Wikipedia:WikiProject Tennessee/Assessment

Welcome to the assessment department of WikiProject Tennessee! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Tennessee 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 Tennessee project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Tennessee articles by quality and Category:Tennessee 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 WikiProject Tennessee 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 assessment
After assessing an article's quality, comments on the assessment can be added to the article's talk page.

Priority assessment
An article's priority assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the WikiProject Tennessee project banner on its talk page:



Articles needing attention
If an article is in need of immediate attention (proper sourcing, significant cleanup, etc.), please denote this using the template as follows:

This will add the article to Category:Tennessee articles needing attention. Also, add your concerns to the article's talk page, so an editor wishing to address the problem(s) can focus their efforts.

Please review this category from time to time to see if you can help with an article needing attention. Once the major problems have been addressed, please remove the attention notation from the template on the talk page.

Merge action needed
When you propose a merge involving a WikiProject Tennessee article, please denote this using the template as follows:

This will add the article to Category:Tennessee articles needing merge action.

Please review this category from time to time to see if you can help reach a consensus on the proposed merge. Once a consensus is reached (and the merge is performed, if appropriate), please remove the merge notation from the template on the talk page.

Article review & dispute resolution
Older and resolved reviews can be found in the article review archive on the right.

Request an assessment
If you have


 * started a Tennessee related article article and would like an outside opinion on it


 * made significant changes to a rated Tennessee related article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it


 * found a Tennessee related articles that has not been reviewed yet

please feel free to list it below for an assessment.

Perry County, Tennessee Just did a pretty big overhaul and expansion of the page. Still some work to be done but any thoughts on where to go from here would be helpful. Thanks! --nf utvol (talk) 01:34, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

Richland Creek (Nashville, Tennessee) I have added to this stub article to expand it considerably. In its original form, the article incorrectly had the creek flowing in the opposite direction. Thanks, Eagledj (talk) 00:58, 7 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Great use of sources and illustrations! I'll update the rating to Good Article. ElToAn123 (talk) 16:35, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Baylor School added 01/02/2012 ✅ 13:20, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Hot chicken This article was started by me, details the particular "Hot chicken" style of fried-chicken that is rather unique to Nashville. Joelmoses 2000 (talk) 01:05, 21 October 2009 (UTC) 22:11, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Army of the Tennessee This article has previously been rated B, but has now been extensively revised and a new assessment would seem to be in order. Thank you. Hartfelt (talk) 15:02, 16 May 2009 (UTC) Previously assessed as A. 22:11, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Brandan Wright Worked on article and just added under project banner. Hoping for possible B-class rating. Thanx! WikiGuy86 (talk) 23:24, 19 August 2009 (UTC) Previously assessed as C. SBaker43 (talk) 22:11, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

James Edwards (radio host) This article is currently unassessed. Stonemason89 (talk) 15:55, 1 May 2010 (UTC) Article has been previously redirected to: The Political Cesspool.22:11, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Merlin Miller This article is currently unassessed. Stonemason89 (talk) 15:55, 1 May 2010 (UTC) Previously assessed.22:11, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Corrections Corporation of America This article is currently unassessed. Previously assessed. 22:11, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Millington, Tennessee This article has previously been rated a stub class article, but has now been extensively revised. I am requesting a new assessment. Thank-you. November 19, 2010 20:23, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Atoka, Tennessee This article is not complete, but could it be raised from a stub and from low importance? Suggestions welcome. User talk:SLBohrman I'm sorry, I signed this comment incorrectly. SLBohrman (talk) 22:16, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Cumberland Caverns. I have revised overhauled this article significantly by adding a picture and breaking the text into three sections, two of which I wrote myself and one of which I edited to raise the writing quality. Denlah (talk) 04:25, 8 January 2014 (UTC) Upgraded to C RageBanken (talk) 12:29, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Milan, Tennessee. This article is not complete, but has been drastically overhauled since its last review. Whomever reviews this article, please shoot me some feedback. I'll re-submit for review again in about a year with more fixes. I am under no dilusion that a city of this size will ever meet "FA" status, but I'm going to make it the best I can. Thanks for the time and consideration, don't forget to peek at the talk page (even if no one else talks, I document reasoning and thoughts there.) RageBanken (talk) 07:12, 11 April 2014 (UTC) ✅ 13:23, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Tims Ford State Park. I just finished creating this article. I'm aware that it probably qualifies as a stub, but I'm still interested in hearing feedback before I get to clearing the rest of the red links in the Tennessee Protected Areas category. Thanks! Chris (talk) 02:31, 6 October 2015 (UTC) ✅ 13:23, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Memphis Area Transit Authority I have updated information on this article, such as ridership. I have also reorganized the article to flow more similarly to other transit agency articles. I have also added information about Ready! and Groove. The corresponding list article had some unnecessary information, so I have moved that information to the main article. I believe these improvements warrant a change from stub-class to start-class. ElToAn123 (talk) 00:05, 12 March 2022 (UTC)


 * I've also added substantially to the history section using citations from The Commercial Appeal archives. I'd even argue that the article is C-Class now. The gap in the history section from 1963 to 2017 and lack of detail in the bus section keep it from being B-Class. ElToAn123 (talk) 21:48, 22 April 2023 (UTC)

Dispute an assessment
If your Tennessee related article has been rated and you do not agree with the rating, please keep in mind that assessments might not always be objective. Compare the article in question to the assessment standards for quality and importance as outlined above in this page. If you think the article in question meets higher standards than assessed, please feel free to list it below for a review.

The Southern College of Optometry article is no longer a stub, somewhere between a Start or a C. Hjk321 (talk) 17:39, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

Project review
If you are a member of the WikiProject Tennessee and want to suggest a Tennessee related article for review by other project members, please feel free to list it below.

Articles for deletion
If you have found a Tennessee related article that you think needs to be deleted, please feel free to list it below for a review.

Assessment Log

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

Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.