Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink/Cheeses task force/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the Cheeses WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Cheeses related articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the WikiProject Food and drink project banner with the |cheese=yes switch added; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Cheeses articles by quality and Category:Cheeses articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Frequently asked questions

 * How can I get my article rated? : Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
 * Who can assess articles? : Any member of the Cheeses WikiProject is free to add or change the rating of an article.
 * Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments? : Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, we are unable to leave detailed comments in most cases. If you have particular questions, you might ask the person who assessed the article; they will usually be happy to provide you with their reasoning.
 * What if I don't agree with a rating? : You can list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again.
 * Aren't the ratings subjective? : Yes, they are, but it's the best system we've been able to devise; if you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

Quality assessments
After assessing an article's quality, any comments on the assessment can be added to the article's talk page.

Importance scale
The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of Comics.

''Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.''

Requesting an assessment
If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below.

Hi, recently I have improved the Food reality television article and would like for it to be reassessed. Citation errors have been fixed and I have added more international examples to reflect a global perspective. Thank you in advance (LeoTex)

Hi, recently I have revamped the Colby-Jack article and would like for it to be reassessed. From a short paragraph, I have added a lot more information on the cheese. Thank you in advanceKayy1199 (talk) 07:39, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Personally, I believe that Romano Cheese is of high importance for many reasons. It provides as a substitute for other cheeses, yet, in its own, is another cheese. It is, in fact, a very useful cheese and to be rated as 'low'. The cheese, Romano Cheese was actually named after Rome which,has been manufacturing it since the birth of Christ. Now, I could also argue that the different types of Romano cheese are not well enough credited, but I figured that the roots are more important than the stick. In Italy, one type of Romano cheese is favored particularly. It is called Pecorino Romano cheese. This type of cheese has to meet specific guidelines to be labeled Pecorino cheese. It must be made of sheep's milk (a specific kind), be perfectly rounded, weighted, and be made in between the months of October and July. The cheese is also protected by the government. For mistakes like you have made to rate these highly favored cheeses 'low' on the importance scale is a disgrace, pure blasphemy.-Take THAT into consideration.
 * I left some of the flavor of this comment at the end. Relax, its obviously an important cheese. these assessments are for administrative purposes, and are not meant to be part of the article itself. in the pantheon of cheese articles, romano is high importance.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 06:13, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Assessment log
The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.