Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-11-30/News and notes

The new book-class sounds interesting, but how does it affect the article quality ratings? While I would like to track the Books related to the WikiProjects I am involved with, I think it will do more harm than good to abandon the quality assessment. Why not just implement a tracking method that sits beside the assessment structure? Why can't something be GA-class and a book at the same time? Am I just missing something here? Road Wizard (talk) 21:36, 1 December 2009 (UTC)


 * It doesn't affect the quality rating. The book-class is for Wikipedia-Books which are collections of article (and which are all located at Wikipedia:Books/...). It's much closer to the template-class or category-class in purpose than it is to the C-Class or B-class. Does that answer your question? Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 21:45, 1 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I think I am starting to piece together what is involved.


 * When articles are included in a "book" they are listed on a page like Books/Politics. The related Wikiprojects can then add their banners to the talk page (Wikipedia talk:Books/Politics) and that is where they use the Book-class. Even though articles are included in the book list (like the article Parliamentary system in the politics book I linked to) the assessment on the talk page (Talk:Parliamentary system) retains the normal article quality rating.


 * In short, Book-class is only to be used for pages in Wikipedia:Books/(subpage) namespace. Is that a correct assessment of the situation? Road Wizard (talk) 21:57, 1 December 2009 (UTC)


 * It is indeed correct. Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 22:10, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Just a note- all good and featured topics are already in books; it was made one of the steps in the promotion process a few months back. There's been a push recently to expand these books to a logical size, i.e., make the book for the "Atlantic Hurricane season of 1941" be "1941 Hurricanes" and include articles that aren't in the good/featured topic, since it makes more sense that way. It's this latter step that needs volunteers, I think. -- Pres N  16:20, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Re Milestones, what's a "text unit"? --Dweller (talk) 14:45, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * If I've guessed correctly, a text unit is anything from a story to a news article to an entire book. JW.. &#91; T .. C  &#93;  01:33, 10 December 2009 (UTC)