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LyricWiki:Page ranking
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- This is the policy page for the Page Ranking system. For an introduction to the same, see Help:Page ranking
LyricWiki has developed a new system of page ranks to establish which pages need help, and what kind of help they need. There are different requirements for songs, albums and artists. But all pages receive a star and detail their progress on their "talk" page.
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[edit] Stars
For reference purposes, a page without any rating is considered black (
).
[edit] Green
Green pages are new, fresh out of the oven, hot off the presses. Typically a bot has made it and it's in serious need of human attention. Ideally, someone will adopt the page by watching it.
[edit] Violet
Some pages have special needs. Usually, these revolve around non-English language and the unique challenges they present to webpages. Violet pages are tagged with a {{Code Purple}} and a general topic of the problem. Specifying a sub-type to the problem greatly helps the people with the right kind of expertise find the page.
[edit] Bronze
In the Olympics, bronze means you're on the podium, at least receiving a medal. On LyricWiki it means someone is watching a page, protecting it from vandals, and working to improve it. The ball is rolling!
[edit] Silver
Silver pages have got all the information they need and now await one, final person: someone who can verify their contents empirically.
[edit] Gold
Gold pages are perfect! Well, there may be the odd change with time and outside information may change, but all the boxes are filled and all their parts have been checked out. These pages are good to go!
[edit] Watching and Certifying
Watching means adding the page to your Special:Watchlist. Click on the "watch" tab above a page or the "Watch this page" checkbox while editing to watch a page. Then, in your Special:Preferences you can elect to be notified via email when these pages change. (There is also the new feature, Special:WatchlistFeed, so you can watch via RSS.) This is strongly encouraged so you can check in on your pages and protect them from spammers. Check your watchlist often and click "diff" to see what changes someone made to one of your pages. Report vandals and help newcomers to meet our editing standards. Watching means a page is no longer adrift and is progressing forward.
A page is certified when someone has checked its content with an outside authority. This is typically the final step of a page in the ranking system, as this is the hardest information to get. It will come after all information has been gathered from around the net or other sources. Use the {{Cert}} template to add the certificate to a page. Include your username; and a brief description of where you got your information and the date.
[edit] Songs, Albums and Artists
While the overall process is similar, there are differences amongst the kinds of pages we have here on LyricWiki. Songs need all the applicable parameters of both {{Song}} and {{SongFooter}} filled in and a {{Wikipedia}} link placed on the page if an article exists on the song. Albums need cover art, genre, length, ASIN and iTunes links, and also a Wikipedia link if an article exists for the album. Artist pages need to be completed as fully as possible, with major releases in chronological order and cover art, links to any relevant LW pages, and a Wikipedia link if an article exists on the artist. The artist info in the footer at the bottom of the artist's page also needs to be completed as fully as possible, including the address of the artist's official site. Needless to say, 'Other Songs' lists should also be dealt with.
[edit] How To Rank Pages
- For Artist pages see: Help:Page ranking/Artists
- For Album pages see: Help:Page ranking/Albums
- For Film pages see: Help:Page ranking/Films
- For Song pages see: Help:Page ranking/Songs
[edit] Internal mechanisms
[edit] Categories
- Main article: Category:Page rank categories
Additionally, there exist categories for unlabeled songs, albums, films and artists which automatically receive the Black Star. These categories should be kept empty.
[edit] Templates
- see also Category:Page rank templates
| Location | Article page | Talk page | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kind of page | Open collapsible section | Establish rank | Show "to do" list | List watchers | Specify problem kind | Verified | Close collapsible section | |
| Song | part of {{Song}} | {{Star Box}} | {{Song Rank}} | {{Song Info}} | {{Watcher}} | {{Code Purple}} | {{Cert}} | |} |
| Album | part of {{Album}} | {{Album Rank}} | {{Album Info}} | |||||
| Film | part of {{Film}} | {{Film Rank}} | {{Film Info}} | |||||
| Artist | {{Star}} | {{Artist Rank}} | {{Artist Info}} | |||||
The template {{Star Box}} "wraps" around the other templates, so they can be hidden. It puts them in a collapsible section. At the top of these talk pages, {{skiptoTOC}} template is automatically supplied. If users click on this, they can skip down to the real conversations. Just be sure to start with Star Box and end with a |}.
[edit] Images
for new page |
for special-needs pages |
for beginner page |
for wikified pages |
for perfected pages |
verification icon |
 shows nobody watching |
 shows 1 watcher |
 shows 2 watchers |
 shows 3 watchers |
 shows 4 watchers |
 shows 5+ watchers |
 Big, snazzy GoEar |
 "Not Applicable" |
 Done! |
 fLetter = first letter |
 LP = album |
 DJ = artist |
 YouTube |
 Playing record = song |
 Amazon logo |
 iTunes logo |
 Wikipedia logo |
 World languages |
 Download icon |
 Code Purple |
 Indicates "length" |
 MusicBrainz logo (not icon) |
 For release date |
 Genre - put the song in a box? |
 Where's the cover art? |
 All the songs |
 Home ... town |
 "Other Songs" needs work |
 Plural of LW logo |
 Handing over the internet |
 Hand-done MySpace logo |
 Every album |
Black star to reference unsorted pages |
 Japanese Wikipedia |
 All Your Base Are Belong to Us! |
 |Romans jamming |
 A Roman circle-mosaic |
 A Roman soldier |
 Japanese in Japanese |
 Goku from Dragonball meets Linux |
 Credit cards, symbolizing song writing "credits" |
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