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Welcome to the '''assessment department''' of WikiProject United States Public Policy!  This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's articles about the full spectrum of U.S. public policy topics.  Assessment is done in conjunction with the [[WP:1.0]] program, and 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 United States Public Policy}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of [[:Category:United States Public Policy articles by quality]], which serves as the foundation for an [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/United States Public Policy articles by quality|automatically generated worklist]]. 

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== Instructions ==

An article's assessment is generated from the ''class'' and ''importance'' parameters in the {{tl|WikiProject United States}} project banner on its talk page:

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{{WikiProject United States Public Policy
|class=
|importance=
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The following values may be used for the ''class'' parameter:

* '''FA''' (adds articles to [[:Category:FA-Class United States articles]])
* '''A''' (adds articles to [[:Category:A-Class United States articles]])
* '''GA''' (adds articles to [[:Category:GA-Class United States articles]])
* '''B''' (adds articles to [[:Category:B-Class United States articles]])
* '''Start''' (adds articles to [[:Category:Start-Class United States articles]])
* '''Stub''' (adds articles to [[:Category:Stub-Class United States articles]])
* '''NA''' (for pages, such as templates or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to [[:Category:Non-article United States pages]])

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in [[:Category:Unassessed United States Public Policy articles]].  The class should be assigned according to the [[#Quality scale|quality scale]] below.

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=== Quality scale ===

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=== Importance scale ===

The criteria used for rating article importance are '''not''' meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is.  Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the ''average'' reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it).  Thus, subjects with greater ''popular'' notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of the United States.

''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 audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.''

{| align=center class="wikitable"
!Status
!Template
!Meaning of Status
|-
|{{Top-Class}}
|align="center"|'''<nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Top-Class|Top-Class]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki>'''
|This article is of the utmost importance to this project, as it forms the basis of all information.
|-
|{{High-Class}}
|align="center"|'''<nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:High-Class|High-Class]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki>'''
|This article is fairly important to this project, as it covers a general area of knowledge.
|-
|{{Mid-Class}}
|align="center"|'''<nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Mid-Class|Mid-Class]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki>'''
|This article is relatively important to this project, as it fills in some more specific knowledge of certain areas.
|-
|{{Low-Class}}
|align="center"|'''<nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:Low-Class|Low-Class]]<nowiki>}}</nowiki>'''
|This article is of little importance to this project, but it covers a highly specific area of knowledge or an obscure piece of trivia.
|-
|None
|align="center"|'''None'''
|This article is of unknown importance to this project. It remains to be analyzed.
|}

=== 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:

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== Assessment log ==

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

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

{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/United States Public Policy articles by quality log}}

== Worklist ==

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

{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/United States Public Policy articles by quality}}

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