Welcome to theassessment department of theSocial Work WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about Social Work. The article ratings are used within the project to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

Ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the{{WikiProject Social Work}} project banner. Filling in a rating in theclass parameter of the{{WikiProject Social Work}} template on the talk page of an article causes the name of that article to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories ofCategory:Social work articles by quality, which can then be seen in the#Current status section below.

How can I get an article rated?

Do it yourself or list it in thesection for assessment requests below.

On what basis are assessments made?

We have not established project-specific criteria for article quality, so we use the scale atTemplate:Grading scheme. Our guidelines for importance arebelow. See alsoTemplate:WikiProject Social Work/doc.

Who can assess articles?

Any member of the Social Work WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article.

What if I don't agree with a rating?

Change it or discuss it in the article talk page.

Where are articles needing assessment?

AtCategory:Unassessed Social work articles and in the#Requesting an assessment section below.

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on thediscussion page for this department.

The criteria used for rating article importance arenot meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, it is a rough approximation of how important it is for this project to produce a high quality article on the topic. Importance ratings are a combination of several factors:

1. What is the probability of theaverage reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic?Page view counts are very helpful in approximating this. This criterion should be used in conjunction with the other criteria; articles that are very frequently viewed but only tangentially related to social work should be given a low importance rating.
2. What is the significance of the topic for the history and practice of social work? Topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience, but have been significant in changing social work practice in other parts of the world, should be highly rated.
3. What is the significance of the topic for popular perceptions of social work? Articles such asWelfare queen or theDeath of Baby P may have had minimal impact on the practice of social work, but are significant in shaping public perceptions of social work, and should be highly rated.

If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new quality rating for it, please feel free to list it below.Note: This is only to rate the article on quality – you may or may not get feedback on the article. If you desire a review, use thepeer review process. If you assess an article, please remove it so that other editors will not waste time reviewing the same articles. Thanks!

Articles submitted here will not be rated above 'B'; seeWikipedia:Good articles andWikipedia:Featured articles for higher assessments.

Edit this section and place request here:

• 0.7% List-Class
• 19.3% Stub-Class
• 44.4% Start-Class
• 27% C-Class
• 6.6% B-Class
• 0.6% GA-Class
• 0.1% FA-Class
• 1.4% remaining

The following table is convenient for determining priority articles and overall project coverage, but is maintained by theWP_1.0_bot, which is poorly maintained and updates the table only unreliably.	Articles by Quality and Importance	The following are updated nearly immediately.
Social work articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 1 1 GA 1 2 5 8 B 4 14 22 45 6 91 C 7 35 94 180 54 370 Start 3 39 49 338 1 179 609 Stub 6 23 141 95 265 List 1 1 5 2 9 Category 255 255 NA 4 2 8 154 168 Assessed 14 100 193 723 410 336 1,776 Unassessed 3 16 19 Total 14 100 193 726 410 352 1,795 WikiWork factors (?) ω =6,404 Ω = 4.76	Social work articles Importance  Top   High   Mid   Low   ???  Total Quality  FA 0 0 0 0 0 0  A 0 0 0 0 0 0  GA 0 0 0 0 0 0 B 0 0 0 0 0 0 C 0 0 0 0 0 0 Start 0 0 0 0 0 0 Stub 0 0 0 0 0 0  FL 0 0 0 0 0 0 List 0 0 0 0 0 0 Draft 0 0 0 0 0 0 Redirect 0 0 0 0 0 0 ??? 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 0 0 0 0 0 0	Importance scale [edit]  Top   High   Mid   Low   NA   ???  Total 14 100 193 726 458 352 1,843 Quality scale [edit]  FA  A  GA B C Start Stub  FL List Category NA ??? Total 1 0 8 91 370 609 265 0 9 255 216 19 1,843

For another approach to creating this table, seeWikipedia:WikiProject Basic Income/Stats.

The logs in this section are generated automatically; please don't add entries to them by hand.

Unexpected changes, such as downgrading or raising an article more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.

• Viesturs Kleinbergs (talk) assessed. Quality assessed asUnassessed-Class.(rev ·t) Importance assessed asUnknown-Class.(rev ·t)

• Draft:Jose Aguilar Berrocal (talk) removed.

• Draft:Christianity in Haryana (talk) assessed. Quality assessed asNA-Class.(rev ·t) Importance assessed asNA-Class.(rev ·t)
• Draft:Radha Krishan Bhat (talk) assessed. Quality assessed asNA-Class.(rev ·t) Importance assessed asNA-Class.(rev ·t)

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