I won't do it, but I'd invite you to consider reverting your deletion of the rating. The rating is assigned by members of wikiprojects (in this case, mammals), and "B" corresponds to a set of descriptors; follow the blue clickie. It wouldn't really be appropriate for the initiator of an article to assign the rating. BTW: Except very initially, we can't really speak of "authors" of Wikipedia articles. Someone starts it, then it belongs to everybody who contributes. You clearly know a lot about raccoons. DavidOaks (talk) 21:26, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I won't do it, but I'd invite you to consider reverting your deletion of the rating.

Okay, removing was probably not the right thing to do, but I have written my opinion beneath the rating boxes now.

we can't really speak of "authors" of Wikipedia articles. [...]'

I meant author in the sense of main author.

--Novil Ariandis (talk) 22:05, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I have looked at various other discussion pages and the rating system (not including good and featured articles) is completely useless and arbitrary and should therefore go away and never come back. --Novil Ariandis (talk) 23:40, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Novil Ariandis! Just a head's up regarding "fixing" capitalization on mammal articles: you are walking into a hornet's nest! See Wikipedia talk:Requested moves#Moves of mammal articles for a list of all of the debates/arguments/fights. Until a consensus is reached (likely through mediation & hopefully rather soon), would you mind reverting those moves yourself? Rgrds. --Tombstone (talk) 16:05, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]