Wikipedia:WikiProject Music/Music genres task force/Assessment
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See WP:1.0 and WP:WVWP for more info. The {{genre}} template has been modified with a 'class' parameter so an articles assessment level can be displayed on its talk page and will appear in the subcategories of Category:Music genre articles by quality. This can be done by using either {{genre|class=FA}}, {{genre|class=A}}, {{genre|class=B}}, {{genre|class=Start}} or {{genre|class=Stub}}.
For adding an article to the table below, use {{FA-Class}}, {{A-Class}}, {{B-Class}} and {{Start-Class}} for the assessment level. For music genre stubs, see Category:Music genre stubs, and for music genre articles in general, see Category:Music genres, music genre lists and/or footers.
Grading schemeEdit
Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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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.
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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. | Cleopatra (as of June 2018) |
FL | The article has attained featured list status. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured list criteria:
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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 has attained good article status, having been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria
The article meets the good article criteria:
A good article is:
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Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (but not equaling) the quality of a professional encyclopedia. | 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 is mostly complete and without major problems but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria
The article meets the six B-Class criteria:
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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. | Human (as of April 2019) |
C | The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains much 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; need editing for clarity, balance, or flow; or contain policy violations, such as bias or original research. Articles on fictional topics are likely to be marked as C-Class if they are written from an in-universe perspective. It is most likely that C-Class articles have a reasonable encyclopedic style.
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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 usable amount of good content but is weak in many areas. Quality of the prose may be distinctly unencyclopedic, and Wikipedia:Manual of Style compliance non-existent. The article should satisfy fundamental content policies, such as Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. Frequently, the referencing is inadequate, although enough sources are usually provided to establish verifiability. No Start-Class article should be in any danger of being speedily deleted.
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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. | Ring-tailed cardinalfish (as of June 2018) |
Stub | A very basic description of the topic. Can be well-written, but may also have significant content issues. More detailed criteria
The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to become a meaningful article. It is usually very short; however, if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible, an article of any length falls into this category. Although Stub-class articles are the lowest class of the normal classes, they are adequate enough to be an accepted article, though they do have risks of being dropped from being an article altogether.
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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. | Crescent Falls (as of June 2018) |
List | Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list, 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 Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1947 (as of June 2018) |
Featured articlesEdit
Article | Date | Assessment | Comments |
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Blues | December 3rd 06 | FA | Appeared on Main Page as Today's featured article on December 29, 2005. |
Grunge music | May 3rd 06 | FA | Appeared on Main Page as Today's featured article on August 6, 2005. |
Punk rock | April 26th 06 | FA | Appeared on Main Page as Today's featured article on March 21, 2004. |
A-ClassEdit
Good articlesEdit
Article | Date | Assessment | Comments |
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Drum and bass | September 27th 06 | GA | |
Dubstep | November 27th 07 | GA |
B-ClassEdit
Article | Date | Assessment | Comments |
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Electronic music | April 24th 06 | B | Layout, images, references. |
Electronic art music | April 28th 06 | B | Layout, images, wording. |
Berlin School of electronic music | April 24th 06 | B | Needs references, images, layout cleanup. |
Ambient music | April 24th 06 | B | Layout cleanup, images, references. |
Disco | April 24th 06 | B | Big layout cleanup. |
Euro disco | April 27th 06 | B | Layout, references, more info, images. |
Italo disco | April 27th 06 | B | Layout, references, more info. |
Spacesynth | April 27th 06 | B | References, more info, images. |
Neofolk | April 28th 06 | B | Layout, better history, references. |
Martial music | April 28th 06 | B | Layout, better history, references. |
Experimental music | April 28th 06 | B | Layout, better history, references. |
Dark ambient | April 28th 06 | B | References, images, wording. |
Dark cabaret | April 28th 06 | B | Layout, references, images. |
Ambient industrial | April 28th 06 | B | Layout, references, more history. |
Noise music | April 28th 06 | B | References, images, genrebox. |
Power noise | April 28th 06 | B | |
Intelligent dance music | April 24th 06 | B | Layout cleanup, images, references. |
Breakcore | April 28th 06 | B | Layout, references, images. |
Detroit techno | April 24th 06 | B | Layout cleanup, images, references. |
Trip hop | April 24th 06 | B | Layout cleanup, references. |
Trance music | April 24th 06 | B | Specific section cleanup, images, references. |
Techno music | April 24th 06 | B | Cleanup, images, references. |
Industrial music | April 24th 06 | B | Expand history, references, bit of a rewording/cleanup. |
Turntablism | April 24th 06 | B | General cleanup. |
Goa trance music | April 24th 06 | B | Layout/section cleanup. |
Psychedelic trance | April 24th 06 | B | Layout/section cleanup. |
Black metal | April 24th 06 | B | Layout/section cleanup. And fix that dispute! |
Death metal | April 24th 06 | B | Layout/section cleanup, images. |
Doom metal | April 24th 06 | B | Layout/section cleanup, images. |
Glam metal | April 24th 06 | B | Layout/section cleanup, images. |
Folk metal | April 24th 06 | B | Better lead and history. |
Metalcore | April 24th 06 | B | Layout/section cleanup, images. |
Nu metal | April 24th 06 | B | Layout/section cleanup. |
Industrial metal | April 24th 06 | B | Images, cleanup of artists section. |
Thrash metal | April 24th 06 | B | Layout/section cleanup. |
Breakbeat | April 24th 06 | B | Better history, images. |
Bouncy techno | April 25th 06 | B | Very close to A-class, just needs more references and a cleanup. |
Gothic rock | April 26th 06 | B | Images, references, layout. |
Start-ClassEdit
Article | Date | Assessment | Comments |
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Acid house | April 24th 06 | Start | Has references but needs a big cleanup and a proper history section. |
Dronology | April 24th 06 | Start | History, references, layout, images. |
Electro (music) | April 24th 06 | Start | Needs proper history, linkage cleanup, references. |
Digital hardcore | April 24th 06 | Start | History, references. |
Acid techno | April 24th 06 | Start | Needs proper description and history, references. |
Hardstyle | April 24th 06 | Start | History, references. |
Nu skool breaks | April 24th 06 | Start | Cleanup, layout, references. |
Techstep | April 24th 06 | Start | History, references. |
Brokenbeat | April 24th 06 | Start | Cleanup, layout, references. |
Vocal trance | April 24th 06 | Start | Big cleanup required, history, references. |
Neo-classical metal | April 24th 06 | Start | Layout, history. |
Ethereal Wave | April 28th 06 | Start | Needs to be filled out. |
Illbient | April 28th 06 | Start | Needs to be filled out. |
Alternative electronic | April 28th 06 | Start | References. |
Electronic body music | April 24th 06 | Start | Needs better history, references. |
Futurepop | April 24th 06 | Start | Needs proper history, references. |
Aggrotech | April 28th 06 | Start | More history, references, images. |
Technoid | April 28th 06 | Start | Needs to be filled out. |
Category:Music genre stubs | Stub | Music genre stub articles. |