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editI just wrote my first user essay. If anyone has time, feedback on the essay's talk page would be appreciated! Thanks, voorts (talk/contributions) 01:53, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
- I've drafted another on the presumption of notability. voorts (talk/contributions) 20:57, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
Should user essays first be vetted before making them Wikipedia essays?
editCan I just move my User:Nederlandse Leeuw/Emptying categories out of process to Wikipedia:Emptying categories out of process? Or should some editors first vet it and perhaps change or remove some stuff before it is ready as a Wikipedia essay? The only difference I see at Wikipedia:Essays#Types of essays is that Wikipedia essays and user essays are categorised differently, and that as long as I keep it as a user essay, I can revert any changes made by other editors. I would like to allow others to make improvements to it, and have it become a bit more mainstream (though not yet a formal guideline).
The essay currently does contain some anonymised comments from various editors and admins that are used as examples to illustrate various scenarios. They are not intended as WP:PAs, but their usernames are traceable. I would like to be sure that I don't bring anyone (including myself) into trouble if I make it a Wikipedia essay by including those anonymised case studies. NLeeuw (talk) 10:09, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Avoiding harm § Clarification about PSEUDO. Aaron Liu (talk) 22:37, 7 August 2024 (UTC)
Essay ratings
editI have updated Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia essays/Assessment#WikiProject Essays Assessment Statistics so that it will not be dependent on external tools. It still needs @AntiCompositeNumber's bot to calculate the rating, but once they're in a category, the stats will update automagically.
I think that the cutoffs for the formula need to be reconsidered. Here are the current numbers:
| Wikipedia essays by impact | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total |
| 15 | 45 | 90 | 2,362 | 96 | 23 | 2,631 |
| 0.57% | 1.7% | 3.4% | 89.8% | 3.6% | 0.9% | 100% |
I don't think that we should be declaring 90% of essays to be "low-impact". The current cutoffs also declare pages like Wikipedia:BOLD, revert, discuss cycle and Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions to only have "High" impact. Perhaps no more than three-quarters (two-thirds?) of essays should be rated as "Low", and the rest scaled proportionately. I could imagine the top 1% being Top, the next 5% being High, etc. What do you think? WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:23, 3 September 2024 (UTC)