Wikipedia:WikiProject Motorcycling/Assessment

Motorcycling articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FL		1	3	2			6
GA	1	2	1	1		1	6
B	5	21	62	33		10	131
C	11	41	93	316		54	515
Start	5	30	255	1,141		540	1,971
Stub	1	4	64	959		957	1,985
List		5	15	57		29	106
Category					966		966
Disambig					21		21
Template					237		237
NA		6	7	69	449		531
Assessed	23	110	500	2,578	1,673	1,591	6,475
Unassessed				1	1	1,401	1,403
Total	23	110	500	2,579	1,674	2,992	7,878
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 24,230			Ω = 5.26

Welcome to the assessment department of the Motorcycling WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles related to Motorcycling. 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 {{Motorcycling}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Motorcycling articles by quality and Category:Motorcycling 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 the Motorcycling 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

Using the banner

The {{Motorcycling}} project banner template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every motorcycling-related article within the scope of the project. While the template does not require any additional parameters, it has a number of optional ones that add various extra features to the banner to significantly enhance its usefulness. The full syntax is as follows:

{{Motorcycling
|class = 
|importance = 
|image-needed = 
|needs-infobox = 
|listas = 
}}

Quality assessments

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{Motorcycling}} 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 Motorcycling articles)		FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Motorcycling articles)		A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Motorcycling articles)		GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Motorcycling articles)		B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Motorcycling articles)		C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Motorcycling articles)		Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Motorcycling articles)		Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Motorcycling articles)		FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Motorcycling 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 Motorcycling articles)		Category
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class Motorcycling articles)		Disambig
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class Motorcycling articles)		Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Motorcycling articles)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Motorcycling articles)		???

After assessing an article's quality, any comments on the assessment can be added to the article's talk page.

• When a "yes" is inserted in the "image-needed'" parameter the page will be listed in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of motorcycles.

• When a "yes" is inserted in the "infobox-needed'" parameter the page will be listed in Category:Motorcycling articles needing infoboxes.

Quality scale

WikiProject content quality grading scheme

Class	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editing suggestions	Example
FA	The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates. More detailed criteria The article meets the featured article criteria: A featured article exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes. It is: well-written: its prose is engaging and of a professional standard; comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context; well-researched: it is a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature; claims are verifiable against high-quality reliable sources and are supported by inline citations where appropriate; neutral: it presents views fairly and without bias; 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; and compliant with Wikipedia's copyright policy and free of plagiarism or too-close paraphrasing. It follows the style guidelines, including the provision of: a lead: a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections; appropriate structure: a substantial but not overwhelming system of hierarchical section headings; and consistent citations: where required by criterion 1c, consistently formatted inline citations using footnotes—see citing sources for suggestions on formatting references. Citation templates are not required. Media. It has images and other media, where appropriate, with succinct captions and acceptable copyright status. Images follow the image use policy. 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 and uses summary style where appropriate.	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.	Cleopatra (as of June 2018)
FL	The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates. More detailed criteria The article meets the featured list criteria: Prose. It features professional standards of writing. Lead. It has an engaging lead that introduces the subject and defines the scope and inclusion criteria. Comprehensiveness. (a) It comprehensively covers the defined scope, providing at least all of the major items and, where practical, a complete set of items; where appropriate, it has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about the items. (b) statements are sourced where they appear, and they provide inline citations if they contain any of the four kinds of material absolutely required to have citations. (c) In length and/or topic, it meets all of the requirements for stand-alone lists and includes at minimum eight items; does not violate the content-forking guideline, does not largely duplicate material from another article, and could not reasonably be included as part of a related article. 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. (a) Visual appeal. It makes suitable use of text layout, formatting, tables, and colour; and a minimal proportion of items are redlinked. (b) Media files. It has images and other media, if appropriate to the topic, that follow Wikipedia's usage policies, with succinct captions. Non-free images and other media satisfy the criteria for the inclusion of non-free content and are labeled accordingly. (c) Accessibility. It uses proper formating to be accessible to all readers. Bulleted and unbulleted lists and tables are structured correctly. Visual media, if included, utilize alternative (alt) text. 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.	Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items.	No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible.	List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events (as of May 2018)
A	The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria The article meets the A-Class criteria: Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:Article development. 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).	Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting.	Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving. WP:Peer review may help.	Battle of Nam River (as of June 2014)
GA	The article meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria A good article is: Well-written: the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct; and it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation. Verifiable with no original research: it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline; reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose); it contains no original research; and it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism. Broad in its coverage: it addresses the main aspects of the topic; and it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style). Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each. Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute. Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio: media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content; and media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.	Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication.	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.	Discovery of the neutron (as of April 2019)
B	The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations. It has reliable sources, and any important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged is cited. Any format of inline citation is acceptable: the use of <ref> tags and citation templates such as {{cite web}} is optional. 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 does not need to be of the standard of featured articles. The Manual of Style does not need to be followed rigorously. The article contains supporting materials where appropriate. Illustrations are encouraged, though not required. Diagrams, an infobox etc. should be included where they are relevant and useful to the content. The article presents its content in an appropriately understandable way. It is written with as broad an audience in mind as possible. The article should not assume unnecessary technical background and technical terms should be explained or avoided where possible.	Readers are not 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. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines.	Psychology (as of January 2024)
C	The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup. More detailed criteria The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow.	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 solve cleanup problems.	Wing (as of June 2018)
Start	An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following: A useful picture or graphic Multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic A subheading that fully treats an element of the topic Multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article	Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more.	Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use.	Ball (as of September 2014)
Stub	A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria.	Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant.	Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant.	Lineage (anthropology) (as of December 2014)
List	Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list or set index article, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area.	There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader.	Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized.	List of literary movements

Importance assessment

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

{{Motorcycling| ... | importance=??? | ...}}

Top

High

Mid

Low

???

The following values may be used for importance assessments:

• Top - adds articles to Category:Top-importance Motorcycling articles
• High - adds articles to Category:High-importance Motorcycling articles
• Mid - adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Motorcycling articles
• Low - adds articles to Category:Low-importance Motorcycling articles
• Unknown - Any article not rated for importance is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Motorcycling articles.

Importance scale

The assessment team have developed some criteria specific to Motorcycling articles as guidelines for deciding the importance of articles being assessed. Different criteria tables have been created for different topic groups as shown below.

Article importance grading scheme guidelines

Label	Criteria	Motorcycles and manufacturers	Motorcycling biographies	Motorcycle sport	Other topics
Top	High probability that general readers and non-motorcyclists would look this up. Limited to the top 5–10 articles. Must have had a large impact outside of their main discipline, across several generations, and in the majority of the world. Members should not give this rating to any biography without first getting Project approval from the other members.	BMW Motorrad, Harley-Davidson, Motorcycle	Mike Hailwood, Valentino Rossi		Types of motorcycles
High	Must have had a large impact in their main discipline, across a couple of generations. Had some impact outside their own discipline but regarded as very important within the discipline, though perhaps not well known generally.	Honda, Harley-Davidson XR-750	Stanley Woods, Harry Hurt	Enduro, Isle of Man TT	The Motor Cycle (magazine)
Mid	Important in their discipline.	Gas Gas, Öhlins, Suzuki Hayabusa	Sylvester H. Roper, John Britten	Ice speedway, AMA Grand National Championship	Motorcyclist (magazine)
Low	Subject is notable in their main discipline.	Gilera, Ideal Jawa, Honda CB77	Martin Finnegan, Brian Jones (motorcycle designer)	Pocketbike racing	American Iron Magazine, Deals Gap, North Carolina

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.

• Countersteering - The article has been cleaned up. Previously, it appeared more like a discussion forum with users fighting about what countersteering is or isn't.

• Honda CB400T - I have performed a complete rewrite on this article. The old one lacked any citations and strayed off topic without any refs to link back to the subject. It has been expanded because the CB400T moniker applied to a short lived Dream model in the UK and a much longer run of Hawk models in the US.

• Suzuki GSX-RR - This article has been expanded consistently since it's initial evaluation in November 2014. More historical description of the prototype's development, some images and race results were added.

Assessment log

The logs in this section are generated automatically (on an intermittent basis); please do not add entries to them by hand.

November 27, 2024

Reassessed

• Ben Bostrom (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• Taro Sekiguchi (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

November 26, 2024

Reassessed

• 2008 Dutch TT (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• Fredrik Lindgren (speedway rider) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• Yamaha YA-1 (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

November 25, 2024

Reassessed

• Andreas Jonsson (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• Harringay Racers (speedway) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Masahiro Shimizu (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

November 24, 2024

Assessed

• BMW R12 (2024) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

November 22, 2024

Reassessed

• E. J. Potter (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from B-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)