Wikipedia:WikiProject R&B and Soul Music/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of the R&B and Soul Music WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's R&B and Soul Music 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 R&B and Soul Music project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:R&B and Soul Music articles by quality and Category:R&B and Soul Music articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Progress update on our articles
As of, there are ' articles within the scope of WikiProject R&B and Soul Music, of which ' are featured. This makes up % of the articles on Wikipedia and % of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are  pages in the project.

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 R&B and Soul Music 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 assessment
An article's importance assessment is generated from the

importance parameter in the WikiProject R&B and Soul Music project banner on its talk page:



The following values may be used for importance assessments:
 * Top - The article is about one of the core topics of R&B and Soul Music. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance R&B and Soul Music articles
 * High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of R&B and Soul Music. Adds articles to Category:High-importance R&B and Soul Music articles
 * Mid - The article is about a topic within the field that may or may not be commonly known outside the R&B and Soul Music community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance R&B and Soul Music articles
 * Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the R&B and Soul Music field and is not generally common knowledge outside the community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance R&B and Soul Music articles
 * Unknown - Any article which has not yet been assessed on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance R&B and Soul Music articles.

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.


 * Skiing In The Snow — successful UK chart hit and one of the most notable tracks in Northern soul. One Of Seven Billion (talk) 12:38, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The Supreme Florence Ballard — the lone album release/compilation by legendary Florence Ballard, founding member of The Supremes. JonathanLGardner (talk) 20:56, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Ungodly Hour — critically aclaimed, grammy-nominated studio album by American R&B duo Chloe x Halle. 110.136.154.214 (talk) 15:18, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Assessment log

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