User:Robevans123/sandbox/Big Bang - Clapham Omnibus Test

The Big Bang - Clapham Omnibus Test, more formally known as the Big Bang Theory (TV series) and Man on the Clapham Omnibus Test, and usually abbreviated to BBCOT, is a test of the readability and depth of articles on Wikipedia, based on the main characters of the popular american TV series The Big Bang Theory and the hypothetical legal entity The man on the Clapham omnibus. The test produces an index that shows whether an article meets acceptable criteria of depth and readability, or requires some copy-editing, or major expansion or reduction.

Background
This test arose from discussions on the use of conversion of units, with particular regard to the use of SI units in scientific and technical articles, on the Manual of Style talk page for Dates and numbers.

Units
The overall index (the BBCOT index) is derived from three sub-units described below.

Sheldon Cooper index
The Sheldon Cooper index (SC) rates an article on purely on the depth of an article, unlike the other two units (which also consider readability and understanding) as Sheldon, a theoretical physicist, knows everything and understands everything.

Possible values are 0 (Sheldon regards the article as not being detailed enough) or 10 (Sheldon regards the article as just right).

Hoftstader/Kuthrapali/Wolowitz index
0-5 depth 0-5 readability

Penny/Man on Clapham Omnibus index
0-5 depth 0-5 readability

possibly be combined into a new unit "The woman on the New York subway"