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| History of science articles |
Importance | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top | High | Mid | Low | None | Total | ||
| Quality | |||||||
 FA |
2 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 20 | ||
| A | 2 | 2 | |||||
 GA |
2 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 18 | ||
| B | 14 | 57 | 83 | 24 | 28 | 206 | |
| C | 1 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 22 | |
| Start | 9 | 37 | 86 | 86 | 30 | 248 | |
| Stub | 20 | 68 | 12 | 100 | |||
| Assessed | 30 | 113 | 216 | 183 | 74 | 616 | |
| Unassessed | 2 | 8 | 11 | 363 | 384 | ||
| Total | 30 | 115 | 224 | 194 | 437 | 1000 | |
Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject History of Science! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's history of science related articles (including history of technology, history of medicine, science studies, STS, etc.). 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 {{HistSci}} banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:History of science articles by quality and Category:History of science articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
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 WikiProject History of Science 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 {{HistSci}} banner on its talk page:
- {{HistSci| ... | class=??? | ...}}
| FA |
| A |
| GA |
| B |
| Start |
| Stub |
| ??? |
| Needed |
The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article:
- FA (adds articles to Category:FA-Class history of science articles)
- A (adds articles to Category:A-Class history of science articles)
- GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class history of science articles)
- B (adds articles to Category:B-Class history of science articles)
- Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class history of science articles)
- Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class history of science articles)
- Needed (for articles that do not yet exist but have been identified as subjects that should be covered; adds articles to Category:Needed-Class history of science articles)
| Template |
| Disambig |
| Category |
| NA |
For pages that are not articles, the following values can also be used for the class parameter:
- Template (for templates; adds pages to Category:Template-Class history of science articles)
- Dab or Disambig (for disambiguation pages; add pages to Category:Disambig-Class history of science articles)
- Cat or Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class history of science articles)
- NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article history of science pages)
Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed-Class history of science articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.
After assessing an article's quality, comments on the assessment can be added either to the article's talk page or to the /Comments subpage which will appear as a link next to the assessment. Adding comments will add the article to Category:History of science articles with comments. Comments that are added to the /Comments subpages will be transcluded onto the automatically generated work list pages in the Comments column.
Quality scale
| Label | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA {{FA-Class}} |
The article has attained Featured article status.
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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. | Tourette Syndrome (as of June 2008) |
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| FL {{FL-Class}} |
The article has attained Featured list status.
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FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives (as of January 2008) |
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| A {{A-Class}} |
The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been reviewed by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere.
|
Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. | Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style issues may need addressing. Peer-review may help. | Durian (as of March 2007) |
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| GA {{GA-Class}} |
The article has attained Good article status.
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Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (although not equalling) the quality of a professional encyclopedia. | 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. | International Space Station (as of February 2007) |
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| B {{B-Class}} |
The article is mostly complete and without major issues, but requires some further work to reach Good Article standards. B-Class articles should meet the six B-Class criteria.
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No reader should be 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, and expert knowledge is increasingly needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should also be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the manual of style and related style guidelines. | Jammu and Kashmir (as of October 2007) |
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| C {{C-Class}} |
The article is substantial, but is still missing important content or contains a lot of irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant issues or require substantial cleanup.
|
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 address cleanup issues. | Exeter Cathedral (as of June 2008) |
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| Start {{Start-Class}} |
An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete and, most notably, lacks adequate reliable sources.
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Provides some meaningful content, but the majority of readers will need more. | Provision of references to reliable sources should be prioritised; the article will also need substantial improvements in content and organisation. | Real analysis (as of November 2006) |
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| Stub {{Stub-Class}} |
A very basic description of the topic.
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Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. | Coffee table book (as of July 2005) |
Importance assessment
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{HistSci}} banner on its talk page:
- {{HistSci| ... | importance=??? | ...}}
| Top |
| High |
| Mid |
| Low |
| ??? |
The following values may be used for importance assessments:
- Top - The article is about one of the core topics of the history of science. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance history of science articles
- High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of the history of science. Adds articles to Category:High-importance history of science articles
- Mid - The article is about a topic within the history of science that may or may not be commonly known outside the scholarly community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance history of science articles
- Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the history of science field and is not generally common knowledge outside the community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance history of science articles
- Unknown - Any article which has not yet been assessed on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance history of science articles.
Importance scale
| Label | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editor's experience | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top | The article is one of the core topics about the history of science. Generally, this is limited to those articles that are are included as sections of the main History of science, History of medicine, and History of technology articles. | A reader who is not involved in the field will have high familiarity with the subject matter (or at least its significance). Only a handful of the broadest articles will be assessed with Top importance. | Articles in this importance range are written in mostly generic terms, leaving technical terms and descriptions for more specialized pages. | Scientific Revolution, History of biology |
| High | The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding the history of science. | Most readers will have some knowledge of the subject (or at least its significance). Famous historical figures and histories of the main scientific disciplines may have High importance. | Articles at this level cover particular issues related to the history of science, specific terms are used to detail the topic. | History of molecular biology, Galileo Galilei |
| Mid | The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in the history of science. | Many readers will be familiar with the topic being discussed, but a larger majority of readers may have only cursory knowledge of the overall subject. Moderately important scientists and histories of subdisciplines will be marked with Mid importance. | Articles at this level will cover subjects that are well known but not so broadly significant as High-importance topics. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles may have more technical terms used in the article text | German nuclear energy project, G. Ledyard Stebbins |
| Low | The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of the history of science. | Few readers outside the field or that are not history of science students may be familiar with the subject matter. It is likely that the reader does not know anything at all about the subject before reading the article. Lesser known scientists, events, and publications might be listed with Low importance. | Articles at this range of importance will often delve into the minutiae of the history of science, or are only tangentially related to the history of science. | An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, "The Correlation Between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance" |
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.
- Prehistoric Medicine: Last assessment was on the 26th January. There have been numerous additions/revisions to the article since then and is now, in my opinion, worthy of more than a 'Start'. MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk) 17:45, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Assessment log
| History of science articles: Index · Statistics · Log |
- The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
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This is a log of operations by a bot. The contents of this page are unlikely to need human editing. In particular, links should not be disambiguated as this is a historical record. |
November 14, 2008
- History of the periodic table reassessed from B-Class (High-Class) to C-Class (High-Class)
- Second Industrial Revolution reassessed from Unassessed-Class (High-Class) to Start-Class (High-Class)
- History of quantum field theory reassessed from Unassessed-Class (Low-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
October 29, 2008
- Sir Robert Muir (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Robert Muir (pathologist)
- Lister Medal (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Rede Lecture (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
October 26, 2008
- Miller-Urey experiment (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to Miller–Urey experiment
- Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) renamed to Abu Rayhan Biruni
- Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
- Hermann Joseph Muller reassessed from B-Class (Mid-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
- Phrenology reassessed from Start-Class (Mid-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
- Theory of heat reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (No-Class)
- Berta Karlik (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Kenneth Ross MacKenzie (talk) Stub-Class (Mid-Class) added.
October 19, 2008
- History of artificial intelligence reassessed from B-Class (Mid-Class) to GA-Class (Mid-Class)
- Female hysteria reassessed from GA-Class (Mid-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
- Müllerian mimicry reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (Low-Class)
October 15, 2008
- Sir Robert Muir (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Development of Darwin's theory (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
October 12, 2008
- Batesian mimicry reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
- Physical Society of London reassessed from Stub-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (Mid-Class)
October 8, 2008
- Rutherford model reassessed from Start-Class (Mid-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
October 5, 2008
- Bohr-Einstein debates (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to Bohr–Einstein debates
- History of Indian Science and Technology (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to History of Indian science and technology
- Richard Feynman reassessed from GA-Class (Mid-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
- Nobel Prize controversies (talk) C-Class (Mid-Class) added.
October 1, 2008
- History of aspirin reassessed from GA-Class (Low-Class) to GA-Class (Mid-Class)
- History of genetics reassessed from B-Class (High-Class) to C-Class (High-Class)
- Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment (talk) C-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- History of chromatography (talk) C-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- History of molecular evolution (talk) C-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Great Phenol Plot (talk) C-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Rollin Hotchkiss (talk) C-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Alfred Hershey (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Emile Zuckerkandl (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Morris Goodman (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Wendell Meredith Stanley (talk) Start-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- Archibald Macallum (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Ernest Baldwin (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Harvey Itano (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- John Buettner-Janusch (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Joseph S. Fruton (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- The Sea Around Us (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
- Equatorial ring (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
- Triquetrum (astronomy) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
September 28, 2008
- (No changes today)
September 26, 2008
- Vulcan (hypothetical planet) reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (No-Class)
September 19, 2008
- (No changes today)
September 15, 2008
- (No changes today)
September 12, 2008
- Thin film memory (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Thin-film memory
- Nikola Tesla reassessed from GA-Class (Mid-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
- Peter Alfred Gorer (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
- Lunar Society Moonstones reassessed from Start-Class (Low-Class) to Unassessed-Class (Low-Class)
September 7, 2008
- Behavioural sciences (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
- Gregor Mendel reassessed from B-Class (Mid-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
September 3, 2008
- Ophthalmology in the Golden Age of Islam (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to Ophthalmology in medieval Islam
- Science in the Golden Age of Islam (talk) C-Class (High-Class) renamed to Science in medieval Islam
- Physics in the Golden Age of Islam (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) renamed to Physics in medieval Islam
- James Watt reassessed from B-Class (High-Class) to C-Class (High-Class)
August 31, 2008
- Islamic astronomy (talk) GA-Class (High-Class) renamed to Astronomy in medieval Islam
- Islamic medicine (talk) B-Class (High-Class) renamed to Medicine in medieval Islam
- Ophthalmology in medieval Islam (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to Ophthalmology in the Golden Age of Islam
- Islamic science (talk) C-Class (High-Class) renamed to Science in the Golden Age of Islam
- Islamic physics (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) renamed to Physics in the Golden Age of Islam
- John von Neumann reassessed from A-Class (High-Class) to B-Class (High-Class)
- Sequence hypothesis (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.
August 24, 2008
- History of electricity (talk) Start-Class (High-Class) renamed to History of electromagnetism
- Centrifugal force (talk) Unassessed-Class (High-Class) renamed to Centrifugal force (rotating reference frame)
- Timeline of electricity (talk) Unassessed-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to Timeline of electromagnetism
August 20, 2008
- (No changes today)
August 13, 2008
- History of medicine reassessed from B-Class (Top-Class) to C-Class (Top-Class)
August 11, 2008
- William Swainson (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) renamed to William John Swainson
- History of timekeeping devices reassessed from FA-Class (Mid-Class) to FA-Class (High-Class)
- Islamic science reassessed from Unassessed-Class (High-Class) to C-Class (High-Class)
- Theodore William Richards reassessed from Unassessed-Class (High-Class) to C-Class (High-Class)
- Prehistoric medicine reassessed from Unassessed-Class (Mid-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
- William Clark (explorer) reassessed from Unassessed-Class (Mid-Class) to C-Class (Mid-Class)
- André-Marie Ampère reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (No-Class)
- Vis viva reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (No-Class)
August 6, 2008
- Industrial Revolution reassessed from B-Class (Mid-Class) to B-Class (Top-Class)
- Technological and industrial history of the United States reassessed from Start-Class (Top-Class) to B-Class (Top-Class)
- Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
August 4, 2008
- History of artificial intelligence reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (Mid-Class)
- Sokal Hoax (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
July 31, 2008
- (No changes today)
July 28, 2008
- History of telescopes (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to History of the telescope
- Science and technology in ancient India (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to History of Indian Science and Technology
- History of evolutionary thought reassessed from GA-Class (High-Class) to FA-Class (High-Class)
- History of Tourette syndrome (talk) B-Class (No-Class) added.
- Myth of the Flat Earth reassessed from Start-Class (High-Class) to Start-Class (Low-Class)
- Prehistoric medicine reassessed from Start-Class (Mid-Class) to Unassessed-Class (Mid-Class)
July 24, 2008
- Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) renamed to Abū Rayhān Bīrūnī
- Agricultural experiment station reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
- Alpheus Hyatt (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
July 21, 2008
- The eclipse of Darwinism (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) renamed to The eclipse of Darwin
- Vitalism (talk) B-Class (No-Class) added.
- Odd sympathy reassessed from Start-Class (Low-Class) to Stub-Class (Low-Class)
- Science in Action (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
- V. C. Wynne-Edwards reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Stub-Class (No-Class)
July 17, 2008
- Islamic science reassessed from B-Class (High-Class) to Unassessed-Class (High-Class)
- William Clark (explorer) reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Unassessed-Class (Mid-Class)
July 14, 2008
- Annus Mirabilis Papers (talk) B-Class (High-Class) renamed to Annus Mirabilis papers
- List of chemical elements by their discovery (talk) Unassessed-Class (Low-Class) renamed to Timeline of chemical elements discoveries
- Chinese constellation (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) renamed to Chinese constellations
- William Lawrence (biologist) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) renamed to Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
- History of timekeeping devices reassessed from GA-Class (Mid-Class) to FA-Class (Mid-Class)
- H-index (talk) B-Class (Mid-Class) added.
- George Biddell Airy reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (No-Class)
- Agnotology reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to Start-Class (Mid-Class)
- Radioactive quackery (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.
- Lists of stars by constellation (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
- Vis viva reassessed from B-Class (No-Class) to Unassessed-Class (No-Class)
July 3, 2008
- List of chemical elements by their discovery reassessed from B-Class (Low-Class) to Unassessed-Class (Low-Class)
June 30, 2008
- Licensing parents (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
- Zhang Heng reassessed from GA-Class (Mid-Class) to FA-Class (Mid-Class)
- Aether theories reassessed from B-Class (High-Class) to B-Class (No-Class)
- Robert Edmond Grant (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) added.
- Chinese constellation (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
- Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
- Traditional Chinese star names (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.
June 27, 2008
- (No changes today)
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