Wikipedia:WikiProject National Football League/Pittsburgh Steelers subproject/Article Classification

This is the assessment department for the Pittsburgh Steelers WikiProject. This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia articles relating to the Pittsburgh Steelers football team. 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 Pittsburgh Steelers}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Pittsburgh Steelers articles by quality and Category:Pittsburgh Steelers articles by importance.

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An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Pittsburgh Steelers}} banner on its talk page. As a member of this subproject, you can rate articles within our scope.

Usage

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Please note: This template should be transcluded ({{WikiProject Pittsburgh Steelers}}) and not substituted (subst) because it employs conditional code. Transclusion also allows easy updating of all the project's talk pages without having to edit thousands of pages.

The simplified format for this WikiProject template should look like this:

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Field descriptions

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class
Options are FA (Featured Article), FL (Featured List), A, GA (Good Article), B, C, Start, Stub, List, Category, Disambig, File, Portal, Project, Redirect, Template and NA (Not Available). If blank, this will default as Unassessed.
Descriptions of the options can be found here.
importance
Options are Top, High, Mid, Low, and NA (non-article). If blank, this will default as Unknown importance.
Descriptions of the options can be found here.

Importance scale

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Pittsburgh Steelers WikiProject article importance grading scheme
Label Criteria Reader's experience Editor's experience Examples
Top General articles:
Reserved exclusively for articles that are vital to the understanding of the Pittsburgh Steelers franchise. This should include any articles or lists on the general topic of the franchise, articles on individual seasons and articles that cover topics that are central to the history of the franchise.
These will be the most likely reader entry points to the subject. If articles covering these subjects did not exist, they would need to be created. Pittsburgh Steelers (franchise article), 2010 Pittsburgh Steelers season, List of Pittsburgh Steelers players
Biographic articles:
Reserved exclusively for biographic articles covering persons who are vital to the understanding of the Pittsburgh Steelers franchise. This will include articles on all head coaches and particularly noteworthy players (e.g. any Hall of Famers, members of the All-Time team and players named to multiple All-Pro teams or Pro Bowls) and any assistant coaches, team owners or other personnel who are central to the team's history.
Art Rooney, Chuck Noll, Terry Bradshaw, "Mean" Joe Greene, Rod Woodson
High General articles:
Articles that fall just short of being vital in the understanding of the subject as a whole.
Most readers would quickly notice the omission of any of these articles. These articles are probably among the most actively edited articles in the project. History of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Steagles
Biographic articles:
This classification should include articles on players who were very good (but perhaps not multi-year All-Pros), those who were multiple-year starters for the team as well as players or coaches who had long tenures with the team.
Ernie Holmes, Mark Malone, Glen "Pine" Edwards, coach Bud Carson
Mid General articles:
The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in a thorough understanding of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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 the subject. List of Pittsburgh Steelers starting quarterbacks, Browns–Steelers rivalry
Biographic articles:
This should include "journeyman" players who made contributions for only a short period of time (i.e. less than three seasons of service), who were with the team for a number of years but primarily served in a back-up role or higher profile players whose primary contributions were not as Steelers. This category should also include most
Joe Gilliam, Terry Hanratty, Bam Morris, Troy Edwards, Jim Clack, Mike Vrabel, coach Larry Zierlein
Low General articles:
The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of the topic, but may cover topics directly or indirectly related to it.
Few readers outside of the topic area 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 the franchise. Pittsburgh Steelerettes, Fighting Back: The Rocky Bleier Story
Biographic articles:
This should include players who made only minor contributions to the team or none at all (e.g. draft choices who never made the roster, players who played less than one full season).
Carey Davis, A. Q. Shipley, Reggie Harrison
Unknown The importance of this article has not yet been assessed. Editors should assess this article and add their assessment of its importance to the subject to the Pittsburgh Steelers project template on the article's talk page. List of such articles

Quality scale

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