Wikipedia:WikiProject Roots music/Assessment

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

The basic process

 * Find an article to assess (see below)
 * Assess it according to the assessment criteria (see below, under Instructions)
 * Enter your findings in the template on the talk page (see Article Scope Template on WikiProject Roots music)

Finding an article to assess: the tagging process
There are a variety of ways of finding an article to tag. These include:
 * Stumbling across one in your wanderings
 * Looking at Category:Unassessed-Class_Roots music_articles and Category:Unknown-importance Roots music articles
 * Looking at various other places, as per tagging; includes assessing new items that pop up in the following categories, and don't appear in Category:WikiProject Roots music:
 * Category:Roots music and any subcategories
 * Category:Folk music and any subcategories
 * Pages that link to the above (see tagging link, above)

Article Scope Template
If you see an article that should belong to this project but doesn't, please go to its talk page and add to the top of the Talk page. This creates a box that looks like

from Template:WikiProject Roots music

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 Roots 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 Roots 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 Roots music. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance Roots music articles
 * High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of Roots music. Adds articles to Category:High-importance Roots music articles
 * Mid - The article is about a topic within the Roots music field that may or may not be commonly known outside the Roots music community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Roots music articles
 * Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the Roots music field and is not generally common knowledge outside the community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance Roots music articles
 * Unknown - Any article which has not yet been assessed on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance Roots 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.


 * Judy Dyble should be re-assessed as mid importance, I contend. Currently commercially significant, and this has brought fervent interest in her historical output.


 * Judy Dyble is a bit more than a Stub class now I think???Jude12 (talk) 22:33, 7 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Request The Kingston Trio be reviewed as an A article. Recently passed as GA. Thanks. Airproofing (talk) 17:43, 13 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Gillian Welch - rewrote entire article, greatly expanded. Nominated for a wp:GA with thoughts of a possible wp:FA down the road.  Thanks. --Omarcheeseboro (talk) 14:41, 15 January 2010 (UTC)


 * The Search for Robert Johnson - new article. Assessment needed. --Lexein (talk) 16:47, 16 August 2010 (UTC)


 * The Kingston Trio has been nominated as a Featured article as of Sept. 13, 2011. As the primary editor of the article, which is currently an Arts Good Article and within the scope of WP:ROOTS, I would invite any Project members who were so inclined to take a look at it here and add their input. Assessment needed.Sensei48 (talk) 18:20, 15 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Old Crow Medicine Show is perhaps more than start-class now; more like a B? Artaxerxes (talk) 22:16, 12 February 2012 (UTC)


 * The Hackensaw Boys may have risen above start-class quality, especially with recent changes in the article. Perhaps it now approaches a B?  Artaxerxes (talk) 15:29, 26 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Ethnomusicology should be reassessed. I'm not sure whether it is a start class still.   Nik ol ai Ho   19:47, 7 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Harry Chapin needs to receive a rating for the importance scale. I'd like to give my two cents about him as well. Him and John Denver started in the early 70s around the time and both were extremely crucial to the folk-rock and pop-rock sound of the 70s. Although he died in 81, he is still very much popular today and his albums are still selling. Citybuild122 (talk) 16:37, 30 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Draft:Hubby Jenkins is probably classified wrong by me, as I'm new to ratings scales. Was I even meant to add a rating while it's in draft? Anyway, I'd love a review. KarenJoyce (talk) 19:08, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Looks like you have an AFC decline. If you'd like any help, please ping me or let me know at my talk page. North8000 (talk) 20:46, 13 April 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.