Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Louisville/Assessment
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[edit] Suggestion for revised importance scale
I've been thinking about the current importance scale and the criteria for each level. I'm not completely satisfied with them. Or rather, I'm not completely satisfied with the wording (it's not elegant, in my opinion). So, as an alternative:
Top-importance: Those articles which contain essential knowledge about Louisville that anyone, visitor or resident, should know. Examples include the main Louisville article, the Kentucky Derby, the Slugger Museum, Muhammad Ali, etc.
High-importance: Those articles which are about common-knowledge subjects pertaining to Louisville. A resident is almost guaranteed to know about it, and most visitors will at least be aware of the subject. For example, Jerry Abramson, the Falls of the Ohio, the Louisville skate park, etc.
Mid-importance: Articles about subjects which are fairly well-known in the community, but may be obscure trivia otherwise. For example, the Jefferson County Public Schools, Jeffersontown, some of the major high schools (though a couple, such as Male and Manual, probably go into the high-importance category), colleges (as opposed to universities), etc. Major cities other than Louisville probably go here, such as Clarksville, New Albany, and Shepherdsville.
Low-importance: Articles about subjects unfamiliar to even the residents. Examples would probably include all the neighborhoods unless there were something exceptional. Nearly all K-12 schools should go here unless there were something that merited the higher classification. Biographies of people whose only connection to the city is being born or raised here should go here (e.g., all the sports people)
One thing that I don't know what to do with - those articles which are probably of higher importance to the tourists than the visitors. For example, I was evaluating the National Quartet Competition (or something like that), and I had a dilemma because in southern gospel music, the NQC is fairly well-known, but around here, I was thinking, what? Or the Sons of the American Revolution. I didn't know that was based here. Perhaps we need a class for such articles?
