Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Shakespeare/Assessment

message: I just did a quick burn-through of all articles to weed out all of the clear start or stub class articles.  I hesitated to do the other articles because I think that many of them may gain from comments on why the rating given was given.  I didn't have time to give comments, yet.
Is there anything we should look for specifically in giving these comments? Wrad 20:44, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: First set of ratings

message: Also, I was thinking we may want to be more picky than myself and others originally thought about giving out top-importance ratings.  I think otherwise we would be in danger of spreading ourselves thin by not prioritizing well.  Maybe we should make a rough top 10 of most important articles in the project, and then discuss where to go from there.
Here is a first draft (not necessarily in order):
#William Shakespeare
#Romeo and Juliet
#Hamlet
#Macbeth
#Julius Caesar (play)
#Henry V (play)
#The Tempest
#King Lear
#Shakespeare's plays
#Shakespeare's sonnets
So, basically, I'm putting this up for debate.  The top articles may or may not actually be important in the sense of scholarship (otherwise the authorship question would be up here), but in the sense that lots of people will be looking at them, so they are important in making our project look good.  I tried to outline the articles people would likely look at, especially ones covering broad subjects or popular plays.
Any suggestions or comments? Wrad 20:44, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think importance scale is really pointless for a cultural and literary icon like Shakespeare.  We can do away with it. With the deluge of scholarship and references to him, even anything remotely related gains a lot more significance. Mandel 10:08, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more 'important.'" Was there a discussion leading to this scale's enforcement?  Sounds more like "Popularity scale" than Importance scale to me. Mandel 10:14, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

text: And putting my Edits where my mouth is, I've gone through the remaining Unassessed Shakespeare articles and given them both |class= and |importance= (Quality and Importance) ratings. Some of them were probably a bit hit and miss, so it's probably not a bad idea to keep an eye out for badly rated articles in the course of your normal editing.--Xover 13:37, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Importance scale

message: Although Shakespeare's treatment of the character is only a small part of the content of the article, I have discussed the treatment of the character by the Bard in Troilus and elsewhere and also Dryden's attempts at "improvement". You may wish to put the article in your statistics. If you do, I wouldn't mind a Shakespearean view on anything else that should be covered in the Shakespeare and Dryden section. --Peter cohen 23:22, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Troilus]] now GA 

message: The topic was discussed above in a different light, but that was between 24 and 21 months ago.  I'm also not quite sure it came to any solid conclusion.  User:Xover put it best by saying "I think most of us probably have a gut feeling about the importance of any given Shakespeare related article."  However, what I propose to change is very simple:
List every play as "Top" importance.  That's not that many, and even fewer to change.  The fact that plays like Othello and Twelfth Night are High-, not Top-importance, and that all the Henry's are marked as Med is a pretty big oversight in my oh-so-humble opinion.  Let me know how you guys feel; if there's agreement I'll make the changes.
In semi-related news, I removed the  from Tempest, as there's no point having a disambiguation page marked as High importance. ~ Amory (talk) 06:50, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top Vs. High Importance 

message: I would like to request an assessment for the article on Samuel Daniel, which I have substantially revised recently. The link on the main Project Page here, that is supposed to take you to a section on assessments requests, does not seem to be working, unless I'm missing something (if I am, my apologies). Is there an official way for me to put in a request for an assessment.Musophilus (talk) 17:50, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Samuel Daniel