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Welcome to the '''assessment department''' of the Germany WikiProject!  This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Germany 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 {{tl|WikiProject Germany}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of [[:Category:Norse history and culture articles by quality ]] and [[:Category:Norse history and culture articles by importance]], which serves as the foundation for an [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Norse history and culture articles by quality|automatically generated worklist]].

== Frequently asked questions ==

; How can I get my article rated? : Please list it in the [[#Requesting an assessment|section for assessment requests]] below.
; Who can assess articles? : Any member of the Norse history and culture 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 [[#Requestsing an assessment|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 ==

=== Quality assessments ===
{{Assessment Class Summary|banner=WikiProject Norse history and culture|topic=Norse history and culture}}

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

=== Quality scale ===
{{Grading scheme}}

=== Importance assessment ===
An article's importance assessment is generated from the ''importance'' parameter in the {{tl|WikiProject Norse history and culture}} project banner on its talk page:

; <nowiki>{{WikiProject Norse history and culture| ... | importance=??? | ...}}</nowiki>

{| border="0" align="right"
|-
| width=40px {{Top-Importance}}
|-
| {{High-Importance}}
|-
| {{Mid-Importance}}
|-
| {{Low-Importance}}
|-
| style="color:black; text-align:center; background:#FAEBD7;" | '''???'''
|}
The following values may be used for importance assessments:
* '''Top''' - adds articles to [[:Category:Top-importance Norse history and culture articles]]
* '''High''' - adds articles to [[:Category:High-importance Norse history and culture articles]]
* '''Mid''' - adds articles to [[:Category:Mid-importance Norse history and culture articles]]
* '''Low''' - adds articles to [[:Category:Low-importance Norse history and culture articles]]

==== Importance scale ====
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Label
! Criteria
! Examples
|-
! {{Top-importance}}
| Core topics about Norse history and culture. Generally, these topics are vital for the understanding of Norse history and culture or extremely notable to people generally. This category should stay limited to approximately 100 members. Biographies should be limited to the top one or two Norsemen in a particular category or persons of the greatest historical importance
| [[Longship]], [[Viking]], [[Odin]]
|-
! {{High-importance}}
| Topics that are very notable within Norse history and culture, and well-known outside of it, and can be reasonably expected to be included in any print encyclopedia. This includes cities with a population of more than 100,000
| [[Harald Fairhair]], [[Jomsvikings]], ''[[Njal's Saga]]''
|-
! {{Mid-importance}}
| Topics that are reasonably notable within Norse history and culture without necessarily being famous or very notable internationally, including smaller towns
| [[Rus' Khaganate]], [[Volga trade route]], [[Egill Skallagrimsson]]
|-
! {{Low-importance}}
| Topics of mostly local interest or those that are only included for complete coverage or as examples of a higher-level topic; peripheral or trivial topics or topics that have only a limited connection to Norse history and culture
| [[Guthfrith, King of York]], [[Hygd]], ''[[Þorsteins saga Víkingssonar]]''
|}

=== Requesting an 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.


<!-- Add your assessment request here -->


== Assessment log ==
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| Norse history and culture articles:<br>{{WP1|Norse history and culture}}
|}
:''The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.''

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