Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Media franchises/Assessment

Importance Assessments

So, here we are, ready to have a discussion on what the standards should be for the project. As a newcomer I am not exactly fit to understand this type of thing on my own so I am kind of just going based on what I understand of the project so far.

Here is the idea as I understand it. What are key elements to this project? What would you personally considered as the thing that is responsible for the thing that is responsible for the thing that is covered within this project? that should be the "top" importance. then high importance should be the thing that is responsible for the thing that is the bulk of the project's focus. Mid being the bulk of the articles. Finally low should be what is almost simply loosely related but is indeed something that as a project would benefit from our attention.

For example, I have seen a mention of a harry potter project possibly being included instead as a task force of the media franchises project. I would say things that we would suspect would fall within a task force of this project would clearly fall within the scope of mid importance.

For example, articles on the books and moves etc would fall into mid importance and perhaps characters would fall into low importance, while the actual Harry_potter article would fall into high importance.

So what do you think? -Sykko-(talk to me) 02:33, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sykko, I like it. Let's do it your way with a few tweaks. LA @ 20:57, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Top	Large franchise articles (what is large is TBD)
High	Small franchises (what is small is TBD) and media specific articles and lists (<franchise> films, <franchise> video games, etc.)
Mid	Canon material in each franchise
Low	Non-canon material and other articles and lists

Makes sense to me! I'll go ahead and get started on assesing some articles. -Sykko-(talk to me) 21:06, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! LA @ 21:23, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Quick thoughts I think I am understanding the concept a bit better here... So major franchises' articles (such as Batman_franchise_media) would be top priority, then next would come from the group of where the franchise branches off into different type of mediums and series groups would be high such as Batman_(film_series) then the individual published works within that series would be mid such as Batman_Returns (which is my fav of the movies of course). and then finally things like plot situations, characters, etc would be low ie:Penguin (comics)... but I would say only major contributions to the franchise as a while would really be considered. If it is not a part of the initial brand that the franchise represents at the top of the chain then it shouldn't be included.

the following table would make sense. Small franchises would essentially just get a step down on the ladder.

Top	Large franchise articles (what is large is TBD)
High	Small franchise articles (what is small is TBD) and direct series groups of large franchises (ie <franchise> films, <franchise> video games, etc.)
Mid	Direct series groups of Small franchises, or individual and canon material in large franchises
Low	individual and canon material in Small franchises

I think this actually makes more sense then my initial proposed plan. Any thoughts? -Sykko-(talk to me) 01:17, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This all makes sense. Importance can be pretty subjective and this seems like a reasonable rule of thumb. (Emperor (talk) 00:01, 15 August 2008 (UTC))[reply]

I am noticing that. I am finding that even based on my suggestions that I still need to make a certain amount of a judgment call. All the same I like the idea of having guidelines cause it makes it so that I feel more comfortable knowing that if someone were to question why I assessed an article one way or another I could refer back to the standard. -Sykko-(talk to me) 00:14, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]