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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA | 1 | 1 | |||||
 GA | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 | |||
| B | 1 | 7 | 20 | 22 | 10 | 60 | |
| C | 2 | 19 | 36 | 142 | 33 | 232 | |
| Start | 1 | 14 | 67 | 313 | 90 | 485 | |
| Stub | 8 | 98 | 45 | 151 | |||
| List | 1 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 17 | ||
| Category | 498 | 498 | |||||
| Disambig | 1 | 1 | |||||
| File | 12 | 12 | |||||
| Project | 7 | 7 | |||||
| Redirect | 1 | 6 | 23 | 30 | |||
| Template | 11 | 11 | |||||
| NA | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Other | 28 | 28 | |||||
| Assessed | 4 | 41 | 134 | 599 | 582 | 182 | 1,542 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 11 | 12 | ||||
| Total | 4 | 41 | 135 | 599 | 582 | 193 | 1,554 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω =4,411 | Ω = 4.76 | |||||
Welcome to theassessment department of WikiProject Graphic design. This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's fictional Graphic Design related articles. Much of the work is done in conjunction with theWP: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 Graphic design}} talk page project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories ofCategory:Graphic design articles by quality andCategory:Graphic design articles by importance, which serve as the sources for anautomatically generated worklist.
An article's assessment is generated from theclass andimportance parameters in the{{WikiProject Graphic design}} project banner on its talk page (see theproject banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax):
The following values may be used for theclass parameter:
Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed inCategory:Unassessed Graphic design articles. The class should be assigned according to thequality scale below.
The following values may be used for theimportance parameter:
The parameter is not used if an article's class is set toNA and should be omitted in those cases. Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed inCategory:Unknown-importance Graphic design articles. The importance should be assigned according to theimportance scale below.
| Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FA | The article has attainedfeatured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers fromWP:Featured article candidates. More detailed criteria The article meets thefeatured article criteria: Afeatured article exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting thepolicies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes.
| Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | Cleopatra (as of June 2018) |
| FL | The article has attainedfeatured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers fromWP:Featured list candidates. More detailed criteria The article meets thefeatured list criteria:
| Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events (as of May 2018) |
 A | The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria The article meets theA-Class criteria: Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described inWikipedia:Article development. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. Only minor style issues and other details need to be addressed before submission as afeatured article candidate. See the A-Class assessment departments of some of the larger WikiProjects (e.g.WikiProject Military history). | Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting. | Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving.WP:Peer review may help. | Battle of Nam River (as of June 2014) |
| GA | The article meetsall of thegood article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers fromWP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria Agood article is:
| Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication. | Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existingfeatured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. | Everybody Wants to Rule the World (as of October 2025) |
| B | The article meetsall of theB-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reachgood article standards. More detailed criteria
| Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. | A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with theManual of Style and relatedstyle guidelines. | Psychology (as of January 2024) |
| C | The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantialcleanup. More detailed criteria The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow. | Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. | Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solvecleanup problems. | Wing (as of June 2018) |
| Start | An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following:
| Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more. | Providing references toreliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Improve the grammar, spelling, and writing style; decrease the use of jargon. | Gravel (as of January 2006) |
| Stub | A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria. | Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant. | Lineage (anthropology) (as of December 2014) |
| List | Meets the criteria of astand-alone list orset index article, 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. | List of literary movements |
The criteria used for rating article importance are meant to be an probable indication of how significant the topic is to Graphic Design as a whole, and how likely it would be covered in a serious encyclopedia. Hence, for example,Josef Müller-Brockmann's "Grid Systems in Graphic Design" would be ranked higher thanKimberly Elam'sGrid Systems orEllen Lupton'sThinking With Type.
Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western or US audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.
| Label | Criteria | Example Designers or Organizations | Examples in Design Literature or Work |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top | Subject is a "core" topic for Graphic Design as a field. Should be articles necessary to understanding the discipline (and its evolution) as a whole. | will fill in later | will fill in later |
| High | Subject is very notable or significant within the field of Graphic Design and is of interest to those outside of the field. | will fill in later | will fill in later |
| Mid | Subject is notable or significant within the field of Graphic Design, but not necessarily outside of the field. | will fill in later | will fill in later |
| Low | Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within the field of Graphic Design, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage in relation to some other notable article. | will fill in later | will fill in later |
If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free tolist it below at the bottom of the list.
To assess an article, simply update the WikiProject Graphic design template on the article's talk page. Please also strike out the request on this page by using the <s>Strike-through text</s> command and add a rationale for your assessment. Don't forget to sign your username after your comment.
Thefull log of assessment changes for the past thirty days is available.