Dungeons and Dragons Wiki talk:Rating Articles

RC Replacement

I consider the Rating Committee a failure in practice, even if it had potential as a concept. The members were never particularly active in their duties, are even less so now. As it was our vehicle for getting favored articles, and I would actually like to include those on the main page, I want to replace it.

I'm proposing the following:

• Anyone can rate an article (except their own). Seriously. Rating is still giving 0, 1, or 2 points, and you still add the points and the rater's name to the author block for tracking purposes.
• Bronze, silver, and gold ratings are removed. If an article has been rated, even if that rating is a 0, it gets a note that you should look at the talk page to see what people like or dislike about it. When an article gets 10 points, or five Great ratings, it gains Featured Article status (category).
• Featured articles get minor write-ups and are added to the front page in a random rotation (code for this is already setup, mostly). This step may need to be completed by an admin, depending on page protections.
• If an article gains this status and the community comes back and says that was a bad call, we remove it from rotation and the Featured category.

I understand there are potential problems with this setup, but none so bad that they outweigh the potential benefits of getting featured articles in rotation IMO. I currently plan on implementing this change in 2 weeks, but it's not fixed in stone and I'd appreciate thoughts and comments. - Tarkisflux 18:26, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Looks tasty. Can't hurt to try at the least. -- Eiji-kun 18:43, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

The only way I see it hurting is if retards rate stupid things highly. Also I'd add a caveat that you can't rate an article you created. Though that still carries a potential problem with sock-puppetry... --Ghostwheel 19:57, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Hence the community veto. And yeah, you still couldn't vote for your own stuff, should have made that clear. It's not like you rate something up and it automatically gets added though, someone would still need to write a blurb and make some changes to a partially/fully protected page. This would just open up the process of getting articles sufficiently rated to qualify for featured status. [Note - minor edits made to process above for clarity]. - Tarkisflux 20:22, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Bump. Clock is still ticking on this. Get your concerns in now, and marshal whatever community support for or against you feel appropriate :-) - Tarkisflux 07:21, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Actually do we need points? It could just be "Dislike" or "Like", and then the rating being based on the amount of each. Besides that, I don't have any issue. -- Eiji-kun 07:24, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

I don't actually care too much as long as there's a way to veto obviously retarded votes and I especially like the fact that it points people directly to the talk page so they can see the pros/cons of what's being debated. --Ghostwheel 07:33, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. Especially if raters are encouraged/required to explain their reasoning for like/dislike. --Genowhirl 08:23, 31 May 2011 (UTC)