Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative music/Assessment

Article rating and assessment scheme
An article rating and assessment scheme has been implemented for articles identified as being of interest to WikiProject Alternative music. In doing so, articles may be rated in the following ways: The primary purpose of this rating and assessment scheme is to provide project members and editors with a sub-categorized survey of the current status of Alternative music-related articles, which can then be used to prioritize the overall workload and highlight articles needing improvements at various stages.
 * an assessment of their class (overall quality), and
 * an assessment of their importance (priority or relative significance).

For example, higher-priority articles (those most essential to any encyclopedia) in need of most work (such as lower quality) can be readily identified for attention and collaboration.

Instructions
An article's assessment is recorded via the use of certain parameters of the Wikiproject Alternative music project banner, which is affixed to the talk pages of in-scope articles.

The two parameters used for this exercise are class (indicates an assessment of the article's current overall quality) and importance (indicates an assessment of the relative priority or significance of the particular article to general knowledge of alternative music-related topics). Usage summary (note the parameters are in lowercase):

These parameters flag the article according to the values chosen (which then appear on the project banner), and also assign the article to a corresponding category. The possible values of these parameters and guidance criteria on which value to choose are detailed below: see Importance scale for the importance parameter and Quality scale for the class parameter.

Importance scale
The following values may be used for the importance parameter (they should be entered exactly as given): The importance parameter is not used if an article's class is set to NA, and may be omitted in those cases. If the importance parameter is not yet set, or contains an invalid value, the article will be assigned to.

Quality scale
Each article may also be assigned to a particular class, intended as a point-in-time assessment of its overall "quality" - relative to the criteria given in the quality scale which is detailed below.

This quality scale follows the definitions employed at the Version 1.0 Editorial Team's assessment system.

The following values may be used for the class parameter (they should be entered exactly as given):