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Welcome to the assessment department for WikiProject Musicians. This department is responsible for assessing all of the articles in the scope of the project. We work closely with the Wikipedia:1.0 program and use assessments internally to identify excellent contributions and articles that need attention.

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[edit] Requests for assessment

If you have added an article to the project or would like an article reassessed please request assessment by adding a link to the bottom of this list:

  • John Kahn — Currently unassessed. I'd suggest that it's a low "Start". I think it's important to recognize articles with a decent amount of material, and that have most of the features that Wikipedia articles in general should have, and not rate them as a "Stub". I admit though that this one's a close call. — Mudwater 00:57, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
I can see Start. It really needs at least two seperate sections (biography and music related) and some references, I feel. Zytsef (talk) 02:04, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
"B" pretty easily. Needs inline citations. The history section looks excellent. Zytsef (talk) 02:09, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Pretty decent "B" class article there. I'd say put it up for peer review and see what they have to say. Still needs some citation work and I cleaned up the format of song titles a bit. Zytsef (talk) 20:25, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Rick Vandivier — Was assessed as stub, now I think it's a decent start-class. Zytsef (talk) 23:18, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Kevin Manthei I'm his assistant and have updated his personal bio kevinmanthei.com and list of works, but ran into trouble when someone claimed "copyright violation" and "list." This represents the most comprehensive collection of his works and appropriate links available online and all content was used with his permission. I've restored the work, doing my best to avoid COI, but need help and advice on keeping this information available and fully intact. ~ Daveswallace (talk) 16:43, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Dredg - Recently improved. Currently start class. Believe it could easily be a B class. --Ars Sycro (talk) 00:18, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

If you are looking for in-depth comments you can request peer review.

[edit] Grading scheme

An article's assessment is generated from the class and priority parameters in the {{WPBiography}} project banner (including the musician-work-group parameter) on its talk page:

{{WPBiography
| class               =
| priority            =
| musician-work-group = yes
}}

[edit] Quality scale

Article progress grading scheme
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 community assessment, and meet the current criteria for featured articles. Definitive. Outstanding, thorough article; a great source for encyclopedic information. No further editing necessary, unless new published information has come to light. Wayne Gretzky
A
{{A-Class}}		 Reserved exclusively for articles that have received A-class status by the A-class review department. Provides a well-written, reasonably clear and complete description of the topic, as described in How to write a great article as much as the existence of reputable sources allow it. 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 the "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 as much as the existence of reputable sources allow it. 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 could be helpful at this stage. Yannis Makriyannis
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 being a Good article is not a requirement for A-Class. Useful to nearly all readers. A good treatment of the subject. No obvious problems, gaps, or 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. Bob Marley
B
{{B-Class}}		 Has several of the elements described in "start", usually a majority of the material needed for a completed article. Nonetheless, it may have significant gaps or missing elements or references, needs substantial editing for English language usage or clarity, balance of content, or contains other policy problems such as copyright, NPOV or NOR. 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 may have trouble doing so, or would risk error in derivative work. Editing, including filling in some important gaps or correcting significant policy errors, would be useful. Alfred Hitchcock (as of July 2006)
Start
{{Start-Class}}		 The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but does not provide complete information. Has at least one 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

NOTE: This is not a negative grade. There are no negative grades in Wikipedia. Having an article on Wikipedia is a passing grade, since it has to pass Notability. This grade is here to alert editors of articles that need some improvement to reach B-class

 Some readers will find what they are looking for, but many will not. A reader genuinely interested in the topic is likely to seek additional information elsewhere. Substantial editing is needed, with material for a complete article missing. The article needs to be built further. A. J. Croce (as of September 2006)
Stub
{{Stub-Class}}		 Either a very short article or a rough collection of information which is not yet structured as an article.

NOTE: This is not a negative grade. There are no negative grades in Wikipedia. Having an article on Wikipedia is a passing grade, since it has to pass Notability. This grade is here to alert editors of articles that need some improvement to reach Start or B-class

 Basic information. A brief, informed dictionary definition. Any editing or additional material can be helpful. Ayesha Al-Taymuriyya‎

[edit] Assessments

Biography (musicians)
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 6 28 25 8 4 71
A 2 2
Good article GA 10 23 69 39 38 179
B 34 163 644 284 519 1644
Start 73 860 3470 6950 11353
Stub 12 289 4538 31633 36472
Assessed 50 299 1887 8341 39144 49721
Unassessed 16 16
Total 50 299 1887 8341 39160 49737
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Biography
articles		 Importance
Top None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 21 480 501
A 2 19 21
Good article GA 24 970 994
B 151 14437 14588
Start 2 110997 110999
Stub 337848 337848
List 111 111
Assessed 200 464862 465062
Unassessed 55108 55108
Total 200 519970 520170

This is a list of the all the articles currently within the scope of this project.


Contact with WP Biography/Arts and entertainment/Musicians
See also: assessed article categories. Last update: June 12, 2008


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