Wikipedia:WikiProject Linguistics/Assessment

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This is the WikiProject Linguistics assessment summary page. See WP:1.0 and WP:WVWP for more information. For linguistics articles, see Category:Linguistics or Category:Linguistics lists. For linguistics stubs, see Category:Linguistics stubs. For unassessed linguistics articles, see Category:Unassessed Linguistics articles

Instructions

Quality

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Linguistics}} project banner on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.

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

Importance

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

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

article's importance, regardless of its quality.

WikiProject article importance scheme

Importance	Criteria	Example
Top	Subject is extremely important, even crucial, to the field of linguistics. Most non-experts will be familiar with the subject.	Grammar
High	Subject is important to the field of linguistics. Many non-experts will have heard of the subject, but may not be familiar with it.	Morpheme
Mid	Subject fills out more minor details in linguistics. Non-experts may not have heard of it.	Pseudogapping
Low	Subject is not particularly important within the field of linguistics, but is still notable.	G cell