Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dance/Archive 4

heads-up on new article: Pilobolus (dance company)
Just thought you'd like to know that I've created a new article, timely given that the group performed on the recent 79th Academy Awards broadcast. It's only a first pass, others here should be able to improve it considerably. Dyanega 00:19, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Question about the so-called "Featured Article Asessments"
A man who goes by the user name Cswrye did a featured article assesment on the article on La Bayadere, which I pretty much re-wrote from top to bottom. For some reason he gave the article a 'B'. I have emailed him twice aleardy to ask him his rationale for such a rating, and he has ignored my messages. Its not that I care about the rating, I just wanted to know how he came to conclude that the article deserved this rating, being that nowhere does he explain it on the discussion page or anywhere else. It also seems that he came to rate this article on his own, which I feel is ridiculous - it should be done with feedback from members of the wikiproject dance. From the looks of things this user doesnt seem to me to have any business rating any ballet related article - he has no "credentials" for rating an article pertaining to ballet history, and yet he has still rated this article. Anyway, all of this made me wonder about these assessments, and thier relevance - Does anyone know how one goes about doing them? Can anyone do it? When one does one of these asessments, do they judge the article based on its importance to the wiki dance project, or do they judge it based on wether or not it meets the wikipedia guidelines? When one does judge the article, do they do it with others or on thier own? I am under the impression that this person did this assessment on his own, and had no feedback from others. Thanks a lot! --Mrlopez2681 19:57, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Where was the review done? Could you provide some links? Did you take it to WP:FAR? --Fang Aili talk 20:12, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

There was some miscommunication involved here. A little sleuthing reveals: Cswrye has not made any contributions to Wikipedia since January 10, 2007. I assume that he's on wikibreak, hence why he's not responding to your messages. However, I don't think that he actually meant to re-rate the article, he was just reverting what he perceived as vandalism. With your numerous edits today's version appears quite improved over the December 15th version and, to my untrained eye, looks better than Badbilltucker's original assessment. However, no single user can give an article "Featured" status without going through the formal process of WP:FAC.--Will.i.am 23:39, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) December 15, 2006: the article was rated B-class by Badbilltucker.
 * 2) December 17, 2006: an anonymous IP address with an interest in ballet changes the banner from B-class to FA-class (diff), which should only be done after the article becomes a Featured Article Candidate and passes the gauntlet of editors there).
 * 3) December 19, 2006: Cswrye reverts the edit, saying as much in his edit summary.