Welcome to the Assessment Department of WikiProject Cue sports (WP:CUE for short). This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's cue sports articles (including snooker; while that sport has its own WikiProject, it has no assessment department.) While much of the work is done in conjunction with the Wikipedia 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 {{Cue sports project}} article talk page banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Cue sports articles by quality, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.
- Please note that the ratings are similar to, but independent of and in some details different than those used by other WikiProjects (on sports, biography, national history, film, novels, and so on). Other WikiProjects may rate the same article, and their ratings may not agree with ours or with each other, because each has a different set of criteria. In particular, WP:CUE may often consider a player biographical article to remain at a lower rating than WikiProject Biography (WP:BIO) might, because our standards for article completion are much higher. From a WP:BIO standpoint, an article may seem "complete" if it is highly informative to an average reader, while from a WP:CUE point of view, it might remain woefully incomplete if missing substantial information on tournament standings, records, and other statistics, which a sports fan reader may be seeking. For this reason, it is possible in an extreme case for an article to be rated overall as a Featured Article in Wikipedia, but not be recognized as one by this WikiProject, if important material is demonstrably missing or incorrect. Also, the priority levels assigned by WP:CUE will often differ radically from those of WP:BIO.