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Welcome to the assessment department of the Holidays WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Holidays related articles. 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 {{WikiProject Holidays}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Holidays articles by quality and Category:Holidays articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Contents 1 Frequently asked questions 2 Instructions 2.1 Quality assessments 2.2 Quality scale 2.3 Importance assessment 2.4 Importance scale 2.5 Requesting an assessment 3 Assessment log 3.1 November 14, 2008 3.2 October 29, 2008 3.3 October 26, 2008 3.4 October 19, 2008 3.5 October 15, 2008 3.6 October 12, 2008 3.7 October 8, 2008 3.8 October 5, 2008 3.9 October 1, 2008 3.10 September 28, 2008 3.11 September 26, 2008 3.12 September 19, 2008 3.13 September 15, 2008 3.14 September 12, 2008 3.15 September 7, 2008 3.16 September 3, 2008 3.17 August 31, 2008 3.18 August 24, 2008 3.19 August 20, 2008 3.20 August 13, 2008 3.21 August 11, 2008 3.22 August 6, 2008 3.23 August 4, 2008 3.24 July 31, 2008 3.25 July 28, 2008 3.26 July 24, 2008 3.27 July 21, 2008 3.28 July 17, 2008 3.29 July 14, 2008 3.30 July 3, 2008 3.31 June 30, 2008 3.32 June 27, 2008

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 the Holidays WikiProject 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 {{WikiProject Holidays}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Holidays| ... | 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 Holidays articles)
• A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Holidays articles)
• GA (adds articles to Category:GA-Class Holidays articles)
• B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Holidays articles)
• Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Holidays articles)
• Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Holidays 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 Holidays 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 Holidays articles)
• Dab or Disambig (for disambiguation pages; add pages to Category:Disambig-Class Holidays articles)
• Cat or Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class Holidays articles)
• NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:Non-article Holidays pages)

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed-Class Holidays 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:Holidays 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

WikiProject article progress grading scheme [  v • d • e  ]

Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editing suggestions	Example
FA {{FA-Class}}	The article has attained Featured article status. More detailed criteria The article must meet the featured article criteria: A featured article exemplifies our very best work and features professional standards of writing and presentation. In addition to meeting the requirements for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes. It is— (a) well-written: its prose is engaging, even brilliant, and of a professional standard; (b) comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details; (c) factually accurate: claims are verifiable against reliable sources, accurately represent the relevant body of published knowledge, and are supported with specific evidence and external citations; this requires a "References" section in which sources are listed, complemented by inline citations where appropriate; (d) neutral: it presents views fairly and without bias; and (e) 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. It follows the style guidelines, including the provision of: (a) a lead—a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections; (b) appropriate structure—a system of hierarchical headings and a substantial but not overwhelming table of contents (see section help); and (c) consistent citations—where required by Criterion 1c, consistently formatted inline citations using either footnotes1 or Harvard referencing (Smith 2007, p. 1) (see citing sources for suggestions on formatting references; for articles with footnotes, the meta:cite format is recommended). Images. It has images and other media where appropriate, with succinct captions and acceptable copyright status. 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 (see summary style).	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)
FL {{FL-Class}}	The article has attained Featured list status. More detailed criteria The article must meet the featured list criteria: Prose. It features professional standards of writing. Lead. It has an engaging lead section that introduces the subject, and defines the scope and inclusion criteria of the list. Comprehensiveness. It comprehensively covers the defined scope, providing a complete set of items where practical, or otherwise at least all of the major items; where appropriate, it has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about entries. 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. Visual appeal. It makes suitable use of text layout, formatting, tables, and colour; it has images if they are appropriate to the subject, with succinct captions or "alt" text; and it has a minimal proportion of red links. 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.			FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives (as of January 2008)
A {{A-Class}}	The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been reviewed by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. More detailed criteria Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:How to write a great article. 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, WikiProject Films).	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)
GA {{GA-Class}}	The article has attained Good article status. More detailed criteria The article must meet the good article criteria: Well written: (a) the prose is clear and the spelling and grammar are correct; and (b) it complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, jargon, words to avoid, fiction, and list incorporation. Factually accurate and verifiable: (a) it provides references to all sources of information, and at minimum contains a section dedicated to the attribution of those sources in accordance with the guide to layout; (b) at minimum, it provides in-line citations from reliable sources for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons; and (c) it contains no original research. Broad in its coverage: (a) it addresses the main aspects of the topic; and (b) it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style). Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without bias. Stable: it does not change significantly from day-to-day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute. Illustrated, if possible, by images: (a) images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content; and (b) images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.	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)
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. More detailed criteria Shortcuts: WP:WIABCA WP:BCLASS WP:1.0/B The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations where necessary. It has reliable sources, and any important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged is cited. The use of citation templates such as {{cite web}} is not required, but the use of <ref></ref> tags is encouraged. 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 it certainly need not be "brilliant". The Manual of Style need not be followed rigorously. The article contains supporting materials where appropriate. Illustrations are encouraged, though not required. Diagrams and an infobox etc. should be included where they are relevant and useful to the content. The article presents its content in an appropriately accessible way. It is written with as broad an audience in mind as possible. Although Wikipedia is more than just a general encyclopedia, the article should not assume unnecessary technical background and technical terms should be explained or avoided where possible.	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)
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. More detailed criteria The article is better developed in style, structure and quality than Start-Class, but fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements; need editing for clarity, balance or flow; or contain policy violations such as bias or original research. Articles on fictional topics are likely to be marked as C-Class if they are written from an in-universe perspective.	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)
Start {{Start-Class}}	An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete and, most notably, lacks adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria The article has a usable amount of good content, but it is weak in many areas, usually in referencing. Quality of the prose may be distinctly unencyclopedic, and MoS compliance non-existent; but the article should satisfy fundamental content policies such as notability and BLP, and provide enough sources to establish verifiability. No Start-Class article should be in any danger of being speedily deleted.	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)
Stub {{Stub-Class}}	A very basic description of the topic. More detailed criteria The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to become a meaningful article. It is usually very short, but can be of any length if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible.	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 {{WikiProject Holidays}} banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Holidays| ... | 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 holidays. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance Holidays articles
• High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of holidays. Adds articles to Category:High-importance Holidays articles
• Mid - The article is about a topic within the holidays field that may or may not be commonly known outside the holidays community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Holidays articles
• Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the holidays field and is not generally common knowledge outside the holidays community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance Holidays articles
• Unknown - articles which have not been assigned a specific importance ranking are automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Holidays articles.

Importance scale

Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editor's experience	Example
Top	The article is one of the core topics about holidays.	A reader who is not involved in the field of holidays will have high familiarity with the subject matter and should be able to relate to the topic easily.	Articles in this importance range are written in mostly generic terms, leaving technical terms and descriptions for more specialized pages.	Holidays
High	The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding holidays.
Mid	The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in the history of holidays.	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.	Articles at this level will cover subjects that are well known but not necessarily vital to understand religion, such as specific aspects of holidays. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text. Most people involved in holidays will be rated in this level.
Low	The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of holidays.	Few readers outside the holidays field or that are not adherents to the specific faith 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.	Articles at this range of importance will often delve into the minutiae of holidays, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed. Topics included at this level include most practices and infrastructure of Holidays.

Given the number and variety of articles with which this project shall be dealing, I believe that we should devote a good deal of attention in the short run to determining which of the articles we consider to be of greatest importance to the project. We now have a page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Holidays/Assessment/Top-importance articles where we can discuss which articles should receive top-importance ranking. Any and all input is more than welcome.

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.

French Community Holiday

Day of the Flemish Community

Little Christmas

Darwin Day

Assessment log

Holidays 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.

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

• Federal holiday (talk) Start-Class (Top-Class) renamed to Federal holidays in the United States
• African Liberation Day (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Blue Monday (date) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• British Christmas Tree Growers Association (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Buy Nothing Day (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Chaharshanbe Suri (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Children's Day (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Christmas controversy (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Christmas lights (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Christmas tree production (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Christmas tree production in Canada (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Cyber Monday (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Darwin Day (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Day of the Flemish Community (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Evolution Day (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Feliz Navidad (song) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• French Community Holiday (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Fukubukuro (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• German-American Day (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• German-American Steuben Parade (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Hogmanay (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• International Talk Like a Pirate Day (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• International Women's Day (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Japanese New Year (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• King cake (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• List of Hindu festivals (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Little Christmas (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Meal Monday (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• New Year's Eve (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Nochebuena (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Oktoberfest (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Paas (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Public holidays in Benin (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Public holidays in Burkina Faso (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Public holidays in Cameroon (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Public holidays in Cape Verde (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Public holidays in Ghana (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Public holidays in Mali (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Public holidays in Niger (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Public holidays in The Gambia (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Public holidays in the Central African Republic (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Respect for the Aged Day (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Santa Baby (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Sapporo Snow Festival (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Thanksgiving (United States) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Toso (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Von Steuben Day (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• White Christmas (film) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• White Christmas (song) (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• World Laughter Day (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• World Population Day (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Xmas (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) removed.
• Jack-o'-lantern reassessed from Unassessed-Class (No-Class) to C-Class (No-Class)
• Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

October 29, 2008

(No changes today)

October 26, 2008

(No changes today)

October 19, 2008

(No changes today)

October 15, 2008

(No changes today)

October 12, 2008

(No changes today)

October 8, 2008

(No changes today)

October 5, 2008

(No changes today)

October 1, 2008

• Rosh Hashanah reassessed from Start-Class (No-Class) to B-Class (No-Class)

September 28, 2008

• Flooding of the Nile (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) removed.

September 26, 2008

• Star of Bethlehem (talk) B-Class (High-Class) added.

September 19, 2008

(No changes today)

September 15, 2008

• Respect for the Aged Day (talk) Unassessed-Class (No-Class) added.

September 12, 2008

(No changes today)

September 7, 2008

• Posadas (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) renamed to Las Posadas

September 3, 2008

(No changes today)

August 31, 2008

(No changes today)

August 24, 2008

(No changes today)

August 20, 2008

(No changes today)

August 13, 2008

• National Cancer Survivors Day (talk) Start-Class (Low-Class) added.

August 11, 2008

(No changes today)

August 6, 2008

(No changes today)

August 4, 2008

(No changes today)

July 31, 2008

(No changes today)

July 28, 2008

(No changes today)

July 24, 2008

(No changes today)

July 21, 2008

(No changes today)

July 17, 2008

(No changes today)

July 14, 2008

(No changes today)

July 3, 2008

• Transfer Day (talk) Stub-Class (No-Class) added.

June 30, 2008

• Fête nationale du Québec (talk) Start-Class (No-Class) renamed to Fête nationale du Québec (Saint Jean Baptiste Day)

June 27, 2008

(No changes today)

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