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Welcome to the assessment department of the R&B and Soul Music WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's R&B and Soul Music related articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject R&B and Soul Music}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:R&B and Soul Music articles by quality and Category:R&B and Soul Music articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

As of 4 December 2024, there are 14,441 articles within the scope of WikiProject R&B and Soul Music, of which 168 are featured. This makes up 0.17% of the articles on Wikipedia and 1.51% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 34,622 pages in the project.

How can I get my article rated?

Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.

Who can assess articles?

Any member of the R&B and Soul Music WikiProject is free to add or change the rating of an article.

Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments?

Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, we are unable to leave detailed comments in most cases. If you have particular questions, you might ask the person who assessed the article; they will usually be happy to provide you with their reasoning.

What if I don't agree with a rating?

You can list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again.

Aren't the ratings subjective?

Yes, they are, but it's the best system we've been able to devise; if you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Banner Shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject R&B and Soul Music}} project banner on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.

The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):

FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class R&B and Soul Music articles)		FA
A (adds articles to Category:A-Class R&B and Soul Music articles)		A
GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class R&B and Soul Music articles)		GA
B (adds articles to Category:B-Class R&B and Soul Music articles)		B
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class R&B and Soul Music articles)		C
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class R&B and Soul Music articles)		Start
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class R&B and Soul Music articles)		Stub
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class R&B and Soul Music articles)		FL
List (adds articles to Category:List-Class R&B and Soul Music articles)		List

For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:

NA (for any other pages where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class R&B and Soul Music articles)		NA
??? (articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in Category:Unassessed R&B and Soul Music articles)		???

After assessing an article's quality, any comments on the assessment can be added to the article's talk page.

An article's importance assessment is generated from the

importance parameter in the {{WikiProject R&B and Soul Music}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject R&B and Soul Music| ... | importance=??? | ...}}

Top

High

Mid

Low

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The following values may be used for importance assessments:

• Top - The article is about one of the core topics of R&B and Soul Music. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance R&B and Soul Music articles
• High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of R&B and Soul Music. Adds articles to Category:High-importance R&B and Soul Music articles
• Mid - The article is about a topic within the field that may or may not be commonly known outside the R&B and Soul Music community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance R&B and Soul Music articles
• Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the R&B and Soul Music field and is not generally common knowledge outside the community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance R&B and Soul Music articles
• Unknown - Any article which has not yet been assessed on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance R&B and Soul Music articles.

Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editor's experience	Example
Top	The article is one of the core topics about R&B and Soul Music. Generally, this is limited to those articles that are included as sections of the main R&B and Soul Music article.	A reader who is not involved in the field of R&B and Soul Music will have high familiarity with the subject matter and should be able to relate to the topic easily.	Articles in this importance range are written in mostly generic terms, leaving technical terms and descriptions for more specialized pages.	R&B and Soul Music
High	The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding R&B and Soul Music.
Mid	The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in the history of R&B and Soul Music.	Many readers will be familiar with the topic being discussed, but a larger majority of readers may have only cursory knowledge of the overall subject.	Articles at this level will cover subjects that are well known but not necessarily vital to understand R&B and Soul Music. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text. Most people involved in R&B and Soul Music will be rated in this level.
Low	The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of R&B and Soul Music.	Few readers outside the R&B and Soul Music field may be familiar with the subject matter. It is likely that the reader does not know anything at all about the subject before reading the article.	Articles at this range of importance will often delve into the minutiae of R&B and Soul Music, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed. Topics included at this level include most practices and infrastructure of R&B and Soul Music.

If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below.

• Skiing In The Snow — successful UK chart hit and one of the most notable tracks in Northern soul. One Of Seven Billion (talk) 12:38, 3 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• The Supreme Florence Ballard — the lone album release/compilation by legendary Florence Ballard, founding member of The Supremes. JonathanLGardner (talk) 20:56, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Ungodly Hour — critically aclaimed, grammy-nominated studio album by American R&B duo Chloe x Halle. 110.136.154.214 (talk) 15:18, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

R&B and Soul Music articles: Index · Statistics · Log

The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.

• An Evening with Silk Sonic (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to GA-Class. (rev · t)
• Easy (Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell album) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• Milli Vanilli (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Mid-Class. (rev · t)
• The Complete Duets (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
• The DeBarges (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)

• I Need a Girl (Taeyang song) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Taemin (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as B-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Directions In Groove renamed to Directions in Groove.

• An Evening with Brian McKnight (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Heaven (Nina Girado song) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to C-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
• List of number-one R&B singles of 1994 (U.S.) (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
• List of number-one R&B singles of 1995 (U.S.) (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
• List of number-one R&B singles of 1996 (U.S.) (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
• List of number-one R&B singles of 1997 (U.S.) (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
• List of number-one R&B singles of 1998 (U.S.) (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
• List of number-one R&B singles of 2005 (U.S.) (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Love, Oh Love (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Low-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
• SM Station Season 1 (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
• Too Hot ta Trot (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)

• 25th The Best - Alive (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Directions in Groove (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)

• Jason Derulo (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Mid-Class. (rev · t)

• Draft:Young Rebillionaire (talk) removed.

• Merciless (album) renamed to Merciless.

• (I Like) The Way You Love Me (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
• Long Distance (Brandy song) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from NA-Class to C-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from NA-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Intro (Intro album) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Merciless (Stephanie Mills album) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)

• Long Distance (song) renamed to Long distance.
• Missionary Man (Eurythmics song) renamed to Missionary Man (song).
• Please, Please, Please renamed to Please, Please, Please (James Brown song).

• I Only Want to Be with You (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• Ken Hirai (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
• Lindsey Abudei (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
• My Love (The-Dream song) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
• Outside (Mariah Carey song) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to GA-Class. (rev · t)
• Poison (Bell Biv DeVoe album) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
• The Best (song) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• The Bottle (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
• These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)

• Crush (singer) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Eric Nam (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Loco (rapper) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Long Distance (Brandy song) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Missionary Man (song) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Moana 2 (soundtrack) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Please, Please, Please (James Brown song) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)

• Draft:Onecd (talk) removed.

• Pray for Me (song) renamed to Pray for Me.

• Bladee (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)
• Crying in the Chapel (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• SM Station Season 1 (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

• Jackson Wang (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Pray for Me (The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar song) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)

• Snooze (song) renamed to Snooze.
• Static (song) renamed to Static.

• Frankie and Johnny (song) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• That's What Friends Are For (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• The Jacksons Live! (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Tribute (John Newman album) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)

• Snooze (SZA song) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as GA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)
• Static (James Brown song) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)