Wikipedia:WikiProject Westerns/Assessment/Requests

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2023

 * Pages related to the Yellowstone franchise: Yellowstone (American TV series), 1883 (TV series), 1923 (TV series), Bass Reeves (TV series), and likely more in the near future. Some, but not all, are approaching or exceeding B class. For at least the main Yellowstone article another question needs to be asked: isn't this mid importance - this show is easily the most influential Western on (US) television in recent times, and it is definitely one of the biggest (American) show full stop, across all time and all genres (production budgets, guest star actors, articles written etc) in recent times. CapnZapp (talk) 07:16, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I would agree that Yellowstone for sure should be at least mid importance - at least as far as the Westerns project is concerned (the other projects have their own criteria). Our criteria for importance actually needs to be reviewed (and probably revised) as it is rather unclear. For the Westerns project, the imporance assessment is intended to be based on what the work means to the genre.  Audience response and big production budgets are not all that important to that - they're an influence, but not the deciding factor.  What Sheridan is doing for the genre itself - that's what makes it a more important work.  Taylor Sheridan is not only widening the audience of the neo-Western genre, he's also pushing the boundaries of Contemporary Westerns and Revisionist Westerns (IMO).   Butler Blog   (talk) 14:44, 8 March 2023 (UTC)