LyricWiki:Page ranking
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- This is the policy page for the Page Ranking system. See also Help: Page Ranking.
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This page documents an official LyricWiki policy, a widely accepted standard that all users should follow. Before editing this page, please make sure that your revision reflects proper standards. When in doubt, discuss first on the talk page. |
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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Stars 
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For reference purposes, a page without any rating is considered black (
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Green Edit
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 following it.
Violet Edit
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.
Bronze Edit
In the Olympics, bronze means you're on the podium, at least receiving a medal. On LyricWiki it means someone has checked the page and verified that it deserves to remain. These pages are still in need of attention.
Silver Edit
Silver pages have all the important information filled out and as such are almost complete. This includes information such as the album for song pages and a wikipedia link for artist pages. They also have someone watching them, protecting them from vandals (see below).
Gold Edit
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 by means of certifying (see below). These pages are good to go!
Watching and Certifying Edit
Added by Randomguy3Watching means adding the page to your Special:Watchlist. Click on the "follow" link in the bottom left of 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.
Certifying applies only to song pages. Certifying a song involves listening to the recorded version of the song whilst reading the lyrics to check that the lyrics are "as sung". Once this has been confirmed, use the {{Cert}} template to add the certificate to the talk page.
Songs, Albums and Artists Edit
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.
How To Rank PagesEdit
- 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
The Stunningly Stellar Star-o-MeterEdit
| Unranked | Violet | Green | Bronze | Silver | Gold | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artists | 0 pages | 93 pages | 62,792 pages | 4,754 pages | 34 pages | 42 pages |
| Albums | 0 pages | 3 pages | 80,209 pages | 15,628 pages | 214 pages | 716 pages |
| Singles | 0 pages | 0 pages | 2,641 pages | 814 pages | 27 pages | 184 pages |
| Songs | 0 pages | 46 pages | 1,124,794 pages | 138,723 pages | 3,687 pages | 11,970 pages |
| Films | 0 pages | 0 pages | 26 pages | 9 pages | 0 pages | 9 pages |
Internal mechanisms Edit
Categories Edit
- Main article: Category:Page rank categories
Additionally, there exist categories for unranked songs, albums, films and artists without a star. These categories should be kept empty.
Templates Edit
- see also Category:Templates/Page Ranking
| 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}} | N/A | ||||
| Film | part of {{Film}} | {{Film Rank}} | {{Film Info}} | |||||
| Artist | part of {{ArtistHeader}} | {{Artist Rank}} | {{Artist Info}} | |||||
- For songs with names in non-latin based scripts there is an additional Info template {{Extra Info/Ja}}.
- 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 |}.
