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Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Films! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Film articles. 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 {{Film}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Film articles by quality, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

1 Frequently asked questions
2 Instructions
- 2.1 Quality scale
- 2.2 Core articles
3 Requests for assessment
4 Statistics
- 4.1 Overall project
- 4.2 Statistics by task force
5 Assessment log
6 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 Film WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article.
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

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

{{Film
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Quality scale

This category contains film articles graded according to the Wikipedia 1.0 Assessment Scale. If you would like to help grade them, please visit Category:Unassessed film articles.

Do not put items in this category. Put them in the appropriate category by adding or editing the film's {{Film}} Talk page tag, as follows:

{{Film|class=FA}}
{{Film|class=A}}
{{Film|class=GA}}
{{Film|class=B}}
{{Film|class=Start}}
{{Film|class=Stub}}
{{Film|class=NA}}
{{Film|class=FL}}
{{Film|class=List}}
{{Film|class=Cat}}
{{Film|class=Template}}
{{Film|class=Disambig}}

Exclusive class for this project only are:

{{Film|class=Future}} - For Future films

Note: You should not assign any article GA, A, or FA grades arbitrarily. These grades must pass through these processes first for approval:

These labels refer to this grading scheme:

**WikiProject Film article progress grading scheme** **[ v • d • e ]**
Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editing suggestions	Example
FA {{FA-Class}}	Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status after community review, and meet the current criteria for featured articles.	Definitive. Outstanding, thorough article; a great source for encyclopedic information.	No further editing necessary, unless new published information has come to light.	Mulholland Drive (film) (as of May 2008)
FL {{FL-Class}}	Reserved exclusively for list articles that have received "Featured list" status after community review, and meet the current criteria for featured lists.			Woody Allen filmography (as of July 2008)
A {{A-Class}}	The article has passed through an A-class review, and surpasses good article criteria but is not yet ready for featured article. Provides a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a great article. 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. It should have sufficient external literature references, preferably from the "hard" (peer-reviewed where appropriate) literature rather than websites. Should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. At the stage where it could at least be considered for featured article status, corresponds to the "Wikipedia 1.0" standard.	Very useful to 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.	Minor edits and adjustments would improve the article, particularly if brought to bear by a subject-matter expert. In particular, issues of breadth, completeness, and balance may need work. Peer-review would be helpful at this stage.	Little Miss Sunshine (as of August 2008)
GA {{GA-Class}}	Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Good Article" status, having met the good article criteria and successfully passed through the good article nomination process.	Useful to nearly all readers. A good treatment of the subject. No obvious problems, gaps, excessive information. Adequate for most purposes, but other encyclopedias could do a better job.	Some editing will clearly be helpful, but not necessary for a good reader experience. If the article is not already fully wikified, now is the time.	Catch Me if You Can (as of July 2008)
B {{B-Class}}	The article meets the following criteria: It is suitably referenced, and all major points are appropriately cited. It reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain major omissions or inaccuracies. It has a defined structure, including a lead section and one or more sections of content. It is free from major grammatical errors. It contains appropriate supporting materials, such as an infobox, images, or diagrams.	Useful to many, but not all, readers. A casual reader flipping through articles would feel that they generally understood the topic, but a serious student or researcher trying to use the material would have trouble doing so, or would risk error in derivative work.	Considerable editing is still needed, including filling in some important gaps or correcting significant policy errors. Articles for which cleanup is needed will typically have this designation to start with.	A Scanner Darkly (film) (as of July 2008)
C {{C-Class}}	C-Class was adopted by the 1.0 Assessment Team in June 2008, but the option of implementing C-Class was left to individual projects. A discussion among our project's contributors resulted in a consensus not to adopt C-Class in this grading scheme. C-Class is listed here for illustrative purposes only, and should not be used to assess an article within the scope of WikiProject Films. The {{Film}} template will not display or support the class. All articles must be assessed either as Start-Class or B-Class.
Start {{Start-Class}}	The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas, and may lack some key elements. Has at least one serious element of gathered materials, including any one of the following: A particularly 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.	Useful to some; provides a moderate amount of information, but many readers will need to find additional sources of information. The article clearly needs to be expanded.	Substantial/major editing is needed, and much of the material required for a complete article still needs to be added. Provision of references to reliable sources should be prioritised.	Scream 2 (as of July 2008)
Stub {{Stub-Class}}	The article is either very short or a rough collection of information, and will need much work to achieve "Featured" status. It is usually very short, but can be of any length if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible.	Possibly useful to someone unfamiliar with the subject, and may be useless to a reader only passingly familiar with the subject. At best a brief, informed dictionary definition.	Any editing or additional material can be helpful.	Nirvana (film) (as of July 2008)
List {{List-Class}}	Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list, 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.	2008 in film (as of July 2008)
Future {{Future-Class}}	Used exclusively for articles of films that have not yet been released, but which meet the WP:NFF criteria. The article may be of variable length or quality, but significant components such as critical reception and box office data will not yet be known. The content of such articles may be subject to rapid change, making regular assessment unreliable. Should not be used for redirects.	May be useful, depending on quality and depth of coverage. The article should receive more attention as the film approaches its supposed release date, and details may be subject to change.	The article should be tagged with {{Future film}}, and will require updates as new information becomes available. See the Future films department for further support.	Avatar (film) (as of July 2008)
Additional grades for non-article pages
Disambig {{Disambig-Class}}	Is any film-related disambiguation page.			Camille (film)
Category {{Category-Class}}	Is any film-related category.			Category:Films by genre
Template {{Template-Class}}	Is any type of film-related template.			{{Infobox Film}}
NA {{NA-Class}}	Is any type of film-related page that fits no other classification.			WP:FILMS

Core articles

In lieu of a moribund importance rating, the project has deprecated the importance parameter in favor of a targeted drive towards "core"-type articles as determined by consensus in external lists and polls rather than individual editorial whim. This work is concentrated at the Core department of this WikiProject.

Requests for 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. (Note that this is not required; any editor may assess or re-assess an article on their own, if acting in good faith.)

If you assess an article, please strike it off so that other editors will not waste time going there too. Comments are not mandatory and any should be left at the article's talk page; the list below will be wiped periodically.

Adventures of Captain Marvel - I have rated it as Start-class but I think it might actually be good enough for a B-class. I've never rated anything as B-class, however, so I could use someone else's opinion. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 16:43, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
José Mojica Marins filmography created, req. assessment. Mjpresson (talk) 02:37, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
Add new requests above this line

If you are interested in more extensive comments on an article, please list it for peer review instead.

Statistics

Overall project

Film articles		Importance
Film articles		None	Total
Quality
	FA	72	72
	FL	23	23
	GA	221	221
	B	248	248
	Start	9256	9256
	Stub	32328	32328
	List	3981	3981
	Assessed	46129	46129
	Unassessed	16	16
	Total	46145	46145