Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ballet/Archive 1

Ballet stubs
A quick request to the project members: if you see any  templates on pages on ballet, please REPLACE them with the  or  templates. The general stub category is currently so large that no one can use it. I went through a lot of ballet pages doing this, but I fear I may have missed many because I'm not so familiar with the content. Thank you!--Will.i.am 20:01, 21 November 2006 (UTC)


 * ps - I am VERY impressed with the way this project is coming together. I particularly like the "resources", and "photos" icons, which is a stellar idea.  If we ever get a Lindy Hop Wikiproject together we're going to steal it.--Will.i.am 20:01, 21 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks a bunch! You have to give all the credit to Keitei, she's the hard worker with the good ideas here :-)
 * I'd noticed the dance stub tags, I'll be sure to add that to our project guidelines. Thanks again! — E  ditor at L arge  ( speak )  20:49, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 16:08, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Baryshnikov has been selected as WikiProject:Biography's collaboration of the fortnight. Your help would be appreciated in moving the article towards featured status. Respusha will rule the world. - Mocko13 14:57, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

User:AlexNewArtBot - New Article Bot
Hi, I am in the trial runs of the User:AlexNewArtBot (see Bots/Requests_for_approval/AlexNewArtBot). The bot reads all the new articles for a day and puts suspected Ballet-related articles into User:AlexNewArtBot/BalletSearchResult, the articles are suppose to be manually put into the portal page and/or removed if irrelevant. Or whatever you want to do with them.

The list of rules are in User:AlexNewArtBot/Ballet, there is also the log on the User:AlexNewArtBot/BalletLog explaining the rules that sent an article to the search results (the log is cleared every day, so try to look into the history of the log). Please contact me if you are interested in the fine tuning of the rules

That is all. Any suggestions are welcome. Alex Bakharev 07:49, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

On the project's image that used to appear in stubs and talk templates
I have deleted Image:Xiomara reyes Giselle06 reversed.jpg, which the project used as its "official" image. The image, originally falsely tagged and uploaded to Commons as PD-self, is a copyright violation from Gene Shiavone]'s website and there is no applicable fair use to use it in the project's templates. Easy enough fix, find a nice free image and use it in Ballet-dance-stub and. Transclusion will take care of the rest, apologies for the inconvenience. Teke 04:46, 22 April 2007 (UTC)


 * HURR HURR HUMDEEDUM DOOBLIE-DOO --Anonymous —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.16.99.113 (talk) 07:01, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Use Paul foord (talk) 10:00, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Tulsa Ballet
Hello all. I just created a page for the Tulsa Ballet and I thought you might want to bring it under your project's umbrella. Feel free to let me know what you think. Please contact me at my personal talk page. Nrswanson 06:37, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Who is assessing these articles?
I was rather shocked to find that John Lanchbery was put into the same so-called "level of importance" as Marius Petipa. Who is doing these assesments and what is their expertise in the field of ballet to know what is important and what is not?

What exactly is the criteria for these "assesments"? are they being assessed based on their imprtance to the art of ballet or their imprtance with regards to the quality of the way the article follows the wikipedia guidlines?

--Mrlopez2681 03:23, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

ClueBot incorrectly marked WikiProject Ballet as inactive
I removed the erroneous markup -- doing so is permitted -- and posted on User talk:ClueBot Commons the following:

WikiProject Ballet is not inactive! Every member of WikiProject Ballet has contributed since the beginning of 2007, all but three during the past month; it is a small project but its members far more active than most! Robert Greer 17:26, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Ballets by choreographer
Category:Ballets by choreographer is under discussion at CFD. The category had been empty for some time but there are subcats in Category:Ballets that might be categorized there. Comment from those with some more specific knowledge of the topic would be most welcome to help generate consensus. Otto4711 (talk) 23:51, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

no longer empty
It is now well populated! — Robert Greer (talk) 22:58, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

ABT, NYCB, Ballets Russes and Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
There is discussion on Categories for discussion/Log/2008 January 11 of the categories for ABT and NYCB dancers and Ballets Russes (and Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo) choreographers. It is proposed that these categories be deleted! One may post a comment there. Robert Greer (talk) 11:29, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Dance styles & dance repertoire
See the thread at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dance Paul foord (talk) 21:17, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

California Riverside Ballet
California Riverside Ballet as it stands does not look notable. Paul foord (talk) 10:03, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Category:Ballet articles needing attention
A new category Category:Ballet articles needing attention Paul foord (talk) 10:20, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Freddie Mercury - why is he covered by this project?
There is nothing at Freddie Mercury to indicate why he is considered for coverage by this project. Paul foord (talk) 00:38, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Tidying WP Dance including |Ballet=yes
Tidying WP Dance to get it to work better is being discussed at User_talk:Happy-melon. Eventually will become redundant Paul foord (talk) 02:44, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

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Portal link on ballet pages
Hi. I see that The Seven Deadly Sins has a portal link on the page. I'm wondering if you have a policy of doing this on articles? Is there a precedent for this? Thanks and regards. -- Klein zach  07:26, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

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Freddie Mercury and Witold Lutoslawski
I have changed the template from to  for Freddie Mercury and Witold Lutosławski as I can find no significant ballet connection other than that the latter permitted his Dance Preludes to be used for ballet. Is this enough connection to restore or should the template be removed completely from Lutoslawski's talk page? Similarly, Freddie Mercury did perform in 1979 with the Royal Ballet and Bejart did use his music, but for a D.V.D. release one wants to be strict in such matters. — Robert Greer (talk) 00:42, 16 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Freddy directly references Nijinsky's Afternoon of a Faun in Queen's "I Want to Break Free" Video. Don't know if this is relevant or weighty enough for these purposes, though.  :o)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hMrY8jysdg (shortly after 2 min) -Mark 207.237.61.26 (talk) 02:49, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

MFD
This is not an MFD of anything that's particularly important, but the use of catmain has resulted in some frankly bizarre redirects to pages, and I think we should at least discuss what to do with them. I've set up Miscellany_for_deletion/Ballet_redirects in order to do so. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 05:27, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Portal links
Hi and greetings! I've seen a number of Ballet Portal links on article pages recently and I'd like to explain why I've removed some of them. The system on Wikipedia is to put these links on talk pages, see Portal: '' "While the top-level portals are linked to directly from the Main Page, individual portals are linked by placing portal on a page. However, in the main namespace, these templates should not be placed in articles, but instead should be located at the top of an article's talk page . . ." ''. I hope this clarifies things. Happy New Year etc. -- Klein zach  11:09, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

First woman
Who was the first female Ballet master in the world? Does anyone know?--85.226.41.66 (talk) 15:40, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

That would surely be ballet mistress, no? PrimateMover (talk) 06:51, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

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International Ballet Competition
Howdy - not a ballet member, nor do I know much on the subject. Until recently the International Ballet Competition article redirected to USA International Ballet Competition - a clear bit of cultural bias. I've replaced the redirect with a disambiguation page. I'm hoping one or more of you good people would care to produce a few words on the many other international ballet competitions (a quick web search found: Varna, Moscow, New York, Helsinki, Japan, South Africa and Shanghai). The current USA International Ballet Competition implies that several of these are in fact the same competiton, rotating through a number of venues - however the websites of the various organisations don't seem to agree with this.

So .. anyone here know about this subject? - TB (talk) 19:54, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

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Are there enough articles on this subject to justify an Outline of ballet?
By the way, here's a relevant discussion about subject development you might find interesting.

Now back to the question...

The Transhumanist 01:14, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Should all ballet choreography articles be merged with ballet composer articles?
There is quite a heated discussion going on over at WikiProject Classical music proposing that the appropriate naming convention is for the work to bear the name of the composer, not the choreographer. The particular ballet proposed for merger is Ondine (Ashton) with Undine (Henze). Unfortunately the poll is on the WikiProject Classical music talk pages, where composers and choreographers may not necessarily be held in the same regard. The justification could be hard to track if the merger goes ahead, especially when the talk page is archived. It is also possible that the outcome of this proposal could set a standard which will be applied over all ballet articles. If you have an opinion on this particular ballet or the format of all ballet choreographer / composer articles, please could you make constructive comments on the WikiProject Classical music page? Thanks. Scillystuff (talk) 22:28, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Category:Ballet terminology
Some terminology cats have been controversially emptied, so I have added this lead to Category:Ballet terminology: "This category is for ballet terms. It should not be depopulated." You may decide to remove this or strengthen the wording or whatever as you please. This is just to draw your attention to the issue. -- Klein zach  04:23, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

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Categories for 'creative works', including Category:Works by choreographer
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Black Swan
Hello, I am working on Black Swan (film), a ballet film that is premiering at the Venice Film Festival today. My forte is film, and I have been working on the article using film-related references. I ask editors here to review the article about usage of ballet terminology and also request help finding ballet-related references to use. Are there any ballet periodicals that will likely cover the film in the near future? Thanks, Erik (talk &#124; contribs) 16:55, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

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Disambiguation hatnotes on Octet (Martins) and Octet (Christensen)
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The Bandits (ballet)
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CFD Category:Ballets designed by Mark Stanley
Heads-up: Categories for discussion/Log/2011 November 5. – gpvos (talk) 13:39, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Taylor dab
Is there any reason the disambig page Taylor should be under the purview of WP:Ballet? Dkreisst (talk) 10:39, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Yes, Janie Taylor, a New York City Ballet principal dancer, is listed on the Taylor disambig page, hence the Ballet template with class=Dab. — Robert Greer (talk) 15:48, 27 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Do you know what other wikiprojects list their project on the talk page of disambiguation pages that happen to have an article that relates to them on it? I have not seen any.  I could see maybe attaching WP:Ballet to a disambiguation page like Petipa because so many of the articles within it relate to ballet, but, honestly it seems to stretch the scope of WP:Ballet too wide to claim a disambiguation page like Taylor when, if other wikiprojects were to do the same, it could easily encompass more wikiprojects than would be useful to anybody viewing the talk page. Dkreisst (talk) 21:43, 27 January 2012 (UTC)


 * I don't see that the presence of a project template on the talk page of an disambiguation page that bears the name of a person of significance to said project is a violation of any guideline, and would refer anybody ojbecting to such to Ownership of articles. Ballet-related articles are subject to a good deal of vandalism, and being able to find them by way of links to their talk page from the Ballet template is an effective way of monitoring this. — Robert Greer (talk) 22:48, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Tchaikovsky Featured Article Review proposal
See here - comments welcome.--Smerus (talk) 21:36, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Rediects for discussion: Chalnessa Eames
Here. Could be useful as a conversation in general redirect usage within WP:Ballet. Dkreisst (talk) 05:30, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Ballet will have interest in putting on events related to women's roles in ballet. I also shared this with WP:Dance! We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 18:57, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Ballet Navigation Bar
I'm busy churning out some articles on the major companies that are not yet in Wikipedia (eliminating red links in Ballet company. I'm adding the navigation bar for Ballet to the bottom of each new article as I create them, but I've given up adding the links to the "Companies" area of the navigation bar itself -- there are just too many companies to easily list in the navigation bar, unless it stretches on into infinity ... Too much of a good thing? Anyway, I was thinking of addressing this space problem by adding links to regions on the nav bar, which would direct the reader to the section hashtag for each region on the Ballet company article's list (it's organized by region, eg Europe, Middle East, North America, etc.). I wanted to post the idea here and see what comments or other suggestions others might have, before I go and try to change the nav bar. OttawaAC (talk) 01:46, 15 March 2012 (UTC)


 * I was thinking that the number of companies on the Ballet navigation bar was already unwieldy. I don't see any problem with making links to regions to list the companies.  It seems that that is what is done with the "Dancers" and "Ballet by region" sections of the bar, except that, with the "Dancers" section at least, that doesn't even link to an article, just a category, so you are already ahead of the game.
 * The other option is to have a nice long discussion about what companies are notable enough to get a place on the bar. I'd be up for that also, but I'd probably be learning more that contributing. Dkreisst (talk) 20:30, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month follow-up
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Harmful feet positions in article
Hello. The photos in Positions of the feet in ballet illustrate a very bad way of doing positions, which could damage one's knee. The same applies to the photos in commons:Category:Ballet positions. Wondering if you could overwrite those photos with correctly performed positions. Thank you, --LoStrangolatore (talk) 15:00, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

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Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:26, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
 * – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Ballet
Portal:Ballet, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ballet and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Ballet during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. UnitedStatesian (talk) 06:46, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Women's History Month is in March
Hi everyone at WikiProject Ballet!

Women's history month is around the corner, in March, and we're planning the second WikiWomen's History Month.

This event, which is organized by volunteers from the WikiWomen's Collaborative, supports improving coverage about women's history during the month of March. Events take place both offline and online. We are encouraging WikiProjects to focus on women's history related to their subject for the month of March. Ideas include:
 * Women's roles as performers, directors, writers and instructors in the ballet.
 * The importance of women's roles in ballet
 * Music, works and styles of ballet that have specifically impacted women and women's history

We hope you'll participate! You can list your your project focus here, and also help improve our to-do list. Thank you for all you do for Wikipedia and stop by my talk page with any questions! SarahStierch (talk) 00:14, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

WikiProject Dance: Determining Notability
Hello, I’m writing here because ofWikiProject Ballet's close relation toWikiProject Dance. Myself and another editor, User:Mwacha are interested in developing some notability guidelines on WikiProject Dance for dancers, dance critics, performers, and other genre articles as there is no such thing at the moment comparable to what I have heard other editors use for Visual Arts, IE “if they are collected in a major museum, then they are considered notable.” There are of course exceptions to this standard but it is nice to have a rule of thumb to help with AfD, and other moderated discussions. We hope to start this discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dance under Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dance.OR drohowa (talk) 18:56, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Dalal Achcar
Dear ballet experts: Is this old AfC submission about a notable dancer? Are there references that are not in English? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 06:13, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Forthcoming ballet editathon, Covent Garden
The Royal Opera House and Wikimedia UK are running a ballet editathon at Covent Garden, London on Saturday 25 October 2014. The focus will be on the ballets of Kenneth MacMillan Lunch and experts provided! Click here for more details and to sign up.  Tim riley  talk    11:55, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Misty Copeland PR
Misty Copeland could use a reviewer at WP:PR.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 03:22, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Ballet navbox transcluded on 1400+ pages
As per WP:BIDIRECTIONAL, navboxes generally should only be placed on the articles they link to. Ballet is currently transcluded on over 1400+ articles. Is there any reason to ignore BIDIRECTIONAL in this case? A recent bot request requested a bot to be created to remove the excess transclusions, so I'm trying to gauge community opinion on doing so. ~ RobTalk 11:11, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
 * The answer to your question is no. Thanks for asking and for your work. Dkreisst (talk) 09:28, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Aplomb content problems
Some phrasing and other content problems have popped up at aplomb. Comments and input from informed editors would be welcome at the associated discussion. Lambtron (talk) 18:00, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

RfC about use of Template:Ballet in an article
You may be interested in the RfC at Talk:Agnes_de_Mille. ~ RobTalk 15:57, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Misty Copeland at WP:FAC
Please join the discussion at Featured article candidates/Misty Copeland/archive1.--TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:24, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Auto-assessment of article classes
Following a recent discussion at WP:VPR, there is consensus for an opt-in bot task that automatically assesses the class of articles based on classes listed for other project templates on the same page. In other words, if WikiProject A has evaluated an article to be C-class and WikiProject B hasn't evaluated the article at all, such a bot task would automatically evaluate the article as C-class for WikiProject B.

If you think auto-assessment might benefit this project, consider discussing it with other members here. For more information or to request an auto-assessment run, please visit User:BU RoBOT/autoassess. This is a one-time message to alert projects with over 1,000 unassessed articles to this possibility. ~ RobTalk 22:18, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Monteverdi peer review
User:Brianboulton and I have sought to significantly expand, and improve the quality of, the article on Claudio Monteverdi and would be very grateful for any comments at the Peer Review which we have just launched here. Many thanks, Smerus (talk) 16:15, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Claudio Monteverdi for FA
Following a very helpful peer review, Brianboulton and I have now resolved to subject the article to an FA candidature, and welcome all and any constructive comment. --Smerus (talk) 16:47, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Maria Tallchief § Google Doodle traffic
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Maria Tallchief § Google Doodle traffic. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 19:47, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

Category:Miscellaneous ballet character redirects to lists has been nominated for deletion
Category:Miscellaneous ballet character redirects to lists has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. -B RAINULATOR 9 (TALK) 02:15, 22 February 2021 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:00, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments are used by Wikipedia editors to rate the quality of articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project decides to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 20:15, 9 April 2023 (UTC)