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Project:Assessment scale

Guideline·shortcut PP:ASSESS

This page documents a PeptidePedia Wiki guideline. It is advisory: apply it with common sense, and note the exceptions on the talk page. Shortcut: PP:ASSESS.

How article quality is rated on this wiki.

Articles carry a quality rating on their talk page. The scale is a working tool for prioritising effort, not a badge; ratings are assigned by any editor and revised freely.

The classes

ClassCriterion
StubA definition and little else. Under about 300 words.
StartSome real content, but major aspects missing or unsourced.
CSubstantial, but with gaps, uneven sourcing or structural problems.
BComplete in coverage, sourced throughout, no major omission. Usable by a non-specialist.
AThorough, well sourced, well written, and reviewed by an editor other than the principal author.
FeaturedA-class, plus a formal review passed on comprehensiveness, neutrality and prose.

What raises a rating

In practice the step from C to B is almost always about sourcing density and about whether the article's numbers carry their comparators. The step from B to A is almost always about prose and about whether the lead genuinely summarises the article.

Importance

Separately from quality, articles carry a rough importance rating within their topic area, used to decide where limited reviewing effort goes. A high-importance stub is a worse problem than a low-importance C-class article.