Wikipedia:WikiProject Buses/Assessment

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

See also the general assessment FAQ

1. What is the purpose of the article ratings?

The rating system allows the project to monitor the quality of articles in our subject areas, and to prioritize work on these articles. It is also utilized by the Wikipedia 1.0 program to prepare for static releases of Wikipedia content. Please note, however, that these ratings are primarily intended for the internal use of the project, and do not necessarily imply any official standing within Wikipedia as a whole.

2. How do I add an article to the WikiProject?

Just add {{WikiProject Buses}} to the talk page; there's no need to do anything else.

3. Someone put a {{WikiProject Buses}} template on an article, but it doesn't seem to be within the project's scope. What should I do?

Because of the large number of articles we deal with, we occasionally make mistakes and add tags to articles that shouldn't have them. If you notice one, feel free to remove the tag, and optionally leave a note on the project talk page (or directly with the person who tagged the article).

4. Who can assess articles?

Any member of WikiProject Buses is free to add—or change—the rating of an article. Editors who are not participants in this project are also welcome to assess articles, but should defer to consensus within the project in case of procedural disputes.

5. How do I rate an article?

Check the quality scale and select the level that best matches the state of the article; then, follow the instructions below to add the rating to the project banner on the article's talk page. Please note that some of the available levels have an associated formal review process; this is documented in the assessment scale.

6. 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.

7. 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. Please note that some of the available levels have an associated formal review process; this is documented in the assessment scale.

8. Aren't the ratings subjective?

Yes, they are somewhat subjective, 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!

9. What if I have a question not listed here?

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department; for any other issues, you can go to the main project discussion page.

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Buses}} 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 bus transport articles)		FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class bus transport articles)		A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class bus transport articles)		GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class bus transport articles)		B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class bus transport articles)		C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class bus transport articles)		Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class bus transport articles)		Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class bus transport articles)		FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class bus transport 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 bus transport pages)		Category
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class bus transport pages)		Disambig
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class bus transport pages)		Draft
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class bus transport pages)		File
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class bus transport pages)		Portal
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class bus transport pages)		Project
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class bus transport pages)		Redirect
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class bus transport pages)		Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class bus transport pages)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed bus transport articles)		???

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

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

The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of buses.

Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.

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.

The following were not yet rated:

1. There are currently no articles here that need rating, but please feel free to rate any of these articles. Add to this list as you see fit.

The following are listed for re-rating:

• Bus Services Act 2017 - Article has been expanded since last rating
• Bus rapid transit in Montreal - Article has been thoroughly rewritten and expanded
• Memphis Area Transit Authority - Article has been significantly expanded
• City Line (Spokane, Washington) - Article has been significantly expanded, cited, with graphics and infoboxes added since its last rating 3 years ago.

The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.

Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.

• Yishun Bus Interchange renamed to Yishun bus interchange.

• WeGo Public Transit (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)

• Yishun bus interchange (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Barkas (van manufacturer) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)

• Grayson Thermal Systems (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Draft:Greater Manchester bus route 216 (talk) removed.

• Kalmar Länstrafik (KLT) renamed to Kalmar länstrafik.

• Groupe Galland (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Kalmar länstrafik (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• StarTran (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Draft:Black Cat bus route (talk) removed.

• 2019 Westboro station bus crash (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Low-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)

• Hillsboro Central/Southeast 3rd Avenue Transit Center renamed to Hillsboro Transit Center.
• Willow Creek/Southwest 185th Avenue Transit Center renamed to Willow Creek Transit Center.

• Trolleybuses in Gdynia (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

• Hillsboro Transit Center (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as GA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Willow Creek Transit Center (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as GA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)