Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Assessment
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The Beatles WikiProject manages over 5,000 articles related to the Beatles, with a broad and nested hierarchy of categories covering them. This section is an attempt to categorise some of the main ones as to quality level and address which ones need work the most.
This is an ongoing task and your help would be appreciated. Have a read of some of the existing classifications so you know what this about, and please do read the instructions before starting, as there are a few tweaks and other jobs we can do at the same time as classifying with minimal extra effort and good returns!
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Article Assessment Department
[edit]Welcome to WikiProject The Beatles' Article Assessment Department.
Quick links
[edit]- The Beatles (Index · Statistics · Log)
- John Lennon (Index · Statistics · Log
- Paul McCartney (Index · Statistics · Log)
- George Harrison (Index · Statistics · Log)
- Ringo Starr (Index · Statistics · Log)
- Apple Corps and Apple Records (Index · Statistics · Log)
- George Martin (Index · Statistics · Log)
- Brian Epstein (Index · Statistics · Log)
- Yoko Ono (Index · Statistics · Log)
How to grade
[edit]- Locate ungraded Beatles related articles which are within the scope of the project. Those we know about reside in Category:Unassessed The Beatles articles and Category:Unknown-importance The Beatles articles
- Grade the article using the grading and importance scheme below.
- Once graded, the {{WPBeatles}} template needs to be included (not subst'd) on the Talk page with the correct parameters. (most articles will have it already, but with no parameters).
- Edit the talk page to add comments about why you rated the article the way you did. Please sign and date your comment with ~~~~ as usual.
- Apply small fixes on the spot (or big fixes if you have the time and inclination).
- While you are there, check that the article is in at least one (and usually only one) Beatles category.
- If the article is graded better than a stub but it has a stub template, remove the stub template(s) from the article.
- * If the article in serious need of some 'tender loving care', add it to Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Beatles#Adopt_an_article
- Add stubs to the "articles to expand" section of the To Do list, add cleanup candidates to that list too.
- If the article needs a photo, put a {{Reqphoto}} template onto the article's talk page and add it to the "photos needed" list on the To do page
- If an article might be in need of either merging or splitting, please note the article first and, for merge proposals, any articles you would suggest merging the article into. update this
Examples
[edit]Place some examples of the template usage/grading procedure here.
- For example, change {{WPBeatles}} to {{WPBeatles|class=B|importance=Low}} if you think it's a low importance B class article... then explain why on the comments subpage which you can get to by clicking on the edit link in the WPBeatles box.
Grading scheme
[edit]Codes and meanings
[edit]Article progress grading scheme
[edit]Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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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. | John Lennon (as of December 2022) |
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The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates. 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; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | List of songs recorded by George Harrison (as of December 2022) |
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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. | n/a |
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The article meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria
A good article is:
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Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication. | 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. | The Beatles (album) (as of December 2022) |
B | The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed 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. | Rubber Soul (as of December 2022) |
C | The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains 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, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow.
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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. | Please Please Me (as of March 2014) |
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 meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following:
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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. | The Beatles Anthology (TV series) (as of December 2022) |
Stub | A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria. | 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. | Compilation Deluxe (as of August 2016) |
List | Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list or set index article, 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 people who performed on Beatles recordings (as of July 2013) |
Article importance grading scheme
[edit]Importance | Criteria | Example |
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Top | This article is of the utmost importance to this project, as it forms the basis of all information. | The Beatles |
High | This article is fairly important to this project, as it covers a general area of knowledge. | Help! (album) |
Mid | This article is relatively important to this project, as it fills in some more specific knowledge of certain areas. | Beat music |
Low | This article is of little importance to this project, but it covers a highly specific area of knowledge or an obscure piece of trivia. | Nowhere Boy |
??? | This article is of unknown importance to this project. It remains to be analyzed. |
- See WikiProject The Beatles/doc for further information.
Articles covered by the project
[edit]Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/The Beatles articles by quality
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/John Lennon articles by quality
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Paul McCartney articles by quality
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/George Harrison articles by quality
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Ringo Starr articles by quality
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Apple Corps and Apple Records articles by quality
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/George Martin articles by quality
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Brian Epstein articles by quality
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Yoko Ono articles by quality log
Articles not yet in any category
[edit]Billy J. Kramer - Within scope I would have thought. I'm thinking maybe we should have a Brian Epstein/NEMS category? --kingboyk 23:35, 5 April 2006 (UTC)- Let It Be (disambiguation) - A dab page, should remain uncategorised
A Cellarful of Noise - Epstein autobiography, good for the above proposed Epstein category. --El Slameron 01:51, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
- I've created Category:Brian Epstein, although I wonder if it should be Category:Brian Epstein/NEMS or have a subcategory Category:Artists managed by Brian Epstein. Anyway, the category is in place and contains Mr Epstein's bio, his book, and some of the artists he managed. --kingboyk 08:17, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Merge candidates
[edit]Merge proposals:
[edit]- The Beatles' influence on popular culture --> article about Beatles phenomena
- Leave a redirect. What would the overall article be called, and what other articles would get merged in? I sort of favour leaving this one as is (It already has Mop Top redirecting to it I think)... not strongly though. ++Lar: t/c
- Of course my merge suggestion was just that: a suggestion. But I think the article is quite short and plain. There are other fashion and culture influences the Beatles have contributed to or been responsible for. I would prefer though, to refrain from suggesting a new article name until the bulk of the work on Beatles articles has been carried out - then we can see what shorter articles and stubs remain and possible be better able to come up with an article at that point (if one is deemed necessary). For that reason, for the meantime, I'd say leave it as it is and discuss it later. --Mal 20:19, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- Nod. It's a long and winding road from where we are now to "done". Keep suggesting stuff, the more we have a handle on what should go where, the better off we will be. Besides if we can find a few more items to merge in (the suits they wore on Ed Sullivan started a trend among bands, for instance) to "Beatles style" (or "Beatles stylistic influences" if you prefer) we have a winner... knowing what we want to call it doesn't mean we have to do the work first! whenever is soon enough. (that's a bit eventualist I realise... ++Lar: t/c 21:13, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- List of The Beatles' record sales --> Beatles trivia
- It's not really trivia. It really needs a {{wikify}}. Beyond that, my 'vote' would be leave as is or see if it could be merged into The Beatles discography. It would need to be a slow and painful merge so as not to spoil that nice discography, alas. --kingboyk 05:16, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- I think merging it in with discography might be a good idea... ++Lar: t/c 21:14, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
- I think the article is a bit too black and white... its not 'sexy' enough, if you get me. It needs to be formatted properly so that the (wealth of) information included there is easy for the poor wee human brain to put into context. As it stands, it would make your head spin a bit. Looking back at your comment Kingboy, I think that's probably what you mean by "wikify". Though even then, I'd consider the article to probably be a bit stark. I agree with developing it though, and see how it ends up looking - a decision can better be made after that. --Mal 05:32, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Not sure. It's a long article. If we believe that such detail is necessary, Keep. Otherwise merge as Mal suggested. If we're merging into History of The Beatles it will have to wait. I have serious reservations vis a vis History of The Beatles and its relationship to the flagship article. History of The Beatles as a fork just has not worked. --kingboyk 05:19, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
- Let's wait and see what comes up in the Albums section. There may be a Decca Sessions album article which we can merge to.
- Logically speaking, the Decca audition is part of the Beatles history (and also trivia information). Man I which I could remember the rules I was taught at uni regarding databases! The concepts and methodology would definately apply here! --Mal 05:32, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this should stand alone, or if the Beatles in Hamburg should have a larger more comprehensive article (which couold be quite spiffing if we can get photos). --kingboyk 16:12, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
- Strawberry Field --> Strawberry Fields Forever
- [[The Early Tapes of The Beatles --> The Beatles' First Steelbeard1 19:23, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
The big ones
[edit]- The Beatles (overview). List all articles which are about the general history of The Beatles here (Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/The Beatles history - a new project page created specifically to discuss this issue).
- Bootlegs
Split proposals:
[edit]- Abbey_Road_Studios#Film_scores
- Rarities (The Beatles album) (US release, different tracklisting and sleeve) --> e.g. Rarities (The Beatles American album) (But I'm not sure about the name). --kingboyk 15:24, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Beatlemania-->Beatlemania (musical), if notable
Already merged
[edit]See Wikipedia:WikiProject_The_Beatles/Log#Page_merges
Categories
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Worklist categories
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See also
[edit]- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/The Beatles articles by quality log
- Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles/Article Classification/Archive 1 - abandoned manual assessment system
August 17, 2024
[edit]Reassessed
[edit]- Once Upon a Long Ago (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
August 13, 2024
[edit]Renamed
[edit]- Alf Lennon renamed to Alfred Lennon.
- Bed-ins for peace renamed to Bed-in.
Reassessed
[edit]- Bed-in (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Redirect-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Mid-Class. (rev · t)
- Big Mama (song) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Redirect-Class to Unassessed-Class. (rev · t)
- Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
August 13, 2024
[edit]Renamed
[edit]- Alf Lennon renamed to Alfred Lennon.
- Bed-ins for peace renamed to Bed-in.
Reassessed
[edit]- Bed-in (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Redirect-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
August 17, 2024
[edit]Reassessed
[edit]- Once Upon a Long Ago (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
There were no logs for this project from August 11, 2024 - August 18, 2024.
There were no logs for this project from August 11, 2024 - August 18, 2024.
There were no logs for this project from August 11, 2024 - August 18, 2024.
There were no logs for this project from August 11, 2024 - August 18, 2024.
There were no logs for this project from August 11, 2024 - August 18, 2024.
There were no logs for this project from August 11, 2024 - August 18, 2024.