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The assessment of articles on Wikipedia is essential to help editors improve and maintain quality standards. Within the scope of a WikiProject, members with shared interests can identify and assess articles, in order to appraise editor contributions, using an established quality grading scheme. In addition to standard ratings, articles can also be assessed, independent of WikiProjects, as Good articles and Featured articles, allowing editors to produce work at a professional encyclopedic level. What follows are the assessment standards offered by WikiProject Westerns.

Frequently asked questions

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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 Westerns WikiProject is free to add or change the rating of an article, up to and including B-Class without need for a formal review process. See instructions below.
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!

Instructions

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Project members may grade articles up to and including B-Class without need for a formal review process. Editors should enter the class they feel the article meets using the {{Westerns}} project banner. Editors may also raise or lower an article's class, accordingly, if the article appears over-rated or has been developed to a higher quality grade.

  • Template and Category pages that are related to the project should be tagged with the {{Westerns}} project banner and given the appropriate class. No further action is required.
  • The project does not identify Disambiguation, Book, or FM (featured media) pages, at present.
  • Articles that have been reviewed as FA/FL or GA class should also be identified as such within the project banner.
  • Editors may tag and assess articles which they have created up to B-Class, although a second opinion should normally be made at B-Class requests to avoid bias.

Quality assessments

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WikiProject Westerns uses the same criteria for grading articles as set out by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team. If you are not sure what class an article falls under, leave a note on the WikiProject's talkpage, and someone will help you out.

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject Westerns}} 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 Westerns articles)  FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Westerns articles)  A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Westerns articles)  GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Westerns articles) B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Westerns articles) C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Westerns articles) Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Westerns articles) Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Westerns articles)  FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Westerns articles) List

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

Category (for categories; adds pages to Category:Category-Class Westerns articles) Category
Draft (for drafts; adds pages to Category:Draft-Class Westerns articles) Draft
File (for files and timed text; adds pages to Category:File-Class Westerns articles) File
Project (for project pages; adds pages to Category:Project-Class Westerns articles) Project
Redirect (for redirect pages; adds pages to Category:Redirect-Class Westerns articles) Redirect
Template (for templates and modules; adds pages to Category:Template-Class Westerns articles) Template
NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Westerns articles) NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Westerns articles) ???

For a non-article, such as a Category, File, Template, or Project page, placing the {{WikiProject Westerns}} banner on the talk page, without a class parameter, will automatically put the page in the appropriate class category.

Quality scale

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Importance assessment

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

{{WikiProject Westerns|importance=???}}

The following values may be used for the importance parameter to describe the relative importance of the article within the project (see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Priority of topic for assessment criteria):

Top (adds articles to Category:Top-importance Westerns articles)  Top 
High (adds articles to Category:High-importance Westerns articles)  High 
Mid (adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Westerns articles)  Mid 
Low (adds articles to Category:Low-importance Westerns articles)  Low 
NA (adds articles to Category:NA-importance Westerns articles)  NA 
??? (articles for which a valid importance rating has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unknown-importance Westerns articles)  ??? 

Importance scale

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Don't worry too much about assessing for Importance. It's helpful to have the most vital westerns genre articles tagged as Top importance so they can be easily identified as the highest priority, but less influential television articles don't really need to be tagged for importance.

Note: The "importance" of an article is to be assessed for its importance within this WikiProject.

Article importance grading scheme

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Requesting an assessment

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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. Please add new entries to the bottom of the list and sign with four tildes (~~~~).

Assessment Requests

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2022

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2023

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  • Pages related to the Yellowstone franchise: Yellowstone (American TV series), 1883 (TV series), 1923 (TV series), Bass Reeves (TV series), and likely more in the near future. Some, but not all, are approaching or exceeding B class. For at least the main Yellowstone article another question needs to be asked: isn't this mid importance - this show is easily the most influential Western on (US) television in recent times, and it is definitely one of the biggest (American) show full stop, across all time and all genres (production budgets, guest star actors, articles written etc) in recent times. CapnZapp (talk) 07:16, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I would agree that Yellowstone for sure should be at least mid importance - at least as far as the Westerns project is concerned (the other projects have their own criteria). Our criteria for importance actually needs to be reviewed (and probably revised) as it is rather unclear. For the Westerns project, the imporance assessment is intended to be based on what the work means to the genre. Audience response and big production budgets are not all that important to that - they're an influence, but not the deciding factor. What Sheridan is doing for the genre itself - that's what makes it a more important work. Taylor Sheridan is not only widening the audience of the neo-Western genre, he's also pushing the boundaries of Contemporary Westerns and Revisionist Westerns (IMO). ButlerBlog (talk) 14:44, 8 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Statistics

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As articles are assessed they are categorized in Category:Westerns articles by quality and Category:Westerns articles by importance. From this, WP:1.0 creates a quality statistics table and a quality log of articles assessed using the project {{WikiProject Westerns}} banner.

Review assessment log