Guide:Writing and rating articles (Meta, no ontology)
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Evaluating the rating of an article is split up into two processes. Firstly, the following questions are considered, and negative tags are applied as necessary.
- Does the article cover all material in its scope?
- If there is little material because the subject is too narrow, the page is {{trivial}}, and likely to be deleted.
- If there is little or no material suitable for Kawachan, the page should be marked as requiring a {{domain}} move.
- If there significant material to discuss within the subject of the article under the context of Kawachan, but not all material is covered, the page is {{short}}, and additional information should be added.
- If the article does cover everything in its scope, is within the scope of Kawachan, and covers a wide range of material, good.
- Does the article make grammatical sense? Can it be understood?
- If not, it is {{crap}}, and should be rewritten.
- If yes, good.
- How much logical sense does it make?
- If it is entirely consistent with outside sources, then it has too much {{fact}}, and needs moar opinion and sarcasm.
- If it is inconsistent with itself, or with older articles on Kawachan, it is {{wrong}}, and should be edited to restore consistency.
- Since Kawachan is parody, statements need not be consistent with outside facts.
- However, once a statement is established on Kawachan, newer ones must conform to it.
- This helps to generate more humorous material.
- If it is consistent with itself and other Kawachan articles, but partially inconsistent with outside sources, good.
- Does the article have correct spelling, punctuation, grammar and formatting?
- If not, it requires {{cleanup}}.
- If so, good.
If not all four questions above resulted in a good, the process stops now. Otherwise, one goes on to less important criteria to choose a positive tag:
- What is the state of the links in the article?
- If there are few or no links, more need to be added.
- If there are lots of links, but a large proportion are red, either add more, change some of the link targets, or write new articles from the red links.
- If both the number and proportion of blue links is high, good.
- Piped links should be used only to add hidden content to phrases, as in the example in this sentence. They should not be used for changing the form of a word - use redirects for that.
- How is the article tagged?
- Rageboard will introduce a much more flexible tagging scheme; however the following are good rules of thumb.
- Does the article have an infobox (if one is appropriate) with all appropriate entries filled in?
- Is the article correctly placed in the category system, by both topic and type?
- Does the article reference or link to all appropriate database templates?
- If all of the above conditions are met, good.
- Is the article illustrated appropriately?
- Pictures and videos should be added to the article to illustrate it.
- If the article is generic or entirely philosophical and as such cannot be illustrated by normal media, consider adding diagrams.
- There are very few cases where an article cannot use any media at all.
- If the article contains appropriate media, good.
- Is the article split up into appropriate sections?
- Sections should be neither too long (more than two screens on a 1280x800 display) nor too short (less than two paragraphs).
- Sections should also be neither too many (more than 30 total, or more than 10 with a common parent) nor too few (less than three).
- Sections should focus on their content without repeating information elsewhere in the article.
- If there are overlapping parts of the subject, consider using a broader main section, with sub-sections for more unique parts.
- If there are many short sections, consider using a definition list instead.
- Consider splitting out sections that are very long or have a large number of sub-sections into separate articles.
- If sections are appropriate, good.
Finally, count up the number of good answers in the previous list, and apply a positive tag as follows: