Editing User talk:Rriegs

Why did you go through and change all those quality ratings?
[[User:Untrustedlife|Untrustedlife]] ([[User talk:Untrustedlife|talk]]) 00:53, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
:My apologies if the community feels it is important to discuss any quality ratings changes before they are made, but there are thousands of pages and I wanted to start the process of recognizing quality where it exists.  At first, I focused on pages with Unknown quality and made an effort to rate them equivalently to pages with similar content and appearance.  I then turned my eye to Tattered and Fine quality articles, and found that many of them were rated lower than they seemed to deserve.
:In general, my changes have adhered to the following pattern:
:*I added Tattered ratings to unrated creature pages that appeared to be automatically generated with no human edits.
:*I upgraded ratings for creature pages with added content and/or pictures.  It only takes a few tidbits of useful in-game information to elevate such articles to Exceptional.
:*I downgraded some Masterwork articles to Exceptional that either [[Dwarf Fortress Wiki:Quality#Masterwork|didn't "cover an important 'must-read' topic" or weren't "comprehensive on the subject"]].
:*On the other hand, I upgraded to Masterwork a few pages such as [[Dwarf]] and [[Cave-in]] that go into much greater depth than would be expected of a typical article.
:*I also upgraded a number of pages (e.g. [[Floor]]) from Fine to Superior or Exceptional that appeared to [[Dwarf Fortress Wiki:Quality#Superior|meet or exceed the requirements]].
:I have since observed that most automatically generated creature pages with no human edits are rated Fine, and given that they already contain a good deal of useful information, designating them Tattered (due to being a stub) does seem inappropriate.  I stopped decreasing their ratings after pages starting with "A" and will leave things as they are for the time being.  Further, I've now noticed that some of the articles I upgraded to Masterwork bear the [[Verify]] tag and so should be excluded if we strictly adhere to the rules.
:I still have a lot of the alphabet to go through under [[:Category:Fine Quality Articles|Fine]], but if the community prefers, I can pause my efforts to correct any further page ratings until consensus can be reached. --[[User:Rriegs|Rriegs]] ([[User talk:Rriegs|talk]]) 19:05, 22 September 2016 (UTC)