Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Trains/Assessment

message: I've been putting off reassessing both List of London railway stations and List of closed railway stations in London mostly because I'm unsure of how to assess them as articles.  In the past, I've assigned NA class to pure list articles because they are lists.  However, the inclusion of these two lists specifically in the requests for assessment section here would indicate that other editors disagree with that idea.  So the question comes down to how do we assess lists on the quality scale?  Looking at Template talk:Grading scheme, I don't see any further guidance there, and the closest there is to a grading scheme for lists would be the Featured List criteria (and so far, there is only one rail transport list at featured status: List of London Underground stations).  Featured lists don't have a few of the requirements of Featured articles (like well-written prose), but how do lists that aren't Featured fit into the grading scheme?  Slambo (Speak) 14:47, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessing list articles 

message: Hi!
WikiProject UK Trams now has it's own assessment department, and I was wondering if we could have some help getting it up-and-running?
Also, we would like second opinions on most of the articles already assessed, aswell as help from you guys to get some of our articles up to GA/A/FA, and to do some updates to our talk page banner with regards to assessments. Thanks! Bluegoblin7 10:29, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:TUK]] 

message: I found that after writing the article on Islip (LIRR station), it was almost instantly given a "B" rating. Though I'm flattered, I've written scores of Long Island Rail Road-related articles, and never had such a high rating for any of them. What did I do right? ---- DanTD 04:22, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just downed it to start. IMHO "B" is for start articles that are getting longer (ie with quality text not just lists, etc) , and has some refs maybe (not always), pics, etc. for a rail stations this typically means a good chunk on its history, current services, any accidents, any redevelopments in the past or (esp sourced) discussion of future plans. Don't take to too seriously though as the ratings stub, start, and B are somewhat flexible and not that serious when compared to "GA", "A" and "FA" (which go through a proper peer review process, etc). This is also not meant as a knock or anything to DanTD or the guy who rated the article. Pickle 05:21, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Islip (LIRR station)]] 

message: Apparently the bot that assesses railroad-related articles has been shut down. I hope everything's alright, because I added some new station articles, and I'm still waiting for the reassessment for Bayside (LIRR station). ----DanTD (talk) 03:28, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  No new assessments for 2008? 

message: Well, maybe a stupid question but how can I find the assessment history of a specific article? The assessment log is huge (and truncated, as it says) and no search-tools seem to be available. Some articles have the "Article milestones" info box but not all. Is the information available anywhere? --Sivullinen (talk) 23:10, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: One way is to check the history of the talk page of the article, assessment changes can be checked there. Mjroots (talk) 09:25, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to find the assessment history of an article? 

message: The section on requesting an assessment should include a statement indicating whether new requests are to be added at the beginning of the list or the end.  Currently, no guidance is given on this point, and the list of requests consequently has no chronological order.  Granted, some people would ignore such a request or not notice it, but most would follow the stated protocol – such as "Please add new requests to the end of the list." I'm not a project member, so I am just pointing this out, in an attempt to help clarify things. SJ Morg (talk) 10:13, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wording of "Requesting an assessment" section 

message: It looks as though the automatic assessment log has been unusable for some time (since January 2010?) due to a number of pages with duplicate project banners where the parameters were not consistent. (Evidently no one's been paying much attention to it.) I think I've zapped all the duplicates now, so it should be generating a useful log again. Choess (talk) 22:54, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessment Log 

message: Does anybody care to delete the articles that have already been reassessed? I'm on the verge of doing it myself, if it becomes necessary. ----DanTD (talk) 20:34, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, a lot of these assessment requests were done years ago, so I'm just going to remove the ones that are done. ---------User:DanTD (talk)  18:09, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: There's still some at the top of the list that was reassessed 10 years ago but still there. Maybe it's time for a major cleanup. -1.02 editor (talk) 05:09, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reassessed long ago 

message: Is there any chance that we can reinstate the A-class grading for TWP? 1.02 editor (talk) 11:28, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there a need for it? Is there something lacking from the B-GA-FA progression? Are there people willing to carry out an A-Class review? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 11:38, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: A class

message: How frequently does anyone actually do assessments? I put some articles at the bottom of the list about a month ago and they still haven't been reassessed yet. WT79 The Engineer (talk) 13:23, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessments requests 

message: With the exception of one article (request number 9) that went though a GA nomination process, I've gone through all the outstanding assessment requests and completed them to the best of my ability. I'm still pretty new to the project, but if people want to add additional articles for reassessment I'm happy to take a look at them when I get a chance. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 16:53, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessment requests completed