Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Biography. This department focuses on assessing the quality and priority of Wikipedia's biography articles. A quality rating estimates how close an article comes to a professional standard. The priority or importance rating estimates the relative importance of a subject when compared to other biographical articles.; this rating can help project members to prioritise editing work. These quality and priority rating systems were established by the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team, and are customised by WikiProject organisers.

An article's rating is set in the class parameter of the {{WikiProject Biography}} project banner on the article's talk page. Setting the class value causes the article to be listed in the corresponding sub-categories under Category:Biography articles by quality, and to lists generated by bots such as.

Frequently asked questions

How can I request an article assessment?

Add it to the assessment request queue below. If you'd like someone to write some constructive feedback about the article, you can request a peer review from editors outside WikiProject Biography. At present, WikiProject Biography's peer review is backlogged.

Who can rate an article?

Anyone can rate a biographical article, but if you revised an article enough to change its potential rating, or if you have a conflict of interest, someone else should review it. A rating higher than B-class requires a more formal review process.

What if I disagree with a rating?

Ask the reviewer what they think the article needs (preferably on the article's talk page). You can also (re)list the article in the assessment request queue, or directly ask a WikiProject Biography member to review it.

Are the ratings subjective?

Reviewers are expected to follow Wikipedia's article quality grading criteria.

How can I begin assessing articles?

See "How to assess an article" below.

B If you have a question not answered here, please feel free to ask on the assessment talk page.

How to assess an article

Read the criteria in the quality scale, and determine which grade best reflects the state of the article. If the quality grade you chose differs from the one on the article's talk page, set the grade by changing the class parameter for each WikiProject banner, like this:

{{WikiProject Biography |class=Start}}

If the article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography but does not have a {{WikiProject Biography}} banner on its talk page, add the banner.

You can find articles to rate in Category:Unassessed biography articles. This is a list of talk pages that have a banner with an incomplete assessment.

There's more to article assessment than just quality and priority grades. See {{WikiProject Biography}} for complete instructions.

Class parameter

The valid values for the class parameter are:

• FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class biography articles)
• FL (adds articles to Category:FL-Class biography articles)
• A (adds articles to Category:A-Class biography articles)
• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class biography articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class biography articles)
• C (adds articles to Category:C-Class biography articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class biography articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class biography articles)
• List (adds articles to Category:List-Class biography articles)
• NA (for pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class biography articles)
  • Cat (a more specific class for use on category pages)
  • Dab (a more specific class for use on disambiguation pages)
  • Redirect (a more specific class for use on redirect pages)
  • Template (a more specific class for use on template pages; see example)

Articles without a valid class are listed in Category:Unassessed biography articles. Quality ratings should adhere to the quality scale below.

It is not necessary to add a class parameter to talk pages that do not correspond to ordinary articles. For categories, disambiguation pages, redirects, etc., the class is implicit.

Priority parameters

{{WikiProject Biography}} has separate priority parameters for specialised sub-projects and work groups. WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers has its own priority scale; please use it. For all other work groups and WikiProjects listed here, use WikiProject Biography's priority scale.

The valid values for all priority parameters are: Top, High, Mid, and Low.

Do not use priority parameters for non-articles (redirects, disambiguation pages, categories, etc.).

Quality scale

WikiProject content quality grading scheme

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. It is: well-written: its prose is engaging and of a professional standard; comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context; well-researched: it is a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature; claims are verifiable against high-quality reliable sources and are supported by inline citations where appropriate; neutral: it presents views fairly and without bias; stable: it is not subject to ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured article process; and compliant with Wikipedia's copyright policy and free of plagiarism or too-close paraphrasing. It follows the style guidelines, including the provision of: a lead: a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections; appropriate structure: a substantial but not overwhelming system of hierarchical section headings; and consistent citations: where required by criterion 1c, consistently formatted inline citations using footnotes—see citing sources for suggestions on formatting references. Citation templates are not required. Media. It has images and other media, where appropriate, with succinct captions and acceptable copyright status. Images follow the image use policy. Non-free images or media must satisfy the criteria for inclusion of non-free content and be labeled accordingly. Length. It stays focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail and uses summary style where appropriate.	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.	Mary Shelley (as of June 2008)
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: Prose. It features professional standards of writing. Lead. It has an engaging lead that introduces the subject and defines the scope and inclusion criteria. Comprehensiveness. (a) It comprehensively covers the defined scope, providing at least all of the major items and, where practical, a complete set of items; where appropriate, it has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about the items. (b) statements are sourced where they appear, and they provide inline citations if they contain any of the four kinds of material absolutely required to have citations. (c) In length and/or topic, it meets all of the requirements for stand-alone lists; does not violate the content-forking guideline, does not largely duplicate material from another article, and could not reasonably be included as part of a related article. Structure. It is easy to navigate and includes, where helpful, section headings and table sort facilities. Style. It complies with the Manual of Style and its supplementary pages. (a) Visual appeal. It makes suitable use of text layout, formatting, tables, and colour; and a minimal proportion of items are redlinked. (b) Media files. It has images and other media, if appropriate to the topic, that follow Wikipedia's usage policies, with succinct captions. Non-free images and other media satisfy the criteria for the inclusion of non-free content and are labeled accordingly. (c) Accessibility. It uses proper formating to be accessible to all readers. Bulleted and unbulleted lists and tables are structured correctly. Visual media, if included, utilize alternative (alt) text. Stability. It is not the subject of ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured list process.	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.	Timeline of Jane Austen (as of March 2008)
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.	Milla Jovovich (as of June 2008)
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: Well-written: the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct; and it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation. Verifiable with no original research: it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline; reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose); it contains no original research; and it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism. Broad in its coverage: it addresses the main aspects of the topic; and it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style). Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each. Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute. Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio: media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content; and media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.	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.	Theodore Kaczynski (as of July 2008)
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 The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations. It has reliable sources, and any important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged is cited. Any format of inline citation is acceptable: the use of <ref> tags and citation templates such as {{cite web}} is optional. The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. It contains a large proportion of the material necessary for an A-Class article, although some sections may need expansion, and some less important topics may be missing. The article has a defined structure. Content should be organized into groups of related material, including a lead section and all the sections that can reasonably be included in an article of its kind. The article is reasonably well-written. The prose contains no major grammatical errors and flows sensibly, but does not need to be of the standard of featured articles. The Manual of Style does not need to be followed rigorously. The article contains supporting materials where appropriate. Illustrations are encouraged, though not required. Diagrams, an infobox etc. should be included where they are relevant and useful to the content. The article presents its content in an appropriately understandable way. It is written with as broad an audience in mind as possible. The article should not assume unnecessary technical background and technical terms should be explained or avoided where possible.	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.	Captain Beefheart (as of July 2008)
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.	Mark Gerban (as of December 2011)
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: A useful picture or graphic Multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic A subheading that fully treats an element of the topic Multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article	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.	Samuel Beardsley (as of May 2008)
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.	Urraca of Castile, Queen of Portugal (as of May 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 mycologists (as of June 2008)

Priority scale

Priority must be regarded as a relative term. If priority values are applied within this project, these only reflect the perceived importance to this project and to the work groups the biography falls under. An article judged to be "Top-Class" in one context may be only "Mid-Class" in another project. The criteria used for rating article priority are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. 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).

Article importance grading scheme

Label	Criteria	Examples
Top	High probability that non-Historians would look this up. Limited to the top 200 biographies. Must have had a large impact outside of their main discipline, across several generations, and in the majority of the world. For instance, Einstein, brilliant physicist, but his theories have affected people outside of physics and in many other countries besides his nation of origin and several generations. His ideas have changed the way people think. No member should give this rating to any biography without first getting Project approval from the other members.	Albert Einstein
High	Must have had a large impact in their main discipline, across a couple of generations. Had some impact outside their country of origin.	Patrick Henry
Mid	Important in their discipline.	John Seigenthaler, Sr.
Low	Subject is notable in their main discipline.	Morena Baccarin

Requesting an assessment

If you would like a WikiProject Biography volunteer to rate an article, please feel free to list it below.

This is a quality rating only. Reviewers usually do not comment on the article. For more detailed feedback, you can request a peer review.

Articles submitted to the list below can be rated up to B-class. For higher assessments, see Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Instructions and Wikipedia:Featured article criteria.

Reviewers: For general assessment instructions, see "How to assess an article" above. After you assess an article, please delete it from the list.

If you checked for B-class readiness, please add a short section titled "B-class review" to the article's talk page. If you do not believe the article meets the criteria for B-class, explain what improvements it needs in order to pass. If it passes, confirm in writing that you checked the article for all B-class criteria, and that it passed.

Edit this section and add request to the end of the list.

1. Agnes of Périgord --David (talk) 23:26, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
2. Ken Kesey - Brian Fenton (talk) 20:47, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
3. Daisaku Ikeda - Kelvintjy (talk) 05:49, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
4. Isabelo de los Reyes -NyanThousand (talk) 07:20, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
5. Oriol Junqueras —Obi2canibe (talk) 20:40, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
6. Augustin-Jean Fresnel:  Since early December 2017, this article has been completely rewritten and restructured, massively expanded, and exhaustively checked against a long list of sources. Case for "High" importance: Completely reconstructed his main discipline (physical optics), with effects continuing to the present day, knowing no borders. Case for "Top" importance: High probability that any elementary physics student would look this up. Improvements to lighthouses had a large impact on travel and trade, globally, for more than a century. — Gavin R Putland (talk) 10:11, 20 January 2018 (UTC).
7. Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho - Jp16103 16:59, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
8. Pat O'Keeffe heavily expanded through COI process. Okeeffemarc (talk) 23:31, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
9. Arthur Frederick Bettinson - Thoroughly sourced and expanded. please take a look. Okeeffemarc (talk) 01:54, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
10. Indira Gandhi- Jonathansammy (talk) 18:34, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
11. Abdurauf Fitrat - Zarasophos (talk) 13:56, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
12. The Phenomenauts - Added 4,000 words; 109 references; five free images; 3 non-free images; four audio clips with subtitles; band member timeline. —Culix (talk) 05:36, 13 May 2018 (UTC)
13. Glückel of Hameln - I am looking to have start class reassessed following a significicant expansion and improvement upon the article, particularly regarding citations. Trematetremate (talk) 02:49, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
14. Andrew Divoff - currently listed as stub class. However, I have greatly expanded the article and provided many new citations from legitimate sources. Elwright13 (talk) 03:34, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
15. Satish Kumar Gautam - Requesting preliminary assessment before I begin work on this. Thanks in advance, MakersBreath (talk) 13:35, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
16. Bob Morrison (songwriter) - Eagledj (talk) 03:00, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
17. Helmut Krausnick -- K.e.coffman (talk) 06:25, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
18. Harold Cottam -- Significantly expanded from stub and added thorough list of citations. 2602:30A:C045:4390:CCC8:8D89:DCB2:930 (talk) 09:21, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
19. Edgar Stuart, Duke of Cambridge Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 18:23, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
20. Frances Tolmie - This article has been expanded during a recent editathon and is no longer a stub. Could you please reassess? Delphine Dallison (talk) 14:25, 23 October 2018 (UTC)
21. Q-Tip (musician), article needs reassessment. Blackjays1 (talk) 20:51, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
22. Thomas Braddell – article needs reassessment. Last assessment was 21 May 2008 Fiipchip (talk) 02:45, 10 November 2018 (UTC)
23. Claude Fuess --Nannochloropsis (talk) 04:57, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
24. Sarah Ryan (Methodist) Hemarcello (talk) 08:25, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
25. Gheorghe Duca — I've expanded the article well beyond a stub class, adding images and references. Needs reassessment. Thank you very much. DeliriousWolf (talk) 21:57, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
26. Gheorghe Pop de Băsești – Mentatus (talk) 10:04, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
27. Yosef Greenwald —תנא קמא (talk) 08:55, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
28. Yaakov Yehezkiya Greenwald —תנא קמא (talk) 08:55, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
29. Yaakov Yitzhak Neumann —תנא קמא (talk) 08:55, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
30. Rosemary Bamforth - This stub article was expanded as part of #1Lib1Ref and should now be reassessed. Delphine Dallison (talk) 17:39, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
31. Disappearance of Maddy Scott - NigelFox 18:39, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
32. Cecily Jordan Farrar--This is a quality article of a notable Colonial American WomanOldperson (talk) 00:46, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
33. Bimal Patel This article is of a notable Indian Architect, could you please assess? ParizadBaria (talk) 11:18, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Statistics

Current status

See also: Category:Biography articles by quality

Biography articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Core	Other	???	Total
FA	35	1,633		1,668
FL		203		203
A	1	131		132
GA	41	8,357		8,398
B	97	39,347		39,444
C	32	167,971		168,003
Start	2	760,061		760,063
Stub	1	1,035,356	1	1,035,358
List		8,057		8,057
Category	2	343,511		343,513
Disambig		8,161		8,161
File		31,710		31,710
Project		231		231
Redirect	3	45,117		45,120
Template		20,629		20,629
NA		512		512
Assessed	214	2,470,987	1	2,471,202
Unassessed	1	24,823		24,824
Total	215	2,495,810	1	2,496,026
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 10,819,651			Ω = 5.37

Assessment log

The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.

Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Biography articles by quality log

Worklist

The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Biography articles by quality

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Cleanup listings

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

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