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Sociology articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 1 1 3 9 14
FL 1 1
GA 5 15 29 63 3 115
B 28 140 277 394 1 104 944
C 60 265 628 1,311 452 2,716
Start 32 178 742 2,185 1 1,152 4,290
Stub 3 24 143 783 567 1,520
List 3 22 51 174 3 21 274
Category 5 2 4 31,977 31,988
Disambig 1 4 4 22 31
File 1 31 32
Portal 1 1
Project 24 24
Template 1 1 3 2 149 156
NA 2 20 41 98 400 561
Other 1 1 70 72
Assessed 141 670 1,927 5,024 32,678 2,299 42,739
Unassessed 1 9 291 301
Total 141 670 1,928 5,033 32,678 2,590 43,040
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 44,496 Ω = 4.64

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


Frequently asked questions[edit]

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 Sociology WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article.
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[edit]

An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the ((WikiProject Sociology)) project banner on its talk page: 

((WikiProject Sociology |class= |importance= ))

The following values may be used for the class parameter:

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed sociology articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

Quality scale

WikiProject article quality grading scheme
Class Criteria Reader's experience Editing suggestions Example
 FA The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates.
More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured article criteria:

A featured article exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes.

  1. It is:
    1. well-written: its prose is engaging and of a professional standard;
    2. comprehensive: it neglects no major facts or details and places the subject in context;
    3. well-researched: it is a thorough and representative survey of the relevant literature; claims are verifiable against high-quality reliable sources and are supported by inline citations where appropriate;
    4. neutral: it presents views fairly and without bias;
    5. stable: it is not subject to ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured article process; and
    6. compliant with Wikipedia's copyright policy and free of plagiarism or too-close paraphrasing.
  2. It follows the style guidelines, including the provision of:
    1. a lead: a concise lead section that summarizes the topic and prepares the reader for the detail in the subsequent sections;
    2. appropriate structure: a substantial but not overwhelming system of hierarchical section headings; and
    3. consistent citations: where required by criterion 1c, consistently formatted inline citations using footnotes—see citing sources for suggestions on formatting references. Citation templates are not required.
  3. Media. It has images and other media, where appropriate, with succinct captions and acceptable copyright status. Images follow the image use policy. Non-free images or media must satisfy the criteria for inclusion of non-free content and be labeled accordingly.
  4. Length. It stays focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail and uses summary style where appropriate.
 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.[under discussion] Cleopatra
(as of June 2018)
 FL The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates.
More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured list criteria:
  1. Prose. It features professional standards of writing.
  2. Lead. It has an engaging lead that introduces the subject and defines the scope and inclusion criteria.
  3. Comprehensiveness.
  4. Structure. It is easy to navigate and includes, where helpful, section headings and table sort facilities.
  5. Style. It complies with the Manual of Style and its supplementary pages.
  6. Stability. It is not the subject of ongoing edit wars and its content does not change significantly from day to day, except in response to the featured list process.
 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. 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 the A-Class criteria:
Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia: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 a featured 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 meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations.
More detailed criteria
A good article is:
  1. Well-written:
    1. the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct; and
    2. it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation.
  2. Verifiable with no original research:
    1. it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline;
    2. reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose);
    3. it contains no original research; and
    4. it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism.
  3. Broad in its coverage:
    1. it addresses the main aspects of the topic; and
    2. it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).
  4. Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each.
  5. Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute.
  6. Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio:
    1. media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content; and
    2. media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.
 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 existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. Discovery of the neutron
(as of April 2019)
B The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards.
More detailed criteria
  1. The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations. It has reliable sources, and any important or controversial material which is likely to be challenged is cited. Any format of inline citation is acceptable: the use of <ref> tags and citation templates such as ((cite web)) is optional.
  2. The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies. It contains a large proportion of the material necessary for an A-Class article, although some sections may need expansion, and some less important topics may be missing.
  3. The article has a defined structure. Content should be organized into groups of related material, including a lead section and all the sections that can reasonably be included in an article of its kind.
  4. The article is reasonably well-written. The prose contains no major grammatical errors and flows sensibly, but it does not need to be "brilliant". The Manual of Style does not need to be followed rigorously.
  5. The article contains supporting materials where appropriate. Illustrations are encouraged, though not required. Diagrams, an infobox etc. should be included where they are relevant and useful to the content.
  6. The article presents its content in an appropriately understandable way. It is written with as broad an audience in mind as possible. The article should not assume unnecessary technical background and technical terms should be explained or avoided where possible.
 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 the Manual of Style and related style 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 substantial cleanup.
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 solve cleanup 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:
  • A useful picture or graphic
  • Multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic
  • A subheading that fully treats an element of the topic
  • Multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article
 Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more. Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use. Ball
(as of September 2014)
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 a stand-alone list or set 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

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 Sociology.

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.

Status Template Meaning of Status
Top ((Top-Class)) This article is of the utmost importance to this project, as it forms the basis of all information.
High ((High-Class)) This article is fairly important to this project, as it covers a general area of knowledge.
Mid ((Mid-Class)) This article is relatively important to this project, as it fills in some more specific knowledge of certain areas.
Low ((Low-Class)) 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 None This article is of unknown importance to this project. It remains to be analyzed.

Task force statistics[edit]

This section is intended to include statistics for the WikiProject Sociology Social movements task force.

Assessment requests[edit]

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. For assessment of articles above B class (GA, A, FL or FA) please submit them through the regular process.

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:

  1. Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
  2. Mediatization (media)
  3. Childhood nudity
  4. Nakedness and colonialism

Handled requests

Articles where an editor has responded to the request for reassessment can be moved here:

Handled requests
  1. Market (economics) Lbertolotti (talk) 16:45, 22 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Reviewed - mid importance. Jamzze (talk) 10:04, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Hypocrisy - unattended and flagged for cleanup, I attended to it and cleaned it up today. - Thanks; LeoRomero (talk) 11:06, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Reviewed - mid importance. Jamzze (talk) 10:04, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Reproductive coercion
    Reviewed - low importance. Jamzze (talk) 10:04, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Privilege (social inequality) - Mid or High importance?
    Reviewed - mid importance. Jamzze (talk) 10:04, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  5. I noticed that in Talk:Fucking Machines that this unfortunate article has a Good Article status from this WikiProject. This status needs to be reconsidered and likely removed. Rlsheehan (talk) 19:50, 8 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Reviewed - Out of scope. Jamzze (talk) 11:14, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Soka Gakkai - This article had been improved for the pass few month with many citation put into the article. Requesting a review for this article. Kelvintjy (talk) 04:14, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    Reviewed - low importance. Jamzze (talk) 10:19, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Creative Cities Network = Requesting a review. Data presented in tables, City data completed for previous years, new city data added for 2014, descriptions added and all fully referenced.
    Reviewed - Out of scope. Jamzze (talk) 10:19, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Combat Zone, Boston - This article needs to be looked at with a fresh pair of eyes. Please see Talk page. I've done a ton of work on it, but still...eh. --Rosekelleher (talk) 15:24, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    Reviewed - low importance. Jamzze (talk) 10:19, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  9. 4INFO - Improved. Please take a look. TY MarkMillerITPro (talk) 10:12, 2 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    Reviewed - Out of scope. Jamzze (talk) 10:19, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Digital dependencies and global mental health Just wrote this article from the multidisciplinary perspective but this article is meant to be sociology and anthropology and its intersection with medicine. E.3 (talk) 05:38, 8 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Reviewed - mid importance. Jamzze (talk) 10:19, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Nash's Pyramid - New to Wikipedia and would really appreciate any feedback and advice on how to improve this article!! Thanks Lvt01290 (talk) 11:49, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Reviewed - low importance. Jamzze (talk) 10:19, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Political bias is currently Class-C but lacks a rating on the importance scale. Also, a significant amount of content has been added since its last assessment. Please review. Thanks in advance, your help is greatly appreciated. 2804:14C:5BB5:8076:C93F:B074:E20:4395 (talk) 10:17, 14 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Reviewed - Out of scope. Jamzze (talk) 10:19, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Marxist humanism - I made substantive additions to this article over the last few months. I requested a review of the rating on the socialism portal, but I didn't get one. I'd like to request a review here instead. -- Hanshans23 (talk) 12:58, 18 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Reviewed - mid importance. Jamzze (talk) 10:19, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  14. People Power Please review this article about a grassroots protest method. Thanks in advance, your help is very much appreciated. Gadgetcat (talk) 08:50, 23 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Reviewed - mid importance. Jamzze (talk) 10:19, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Political sociology Improved. Would value outside review for a reassessent of its current grading. Jamzze (talk) 21:02, 17 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    Reviewed - high importance. Jamzze (talk) 10:19, 25 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment log[edit]

Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.
Assessment log - click on "show" to the right to expand

April 7, 2024[edit]

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  • Category:Middle Eastern culture (talk) removed.
  • Category:North American culture by country (talk) removed.
  • Draft:Utang na Loob (talk) removed.

April 6, 2024[edit]

Reassessed[edit]

Assessed[edit]

April 5, 2024[edit]

Reassessed[edit]

Assessed[edit]

Removed[edit]

  • Category:European society (talk) removed.
  • Category:European society by country (talk) removed.

April 4, 2024[edit]

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Reassessed[edit]

Assessed[edit]

Removed[edit]

  • Category:African culture (talk) removed.
  • Category:North American culture (talk) removed.

April 3, 2024[edit]

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Assessed[edit]

Removed[edit]

April 2, 2024[edit]

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Reassessed[edit]

Assessed[edit]

Removed[edit]

  • Draft:Non-germanic (talk) removed.

April 1, 2024[edit]

Reassessed[edit]

  • Deagrarianization (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)

Assessed[edit]

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