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

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 Yoga 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 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.

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Yoga}} project banner on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):

FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class Yoga articles)		FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Yoga articles)		A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Yoga articles)		GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Yoga articles)		B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Yoga articles)		C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Yoga articles)		Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Yoga articles)		Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Yoga articles)		FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Yoga articles)		List

For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:

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

An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{WikiProject Yoga}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject Yoga| ... | importance=??? | ...}}

The following values may be used for importance assessments:

• Top - The article is about one of the core topics of Yoga as listed in {{Yoga topics}}. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance Yoga articles
• High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of Yoga. Adds articles to Category:High-importance Yoga articles
• Mid - The article is about a topic within the Yoga field that may or may not be commonly known outside the Yoga community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Yoga articles
• Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the Yoga field and is not generally common knowledge outside the Yoga community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance Yoga articles
• Unknown - Any article which is not assessed on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Yoga articles.

Given the number and variety of articles with which this project shall be dealing, I believe that we should devote a good deal of attention in the short run to determining which of the articles we consider to be of greatest importance to the project. We now have a page at Wikipedia:WikiProject Yoga/Assessment/Top-importance articles where we can discuss which articles should receive top-importance ranking. Any and all input is more than welcome.

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.

• Request another look at importance rating for Jivamukti Yoga - it seems a bit odd to rate a high-publicity, popular style two rungs below High: "Less known styles of yoga" and one below Mid: "still lesser known schools of yoga" -Wormcast (talk) 17:50, 15 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Requesting reassessment. Ewj001 (talk) 17:38, 28 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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

• Draft:Sarvesh Shashi (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Draft:Thulasiram Govinda Chettiyar (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)