of assessment team
  2. Tarun2k (talk · contribs) (special interest: tax laws, indian laws
  3. EECavazos (talk · contribs)

Example assessments

Legal articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 1 2 3 6
FL 1 2 3
GA 4 8 10 22
B 15 33 64 40 79 231
C 9 55 75 157 105 401
Start 44 143 307 890 1 352 1,737
Stub 2 21 110 391 111 635
List 2 4 39 5 42 92
Category 44 44
Disambig 3 3
Redirect 2 4 6
Template 18 18
NA 1 1 2
Assessed 70 259 572 1,534 76 689 3,200
Total 70 259 572 1,534 76 689 3,200

To assess an article, paste one of the following onto the article's talk page.

Quality

  • {{WikiProject Law|class=FA}} - to rate an article at FA-Class
  • {{WikiProject Law|class=A}} - to rate an article at A-Class
  • {{WikiProject Law|class=GA}} - to rate an article at GA-Class
  • {{WikiProject Law|class=B}} - to rate an article at B-Class
  • {{WikiProject Law|class=Start}} - to rate an article at Start-Class
  • {{WikiProject Law|class=Stub}} - to rate an article at Stub-Class
  • {{WikiProject Law}} - to leave the article un-assessed.

Importance

  • {{WikiProject Law|importance=Top}} - to rate an article at Top importance
  • {{WikiProject Law|importance=High}} - to rate an article at High importance
  • {{WikiProject Law|importance=Mid}} - to rate an article at Mid importance
  • {{WikiProject Law|importance=Low}} - to rate an article at Low importance

Log

The full log of assessment changes for the past thirty days is available here. Unfortunately, due to its extreme size, it cannot be transcluded directly.

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