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U.S. Congress articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 1 | 9 | 30 | 28 | 5 | 73 | |
FL | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |||
GA | 2 | 24 | 34 | 52 | 43 | 155 | |
B | 8 | 91 | 183 | 491 | 165 | 938 | |
C | 7 | 73 | 246 | 1,031 | 540 | 1,897 | |
Start | 4 | 43 | 343 | 3,092 | 1 | 5,872 | 9,355 |
Stub | 2 | 7 | 77 | 1,326 | 3,284 | 4,696 | |
List | 7 | 83 | 105 | 649 | 2 | 293 | 1,139 |
Category | 2 | 4 | 20 | 63 | 1,511 | 1,600 | |
Disambig | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
File | 1 | 78 | 79 | ||||
Project | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 13 | ||
Template | 8 | 35 | 12 | 2,308 | 2,363 | ||
NA | 1 | 4 | 7 | 86 | 316 | 414 | |
Other | 14 | 14 | |||||
Assessed | 34 | 349 | 1,084 | 6,838 | 4,235 | 10,205 | 22,745 |
Total | 34 | 349 | 1,084 | 6,838 | 4,235 | 10,205 | 22,745 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 85,649 | Ω = 5.01 |
How you can help |
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1. Assess articles that are currently unassessed. You'll find them at |
2. Place {{WikiProject U.S. Congress}} on the talk page of articles that don't already have it. And when you do, please complete the assessment. |
Welcome to the assessment department of the U.S. Congress WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's United States Congress-related articles, using {{WikiProject U.S. Congress}} . 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 U.S. Congress}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of:
- Category:U.S. Congress articles by quality
- Category:U.S. Congress articles by importance, and
- Category:WikiProject U.S. Congress,
which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
The final status box is generated automatically by a bot or manually by this web form.
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 Congress 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.
Quality assessment
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject U.S. Congress}} project banner on its talk page: {{WikiProject U.S. Congress|class=???}}
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 U.S. Congress articles) | FA | |
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class U.S. Congress articles) | A | |
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class U.S. Congress articles) | GA | |
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class U.S. Congress articles) | B | |
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class U.S. Congress articles) | C | |
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class U.S. Congress articles) | Start | |
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class U.S. Congress articles) | Stub | |
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class U.S. Congress articles) | FL | |
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class U.S. Congress 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 U.S. Congress articles) | Category | |
Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds pages to Category:Disambig-Class U.S. Congress articles) | Disambig | |
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class U.S. Congress articles) | Draft | |
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class U.S. Congress articles) | File | |
Portal (for portal pages; adds pages to Category:Portal-Class U.S. Congress articles) | Portal | |
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class U.S. Congress articles) | Project | |
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class U.S. Congress articles) | Template | |
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class U.S. Congress articles) | NA | |
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed U.S. Congress articles) | ??? |
Quality scale
Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed U.S. Congress articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below:
Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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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.
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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. | 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:
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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: |
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:
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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
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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:
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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 {{WikiProject U.S. Congress}} project banner on its talk page:
{{WikiProject U.S. Congress|importance=???}}
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 U.S. Congress articles) | Top | |
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance U.S. Congress articles) | High | |
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance U.S. Congress articles) | Mid | |
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance U.S. Congress articles) | Low | |
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance U.S. Congress articles) | NA | |
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance U.S. Congress articles) | ??? |
Importance scale
Label | Criteria | Examples |
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Top | Core topics about Congress. Generally, these topics are sub-articles of the main United States Congress article, vital for the understanding of Congress or extremely notable to people outside of the United States. This category should stay limited to approximately 100 members. Biographies should be limited to the top one or two members of Congress in a particular field or persons of the greatest historical importance | Ted Stevens |
High | Topics that are very notable within Congress, and well-known outside of it, and can be reasonably expected to be included in any print encyclopedia. | Mitch McConnell |
Mid | Topics that are reasonably notable on a national level within Congress without necessarily being famous or very notable internationally | Ron Wyden |
Low | Topics of mostly low-level interest or those that are only included for complete coverage or as examples of a higher-level topic; peripheral or trivial topics or topics that have only a limited connection to Congress | John Thune |
Subject assessment
When applying the {{WikiProject U.S. Congress}} template, editors ought to add a subject. This subject will put that article in a corresponding category as follows:
{{WikiProject U.S. Congress | subject=}}
Subject | Category |
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person | Category:WikiProject U.S. Congress persons |
place | Category:WikiProject U.S. Congress places |
thing | Category:WikiProject U.S. Congress things |
event | Category:WikiProject U.S. Congress events |
Requesting an assessment
If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, list it below.
Assessments to do
- U.S. House Fiscal Year 2014 Budget (H. Con. Res. 25; 113th Congress) - Article needs assessment. HistoricMN44 (talk) 19:33, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Senate Fiscal Year 2014 Budget (S.Con.Res 8; 113th Congress) - Article needs assessment. HistoricMN44 (talk) 19:33, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Most of the Represenative bios need review for puff and PR language. Discussing how to frame this at User:Sj/Update_Congress. – SJ + 22:37, 28 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- National Security Act of 1947 – I added significant improvements, so article needs assessment. -- Emilycs4970 (talk) 21:37, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- John Lewis Voting Rights Act - Article needs assessment. -- aaronneallucas (talk) 00:34, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Assessments done
- Overman Committee User:Bsimmons666 - I created this article off of the requested articles page and have added to it significantly. Plenty of sources from old newspaper archives I've dug through, and some book resources from google books. Like User:Therefore above me, I believe it is ready to be graded.
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2010 User:CylonCAG - We've significantly changed the article since we were last assessed. I think it should be given another look.
- Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution --ClemsonChuck (talk) 05:14, 9 July 2009 (UTC) - This page has not yet received any assessments. I've made significant improvements to the section concerning Court Rulings with the correct legal citations. It details the different of opinions on how significantly this Amendment should effect the distribution of power between Congress and the states when it comes to making laws concerning alcohol. Luckily, unlike other parts of the Constitution, this Amendment has produced a history of Supreme Court decisions which is long enough to provide meaningful interpretation, but not so long that it becomes the subject of its own legal practice or law school curriculum.[reply]
- John Jenrette- upgraded to Start-class --TommyBoy (talk) 20:22, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Stephen Lynch (politician)- Article was previously assessed as GA-class by another user. --TommyBoy (talk) 20:22, 4 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Peter T. King, Stephen Fincher, and Quico Canseco articles have been assessed. --TommyBoy (talk) 03:09, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Champ Clark - Article assessed as Stub. --TommyBoy (talk) 06:57, 22 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Tim Penny - Article assessed as Start-class by another user. --TommyBoy (talk) 20:23, 14 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Nicholas Mavroules - Upgraded to Start-class. --TommyBoy (talk) 17:07, 22 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Bill Nelson - Upgraded to C-class --TommyBoy (talk) 04:30, 20 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Rick Crawford (politician) - Upgraded to Start-classs --TommyBoy (talk) 23:32, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Tulsi Gabbard: I significantly improved this article and tried my hand at initially assessing it. I'm not too sure about its importance, because Gabbard has drawn international attention (especially from India) because she'll be the first Hindu Congresswoman, but other than that she's more of domestic interest. Sumana Harihareswara 18:11, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Done Assessed as "B-Class; Mid-Importance; Person"—GoldRingChip 02:04, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Request an assessment on Rape and pregnancy controversies in United States elections, 2012. Article has been rewritten and is basically a new article.Casprings (talk) 03:21, 29 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Done Assessed as "C-Class; Low-Importance; Events"—GoldRingChip 02:04, 27 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Tim Wirth - Assessed as Start-class. --TommyBoy (talk) 04:12, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Debbie Dingell - Upgraded to C-class. --TommyBoy (talk) 22:10, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Frank J. Larkin - Assessed as Stub. --TommyBoy (talk) 23:23, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- John Salazar - Assessed as Start-class. --TommyBoy (talk) 23:23, 12 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- United States Congress Joint Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies - Assessed as Start-class.--TommyBoy (talk) 01:18, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Lyman K. Bass - Upgraded to Start-class.--TommyBoy (talk) 01:18, 18 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
General rules
- Ordinal Congresses (1st Congress … 112 Congress) should be assessed:
- class=list | importance=high | subject=event.
Assessment log
October 1, 2024
Renamed
- 2024 United States Senate election in California renamed to 2024 United States Senate elections in California.
Reassessed
- Template:Congressional Delegation (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Mid-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Template:Current U.S. senators (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from High-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Dutch Ruppersberger (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from B-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- United States House Committee on Science and Technology (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Mid-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
- WP:WikiProject U.S. Congress/Ordinal congresses (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from High-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- 2024 United States Senate elections in California (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Blue Dog Coalition (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Category:Candidates in the 2024 United States Senate elections (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
September 30, 2024
Renamed
- Draft:2023–24 House of Representatives legislative coalition renamed to 2023–24 U.S. House legislative coalition.
Reassessed
- Hare–Hawes–Cutting Act (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- List of current members of the U.S. House of Representatives (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Low-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Political positions of Kamala Harris (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- 2023–24 U.S. House legislative coalition (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
September 29, 2024
Reassessed
- The Treason of the Senate (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- William H. Stevenson (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- William Van Pelt (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
September 28, 2024
Reassessed
- Anthony Higgins (politician) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from B-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
September 26, 2024
Reassessed
- Thomas O'Malley (congressman) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Toby Roth (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
September 25, 2024
Reassessed
- Anthony D'Esposito (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)