Welcome to the assessment department of the WikiProject on Formula One, which focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Formula One related articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work, and are also expected to play a role in the WP:1.0 programme.
The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{ WikiProject Formula One}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Formula One articles by quality and Category:Formula One articles by importance, which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
An article's assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{ WikiProject Formula One}} project banner on its talk page (see the template page for more details on the exact syntax):
The following values for the class parameter may be used:
The following values for the importance parameter may be used:
Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Formula One articles and articles for which a valid importance is not provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Formula One articles. The class and importance should be assigned according to the quality scale below.
Label | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editor's experience | Example | ||
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FA {{ FA-Class}} |
Reserved exclusively for articles that have received " Featured article" status after peer review, and meet the current criteria for featured articles. | Definitive. Outstanding, thorough article; a great source for encyclopedic information. | No further editing is necessary unless new published information has come to light; but further improvements to the text are often possible. | Brabham (as of July 2015) | ||
GA {{ GA-Class}} |
The article has passed through the Good article nomination process and been granted GA status, meeting the good article standards. This should be used for articles that still need some work to reach featured article standards, but that are otherwise good. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, with a well-written introduction and an appropriate series of headings to break up the content. Good articles that may succeed in FAC should be considered FA-Class articles, but having completed the Good article designation process is not a requirement for FA-Class. | Useful to nearly all readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. May miss a few relevant points. No obvious problems, gaps, excessive information. Adequate for most purposes, but other encyclopedias could do a better job. | Minor edits and adjustments would improve the article, but not necessary for a good reader experience. If the article is not already fully wikified, now is the time. Peer-review would be helpful at this stage, particularly if brought to bear by a subject-matter expert. In particular, issues of breadth, completeness, and balance may need work. | Monaco Grand Prix (as of July 2015) | ||
B {{ B-Class}} |
The article is mostly complete, 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. | Nigel Mansell (as of July 2015) | ||
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.
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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. | Ron Dennis (as of July 2015) | ||
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. | Michael Andretti (as of July 2015) | ||
Stub {{ Stub-Class}} |
The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to bring it to FA-Class level. It is usually very short, but can be of any length if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible. | Possibly useful to someone who has no idea what the term meant. May be useless to a reader only passingly familiar with the term. At best a brief, informed dictionary definition. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. | Fred Agabashian (as of July 2015) |
Label | Criteria | Examples |
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Top | Article is extremely important, even crucial, to its specific field. Reserved for articles that have achieved international notability within its subject or field. | Formula One |
High | Article is extremely notable, but has not achieved international notability, or is only notable within a particular continent. | Damon Hill |
Mid | Article is only notable within its particular field or subject and has achieved notability in a particular place or area. | Argentine Grand Prix |
Low | Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within its field of study. It may only be included to cover a specific part of a notable article. | Simtek |
For some of the more numerous types of articles, the following guidelines have been agreed:
Article type | Top | High | Mid | Low |
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Drivers | Multiple world championships | World champions or 10+ wins or Current driver |
2+ wins or 10+ podiums | Others |
Constructors | Multiple championships | Current constructor or 5+ wins |
1+ wins or 5+ podiums | Others |
Engines and engine manufacturers |
Multiple championships | Current engine/manufacturer or 5+ wins |
1+ wins or 5+ podiums | Others |
Cars | Exceptional historical importance | Championship winner | Race winner | Other |
GPs | Ever-present | Other current | Former/Future | Non-championship only |
Circuits | Exceptional historical importance | Current circuits | Past circuits of current GPs |
Other |
Race reports | Exceptional historical importance (e.g. '50 British, '94 San Marino) |
High historical importance (e.g. 2004 Belgian - Schumacher's 7th title win) |
Some historical importance (title wins, record breakers, first win) |
Other |
Seasons | 1950 and current season | Future seasons only |
Formula One articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | Total | ||
FA | 5 | 8 | 13 | ||||
FL | 3 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 21 | ||
GA | 2 | 9 | 32 | 76 | 119 | ||
B | 24 | 29 | 51 | 92 | 196 | ||
C | 27 | 67 | 116 | 326 | 536 | ||
Start | 11 | 125 | 369 | 1,383 | 1,888 | ||
Stub | 1 | 6 | 126 | 1,345 | 1,478 | ||
List | 10 | 23 | 21 | 1 | 55 | ||
Category | 1 | 718 | 719 | ||||
Disambig | 17 | 17 | |||||
File | 179 | 179 | |||||
Portal | 34 | 34 | |||||
Project | 112 | 112 | |||||
Redirect | 1 | 11 | 2,134 | 2,146 | |||
Template | 337 | 337 | |||||
Other | 5 | 5 | |||||
Assessed | 68 | 258 | 728 | 3,264 | 3,537 | 7,855 | |
Total | 68 | 258 | 728 | 3,264 | 3,537 | 7,855 | |
WikiWork factors ( ?) | ω = 21,278 | Ω = 5.03 |
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. If you are interested in more extensive comments on an article, please use Wikipedia:Peer review instead.
The full log of assessment changes for the past seven days can be viewed here: