User:TheTechnician27/Evolving assessment standards

This is my first essay! Currently under construction.

This essay deals with a perceived disconnect between the written assessment criteria and how they are implicitly assessed today.

As of 2022, the written criteria for these classes have remained unchanged or basically unchanged since mid-2008 when C-class was introduced. However, because these were written at the very tail end of what I would call the "wild west era" of Wikipedia and a couple years past the start of what I would call the "reform era", implicit standards for article assessment, I would argue, have changed and gotten somewhat more strict.

This was considered a stub-class article. Today, the article is longer and start-class (and also contains an unreferenced WP:POPCULTURE section; hurray). Length-wise, I'd definitely say this still comports with what a stub should be, but you'll note this is from 2005, which means references were an afterthought.