Table:Levelling system

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Discussion

I have been thinking of copying a system that Wikipedia uses to decide what are good articles and what are... not so good articles. I am not directly copying the system, but only the idea. I propose our own system to more fit our needs.

The levelling system will consist of 5 levels, indicating the quality of an article, along with 3 focus levels (plus a null-level), indicating the focus and the attention the article needs.

The proposed quality levels are as follows:

Stub

The article have just begun, and have only has 1 or 2 sentences, and indicates very little.

Start

The article have described the content of the topic at hand, but fails to evaluate it or give a thorough description of the subject.

Developed

The article gives its readers a fair overlook of the subject at hand, but the article is still lacking touch.

Good

The article conforms to all standards set, and its description is thorough and broad.

Brilliant

The article meets all the requirements of a good article, and in addition has an extra touch that just makes it nice to read.

The first 3 levels can be picked by a bot (which will be the intend in the end, I will add some code to my bot which will decide whether an article is a stub, start or developed), the two latter levels will be picked by users, and the last level, Brilliant must be picked by a vote.

Featured (or previously featured) articles will be mentioned, but will not fall into the levelling system, but the levelling system will be a good indicator when to pick a featured article.

The proposed focus levels are as follows:

Null

A focus for this article has not been set (default)

C

Little or no focus

B

Medium focus

A

High focus

Each talk page for an article, will include a template on top indicating the levels and whether or not it has been featured before. The template have not yet been created. The first discussion is on whether this system works. --Svip^Talk 14:52, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

I like it. It'll let the users know which articles we can focus on, and it may draw attention to articles that are very stubby, so they can be expanded. --Buddy 17:25, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

I have further developed it, you can see Talk:List of title captions as well as Talk:The Time Bender Trilogy: Part 1 for articles currently using it. As you can see, it will possibly replace the {{featured}} template. In addition to that, I have written up an article explaining it here; Infosphere:Levelling system. --Svip^Talk 18:49, 6 March 2009 (UTC)