User:NeonMerlin/Scoring system

All articles (i.e. all main namespace pages except the Main Page, redirects and disambiguations), including stubs, can be scored by this system. Each article is assigned four scores. Each score ranges from 1 to 999, and scores outside that range are pushed back to one of the limit values, even though the scale presented is one from 0 to 1000. (This pushing-back happens at the end of the calculation; an article could first score 1300 points and then have 500 points deducted, and its final score would be 800.) This both serves as a built-in disclaimer and stresses that there's always room for improvement.

Reliability

Sourcing

Count the number of sources in an article. A bottable procedure for doing this is:

• A source is any of: a cite template, or paragraph containing non-template text, in a "References" section; or a footnote that contains a cite template or external link.
• If the article is tagged as completely {{unreferenced}}, the source count is automatically taken as zero.
• If the {{onesource}} tag is present, the source count is automatically taken as one.
• If the {{moresources}} tag is present, the source count is taken as no more than two.

Then, score according to the following table:

Situation	0 sources	1 source	2 sources	3+ sources
Tagged for unreliable sources (e.g. {{self-published}}), sources not supporting article statements, or unverified or unverifiable statements	0	50	125	300
More than half the article is in {{unreferencedsect}}ions, or more than one {{fact}} per 200 words	0	150	250	400
More than 25% of the article is in {{unreferencedsect}}ions, or more than one {{fact}} per 500 words	0	200	350	500
Some {{unreferencedsect}} or {{fact}} tags, or an {{expert-verify}} tag	0	200	500	700
None of the above, nothing evidently unsourced or wrong with the sources	0	200	600	900

Stability, neutrality and attention

Deduct:

• 200 points and maximum score of 500 if the article is less than four weeks old.
• 150 points if fewer than three distinct logged-in users have made unreverted edits.
• 100 points if the most recent edit is not marked as having passed an RC patroller.
• 150 points if the article is fully protected for any reason other than high exposure.
• 30 points per edit, beyond three, in the past 24 hours, to a maximum of 250 points. Multiple edits by the same user, with no intervening edits by anyone else, are counted as one.
• 250 points if the article is tagged as needing updating.
• 100 points if the article is marked as rapidly changing because it documents a current event.
• 150 points if the article is tagged as contradicting itself or another article.
• 300 points if the article, or sections making up more than 40% of the article, are tagged as NPOV-disputed (or have NPOV-related tags such as {{advert}}, {{PotentialVanity}} or {{cleanup-spam}}).
• 150 points if the above applies to part, but less than 40%, of the article.
• 400 points if the article, or sections making up more than 40% of the article, are tagged as factually disputed.
• 200 points if the above applies to part, but less than 40%, of the article.

GA/FA

• 150-point bonus and minimum score of 400 for a Good Article.
• 250-point bonus and minimum score of 600 for a Featured Article.

Subject importance

Score:

• 100 points as a baseline.
• 60 times the base-2 logarithm of the number of inbound links from other articles, including those through single or multiple redirects, to a maximum of 600 points. (Exceptions: Score zero here for zero inbound links, and 30 for one inbound link.)

• 450 points and minimum score 800 if the article is among Wikipedia Version 1.0's list of 1000 core topics.
• 300 points if the article is among the 1001 most-read articles. These are listed at [1]. (If the article is about sexuality, this is reduced to 150 points.)

Deduct:

• 350 points if the article is up for speedy deletion for a reason related to non-notability (e.g. A7) or is tagged with {{Unencyclopedic}}.
• 250 points if it has a tag that questions its importance without nominating it for deletion, such as {{importance}}, {{music-importance}} or {{PotentialVanity}}.
• A word-count-based pro-rating out of 200 for sections tagged with {{importance-s}}, if {{importance}} is not present.
• 100 points if it is undergoing a vote for deletion due to disputed notability.

Finally:

• 400 points and minimum score of 700 if the article is marked Top importance to WP:1 but not a core topic.
• 300 points and minimum score of 550 if the article is marked High importance to WP:1.
• 200 points and minimum score of 300 if the article is marked Medium importance to WP:1.
• Maximum score of 800 if the article is marked Low importance to WP:1.
• 300 points and minimum score of 450 if the article is marked Top importance to one or more WikiProjects.
• 200 points and minimum score of 350 if the article is marked High importance, but not Top, to one or more WikiProjects.
• 150 points and minimum score of 250 if the article is marked Medium importance, but not High, to one or more WikiProjects.
• Minimum score of 250 if the article survived a vote for deletion with consensus to keep in the last 12 months.
• Minimum score of 300 for a Featured Article.
• Minimum score of 250 for a Good Article.

Text quality

Tag/analysis scoring

Score 900 points as a baseline. Deduct:

• 600 points for {{cleanup-rewrite}}.
• 400 points for {{cleanup}}, {{cleanup-list}}, {{cleanup-afd}} or {{cleanup-disambig}} only in the absence of deductions for more specific tags.
• 400 points for each of the following tags: {{cleanup-confusing}}, {{advert}}, {{fansite}}, {{cleanup-laundryrack}}, {{proseline}}, {{copypaste}}, {{in-universe}}, {{fiction}}, {{inappropriate person}}, {{inappropriate tone}}, {{likeresume}}, {{story}}, {{CIA}}, {{Cleanup Congress Bio}}, {{howto}}.
• 250 points for each of the following tags: {{buzzword}}, {{cleanup-laundry}}, {{wikify}}, {{cleanup-restructure}}, {{cleanup-spam}}, {{context}}, {{essay-entry}}, {{expand}}, {{expert}}, {{plot}}, {{prophecy}}, {{quotefarm}}, {{sections}}, {{technical}}, {{toomuchtrivia}}, {{weasel}}, {{long}}.
• 100 points for each of the following tags: {{image-toosmall}}, {{abbreviations}}, {{cleanup-combine}}, {{expand-section}}, {{external links}}, {{intro length}}, {{Prose}}, {{metricate}}, {{off-topic}}, {{off-topic-other}}. The total deduction for 100-point tags cannot exceed 300.
• 400 points if the article was created less than two weeks ago and has not had a patrolled edit.
• 200 points if the above is not true but the article was created less than four weeks ago, unless it has had a non-minor edit by an admin.
• 100 points if one or more section titles is over five words in length.
• 250 points if there are over 300 words, or less than 50 words, per section-heading-plus-one, in the absence of a {{sections}} tag.
• 250 points for an article that is over 100 decimal kilobytes in length, in the absence of {{long}}.

If an article is marked with two or more redundant tags (e.g. {{story}} and {{inappropriate tone}}, or {{cleanup-restructure}} and {{cleanup-combine}}), count only whichever one has the higher point cost.

Spelling

Count the number of hits on Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings/For machines and divide by the number of words. Multiply this by 1,000, round down and deduct this from the score. A hit does not count if immediately followed by [sic] or <!--sic-->. For articles tagged with {{spelling}} or {{copyedit}}, take this deduction or 250 points, whichever is higher.

Finally

• 200-point bonus and minimum score of 500 for a Good Article.
• 350-point bonus and minimum score of 700 for a Featured Article.
• Maximum score of 700 for an article recently (past 6 months) rejected or delisted as a Good Article.
• Maximum score of 900 for an article recently (past 6 months) rejected or delisted as a Featured Article.

Thoroughness

Score as a baseline:

• 100 points for a stub.
• 300 points for a Start-class article.
• 500 points for a B-class or unrated article.
• 750 points and minimum score 600 for a good article.
• 850 points and minimum score 700 for an A-class article.
• 1000 points and minimum score 800 for a featured article.

An article is considered a stub, even in the absence of a WikiProject or Version 1.0 tag, if it has a stub tag or fewer than 200 words. Also, an unrated article that is less than four weeks old or has fewer than 500 words is never treated as higher than Start-class.