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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.

[edit] Grading scheme

Article progress grading scheme [  v  d  e  ]
Label Criteria Reader's experience Editor's experience Example
Featured article FA
{{FA-Class}}
Reserved exclusively for articles that have received "Featured article" status after peer review, and meet the current criteria for featured articles. Definitive. Outstanding, thorough article; a great source for encyclopedic information. No further editing is necessary unless new published information has come to light; but further improvements to the text are often possible. Sikhism (as of August 2006)
A
{{A-Class}}
Provides a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a great article. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, with a well-written introduction and an appropriate series of headings to break up the content. It should have sufficient external literature references, preferably from "hard" (peer-reviewed where appropriate) literature rather than websites. Should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. At the stage where it could at least be considered for featured article status, corresponds to the "Wikipedia 1.0" standard. Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. May miss a few relevant points. Minor edits and adjustments would improve the article, particularly if brought to bear by a subject-matter expert. In particular, issues of breadth, completeness, and balance may need work. Peer-review would be helpful at this stage. Durian (as of June 2006)
Good article GA
{{GA-Class}}
The article has passed through the Good article nomination process and been granted GA status, meeting the good article standards. This should be used for articles that still need some work to reach featured article standards, but that are otherwise good. Good articles that may succeed in FAC should be considered A-Class articles, but having completed the Good article designation process is not a requirement for A-Class. Useful to nearly all readers. A good treatment of the subject. No obvious problems, gaps, excessive information. Adequate for most purposes, but other encyclopedias could do a better job. Some editing will clearly be helpful, but not necessary for a good reader experience. If the article is not already fully wikified, now is the time. Agriculture (as of June 2006)
B
{{B-Class}}
Has several of the elements described in "start", usually a majority of the material needed for a completed article. Nonetheless, it has significant gaps or missing elements or references, needs substantial editing for English language usage and/or clarity, balance of content, or contains other policy problems such as copyright, Neutral Point Of View (NPOV) or No Original Research (NOR). With NPOV a well written B-class may correspond to the "Wikipedia 0.5" or "usable" standard. Articles that are close to GA status but don't meet the Good article criteria should be B- or Start-class articles. Useful to many, but not all, readers. A casual reader flipping through articles would feel that they generally understood the topic, but a serious student or researcher trying to use the material would have trouble doing so, or would risk error in derivative work. Considerable editing is still needed, including filling in some important gaps or correcting significant policy errors. Articles for which cleanup is needed will typically have this designation to start with. Munich air disaster (as of May 2006) has a lot of helpful material but contains too many lists, and needs more prose content & references.
Start
{{Start-Class}}
The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas, and may lack a key element such as a standard infobox. For example an article on Africa might cover the geography well, but be weak on history and culture. Has at least one serious element of gathered materials, including any one of the following:
  • a particularly useful picture or graphic
  • multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic
  • a subheading that fully treats an element of the topic
  • multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article
Useful to some, provides a moderate amount of information, but many readers will need to find additional sources of information. The article clearly needs to be expanded. Substantial/major editing is needed, most material for a complete article needs to be added. This article still needs to be completed, so an article cleanup tag is inappropriate at this stage. Real analysis (as of November 2006)
Stub
{{Stub-Class}}
The article is either a very short article or a rough collection of information that will need much work to bring it to A-Class level. It is usually very short, but can be of any length if the material is irrelevant or incomprehensible. Possibly useful to someone who has no idea what the term meant. May be useless to a reader only passingly familiar with the term. At best a brief, informed dictionary definition. Any editing or additional material can be helpful. Coffee table book (as of July 2005)

[edit] Featured articles

Article Date Assessment Comments
Blues December 3rd 06 Featured article FA Appeared on Main Page as Today's featured article on December 29, 2005.
Grunge music May 3rd 06 Featured article FA Appeared on Main Page as Today's featured article on August 6, 2005.
Punk rock April 26th 06 Featured article FA Appeared on Main Page as Today's featured article on March 21, 2004.

[edit] A-Class

[edit] Good articles

Article Date Assessment Comments
Drum and bass September 27th 06 Good article GA

[edit] B-Class

Article Date Assessment Comments
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 Refernces, 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.
Dubstep April 28th 06 B References, images, wording.
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.
Drum and bass April 24th 06 B Layout/section cleanup, images.
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.

[edit] Start-Class

Article Date Assessment Comments
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.