Wikipedia:WikiProject Horror/Assessment/Top-importance

This is the WikiProject assessment department "Top-Importance" page belonging to Wikipedia:WikiProject Horror. It is used as a basis for assigning "Top" importance to existing articles.

Top-importance is a designation used to indicate that an article is core to this WikiProject and the understanding of the horror genre.

N.b. Please bear in mind that the aim is not to assess the relative qualities of the articles themselves, but to determine how important (of what priority to the horror genre) it is the have an article about the subject in this on-line encyclopedia or any variant of it.

Please keep to starting the entry with emboldened class names (i.e. "Top", "High", "Mid" or "Low") only so it is clear for those following and so that the rating is clear (terms such as "promote" are relative in this context and thus shouldn't be used).


 * Candidates will be approved or rejected based on the following system:
 * Approved if the candidate has more for votes than against votes after one month.
 * Rejected if the candidate has an equal number or more against votes than for votes after one month.

Current Top-important items
n.b. please list strictly alphabetically

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Horror fiction

Horror film

Edgar Allan Poe

H. P. Lovecraft

Night of the Living Dead

Psycho (1960 film)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Vampire

Candidates for inclusion
n.b. please list strictly alphabetically

I'm listing below some of the articles that have already been assigned top importance but which were never discussed here.

Boris Karloff

 * Summary status ( 2 for | 0 against ) Top class — nominated on 20:20, Sunday September 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * Top - Original assessment by User:ONEder Boy on 3 March 2009.
 * Top - This is a no-brainer. I doubt that any single actor had a greater impact on the development of horror films.  Aside from leading the charge at Universal in the early '30s, he had major roles in some of the RKO films of the '40s, served as the *only* active horror icon in the early '50s, and starred in a number of important films with Vincent Price during the '60s. Sp4cetiger (talk) 20:20, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

King Kong

 * Summary status ( 1 for | 1 against ) Top class — nominated on 20:20, Sunday September 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * Top - Original assessment by User:ONEder Boy on 28 March 2009.
 * Mid - Although King Kong was hugely influential throughout the film industry, I'm against assigning it top importance simply because most of the sources I've seen don't list it as a horror film. The "monster" in the film, rather than horrifying, acts in many ways as a protagonist.  If the film belongs in the project at all, I'd classify it as Mid.  Sp4cetiger (talk) 20:20, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Werewolf

 * Summary status ( 2 for | 0 against ) Top class — nominated on 20:20, Sunday September 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * Top - Original assessment by User:ONEder Boy on 4 April 2009.
 * Top - Much like the vampire, this is one of the key monsters and in horror tradition. Although not quite as often fictionalized as the vampire, it's still fundamental enough to the genre to deserve top importance.  Sp4cetiger (talk) 00:15, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Zombie

 * Summary status ( 2 for | 0 against ) Top class — nominated on 20:20, Sunday September 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * Top - Original assessment by User:Ahmad123987 on 29 August 2010.
 * Top - Ditto as with the werewolf. Sp4cetiger (talk) 00:15, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Frankenstein (novel)

 * Summary status ( 2 for | 0 against ) Top class — nominated on 20:20, Sunday September 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * Top - Original assessment by User:ONEder Boy on 4 March 2009.
 * Top - This book has been reinterpreted and remade so many times, it's hard to think of it as anything but fundamental to the genre. Sp4cetiger (talk) 00:15, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Dracula (novel)

 * Summary status ( 2 for | 0 against ) Top class — nominated on 20:20, Sunday September 11, 2011 (UTC)


 * Top - Original assessment by User:ONEder Boy on 3 March 2009.
 * Top - Ditto as with Frankenstein above. Sp4cetiger (talk) 00:15, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Previously assigned Top-importance but now reassigned
n.b. please list strictly alphabetically