Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Westerns/2023/April

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 22:31, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Episode list articles

I have recently been working through a number of Western television series and creating episode list articles; essentially for any series with 100 episodes or more that (1) had an episode list that was (2) not already a separate list article. In some cases, these were needed, and in others they were putting the cart before the horse a little bit, but that provides some needed article work going forward. The "technical" criteria for a split is when the article is around 50k of readable prose (see MOS:TVSPLIT). The general rule of thumb is when episodes are included, around 50 or more episodes would meet that criteria (1k for each episode), but that assumes an episode summary for each episode, which most of these do not yet have. Also, the parent articles could stand to be filled out after the split as some of them were a little light on content. I've started that process, but for anyone looking for something to contribute to the Westerns Television task force, the following is a list of articles and the episode lists that could use additional work:

• The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin => The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
• Lawman (TV series) => List of Lawman episodes
• Laramie (TV series) => List of Laramie episodes
• Fury (American TV series) => List of Fury episodes
• The Adventures of Kit Carson => List of The Adventures of Kit Carson episodes

There are a few more coming, but the above could use some work on expanding the main article and also on episode summaries in the list article. ButlerBlog (talk) 13:40, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

In addition to the above:

• The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok => List of The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok episodes
• Fury (American TV series) => List of Fury episodes
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre => List of Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre episodes

I only have one more that meets the existing project's qualifications, but I won't split it until I (or someone) can expand the parent article as a split really isn't necessary with what would be left afterwards (needs to have two viable articles rather than splitting just for the sake of splitting):

• State Trooper (TV series) => List of State Trooper episodes

ButlerBlog (talk) 18:11, 24 April 2023 (UTC)