I propose these rules for the ratings committee.
I) The Ratings Committee is made up of 9 members at any one time, and 1 sub-member. These nine members have Favor privileges overall all material except that they have written. The sub-member only has privileges over material that another ratings committee member has written.
II) Ratings Committee members must stay active. If they do not activately participate in favoring, reviewing, or improving articles in a two-week period, they will be replaced.
III) A Ratings Committee member can favor any article that they have not written. Doing so requires a short paragraph or more, made under its own topic-header in the discussion. Each favor gets its own topic header, and will follow a predetermined format (such as "Surgo's Favor" or "Favor 1" - to be decided).
IV) When an article has been favored at least once, it receives a Bronze Star. 3 favors gives an article a Silver Star, 6 a Gold Star, and 7 makes the article become a Favored Article. In order to be a true Favored Article, the author must provide a short description to allow featuring on the front page. A picture, while HIGHLY preferred, is not strictly required.
V) Requests for favoring may be made on a special page. Only the best articles should be submitted, and they should be submitted by someone OTHER than the author. When a request is made, each Ratings Committee member must look at the article, and provide some minor indication that they have read it. If it receives at least one favor, all Ratings Committee members are encouraged to read it before it is removed from the list. If it receives no favors after 4 reviews, it is removed from the list.
VI) When a Ratings Committee member steps down or is inactive for a long period of time, the sub-member becomes the Ratings Committee member. The sub-member inherits the old Ratings Committee favors. He may not re-favor an article that his direct predecessor favored, nor may he remove any favors. However, a replacement Ratings Committee member may still favor articles that were favored by a Ratings Committee member at least two positions back.
VII) When the sub-member steps into the new Ratings Committee spot, a new sub-member is chosen. This likely involves applications and a dart board, and is under the purview of Surgo.
Karrius 16:29, September 14, 2009 (UTC)
- Just curious, but at what point in this process would the RC confirm the balance point of the work? Should that sort of thing be worked out and generally accepted before it even gets a favoring request? TarkisFlux 17:14, September 14, 2009 (UTC)
- It should require a balance level category in order to be up for review. The raters can then tell whether it is balanced or not at that category.
- Regarding "V", I think that people should be able to submit their own stuff. If a user consistently submits stuff that is not favored and discarded, then we might need to change that rule. For now though, I see no problem trusting users to know when their content is ready for review. Maybe in the future we might need to require "X favored articles by a user" in order to allow them to submit their own for review. --Andrew Arnott (talk, email) 17:49, September 14, 2009 (UTC)
- Two things:
- I think there should be some sort of refractory period for rejected articles. For example, once being shot down (if such is the case), an article must wait two weeks (or some other period of time) before it can be re-nominated, regardless of how soon the author makes adjustments.
- Not quite as related, but if something gets to five or six favors with no picture, I think we as a community should probably be able to find one that is suitable by our combined efforts.
- -- Jota 18:11, September 14, 2009 (UTC)
- Two things: