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

Frequently asked questions

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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 Holidays 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

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Quality assessments

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An article's quality assessment is recorded using the |class= parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Holidays}} banner template on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.

The following standard grades may be used to describe the quality of mainspace articles (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):

FA (for featured articles only; adds them to the FA-Class Holidays articles category)  FA
FL (for featured lists only; adds them to the FL-Class Holidays articles category)  FL
A (for articles that passed a formal peer review only; adds them to the A-Class Holidays articles category)  A
GA (for good articles only; adds them to the GA-Class Holidays articles category)  GA
B (for articles that satisfy all of the B-Class criteria; adds them to the B-Class Holidays articles category) B
C (for substantial articles; adds them to the C-Class Holidays articles category) C
Start (for developing articles; adds them to the Start-Class Holidays articles category) Start
Stub (for basic articles; adds them to the Stub-Class Holidays articles category) Stub
List (for stand-alone lists; adds them to the List-Class Holidays articles category) List
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unwarranted; adds them to the NA-Class Holidays pages category) NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in the Unassessed Holidays articles category) ???

For non-mainspace content, the following values may be used:

Category (for categories; adds them to the Category-Class Holidays pages category) Category
Draft (for drafts; adds them to the Draft-Class Holidays pages category) Draft
File (for files and timed text; adds them to the File-Class Holidays pages category) File
Portal (for portal pages; adds them to the Portal-Class Holidays pages category) Portal
Project (for project pages; adds them to the Project-Class Holidays pages category) Project
Template (for templates and modules; adds them to the Template-Class Holidays pages category) Template

The following non-standard assessment grades for mainspace content may be used at a WikiProject's discretion:

Disambig (for disambiguation pages; adds them to the Disambig-Class Holidays pages category) Disambig

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

Quality scale

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Importance assessment

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

{{WikiProject Holidays| ... | importance=??? | ...}}
Top
High
Mid
Low
???

The following values may be used for importance assessments:

Importance scale

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Label Criteria Reader's experience Editor's experience Example
Top The article is one of the core topics about holidays. A reader who is not involved in the field of holidays will have high familiarity with the subject matter and should be able to relate to the topic easily. Articles in this importance range are written in mostly generic terms, leaving technical terms and descriptions for more specialized pages. Holidays
High The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding holidays.
Mid The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in the history of holidays. 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 religion, such as specific aspects of holidays. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text. Most people involved in holidays will be rated in this level.
Low The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of holidays. Few readers outside the holidays field or that are not adherents to the specific faith 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 holidays, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed. Topics included at this level include most practices and infrastructure of holidays.

Given the number and variety of articles with which this project shall be dealing, I believe that we should devote a good deal of attention in the short run to determining which of the articles we consider to be of greatest importance to the project. We now have a page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Holidays/Assessment/Top-importance articles where we can discuss which articles should receive top-importance ranking. Any and all input is more than welcome.

Requesting an assessment

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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.

Buy Nothing Day

French Community Holiday

Day of the Flemish Community

Little Christmas

Darwin Day

Xmas

Onam

Christmas in Mexico

Wombling Merry Christmas

Assessment log

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Holidays articles:
Index · Statistics · Log
The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.


June 28, 2025

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Reassessed

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Assessed

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June 26, 2025

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Reassessed

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Assessed

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June 23, 2025

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Reassessed

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June 22, 2025

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Assessed

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