RationalWiki talk:Article rating

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Just Plain Ignorant Articles

RationalWiki obviously needs this rating category. Some articles in the other sections belong in this one. ^{— Unsigned, by: Starchild / talk / contribs}

HIGH / MID / LOW ratings

Can we add an explanation for these ratings to this page? oʇɐʇoԀʇɐϽʎzznℲ (talk/stalk) 18:11, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Done, I think. CorruptUser (talk) 05:43, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

Suggestion

Have different types of brain - birdbrain, 'amoeba brain', 'brainwarped' etc. Anna Livia (talk) 16:02, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

A modest proposal

I suggest that for bronze articles we should require that there are no "naked URL" links (in other words, all citations are within <ref></ref> tags and are properly written citations. --Goatspeed. _{How's my editing}CircularRasoning^{See my experiments} 22:25, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

That sounds wise. Twodots ^{Annoy me} _{Look, ma!} 22:32, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

That's perfectly reasonable. I'd prefer that it would be a strong suggestion rather than a requirement, though. That kind of thing is usually pretty easy to clean up. —cosmikdebris ^talk stalk 22:36, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

Shouldn't it be a requirement if it's easy and improves the article's appearance? Twodots ^{Annoy me} _{Look, ma!} 22:39, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ I know this is stale, but I agree with the proposal per all of the above. --Andrew5 (talk) 16:26, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Proposal

I am proposing, for cover stories, that RW:DEMOTE be allowed to be used as well. --Andrew5 (talk) 16:35, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

Who rates articles?

Who is responsible for rating an article? Is there someone or a group of people here on RationalWiki responsible for that? Or can anyone rate an article? If so, is a vote required before rating any article? Yassine Mehdi (talk) 18:52, 12 August 2024 (UTC)

Generally, any user can add a bronze rating to an article. For silver and gold, use the RationalWiki:Articles_for_demotion articles for demotion page to initiate a discussion. —cosmikdebris ^talk stalk 19:20, 12 August 2024 (UTC)