Welcome to the assessment department of the R&B and Soul Music WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's R&B and Soul Music related articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject R&B and Soul Music}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:R&B and Soul Music articles by quality and Category:R&B and Soul Music articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

As of 14 January 2026, there are 15,138 articles within the scope of WikiProject R&B and Soul Music, of which 175 are featured. This makes up 0.17% of the articles on Wikipedia and 1.51% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 30,276 pages in the project.

How can I get my article rated?

Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.

Who can assess articles?

Any member of the R&B and Soul Music WikiProject is free to add or change the rating of an article.

Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments?

Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, we are unable to leave detailed comments in most cases. If you have particular questions, you might ask the person who assessed the article; they will usually be happy to provide you with their reasoning.

What if I don't agree with a rating?

You can list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again.

Aren't the ratings subjective?

Yes, they are, but it's the best system we've been able to devise; if you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

An article's quality assessment is recorded using the |class= parameter in the {{WikiProject banner shell}}. Articles that have the {{WikiProject R&B and Soul Music}} banner template on their talk page will be added to the appropriate categories by quality.

The following standard grades may be used to describe the quality of mainspace articles (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):

FA	(for featured articles only; adds them to the FA-Class R&B and Soul Music articles category)		FA
FL	(for featured lists only; adds them to the FL-Class R&B and Soul Music articles category)		FL
A	(for articles that passed a formal peer review only; adds them to the A-Class R&B and Soul Music articles category)		A
GA	(for good articles only; adds them to the GA-Class R&B and Soul Music articles category)		GA
B	(for articles that satisfy all of the B-Class criteria; adds them to the B-Class R&B and Soul Music articles category)		B
C	(for substantial articles; adds them to the C-Class R&B and Soul Music articles category)		C
Start	(for developing articles; adds them to the Start-Class R&B and Soul Music articles category)		Start
Stub	(for basic articles; adds them to the Stub-Class R&B and Soul Music articles category)		Stub
List	(for stand-alone lists; adds them to the List-Class R&B and Soul Music articles category)		List
NA	(for any other pages where assessment is unwarranted; adds them to the NA-Class R&B and Soul Music pages category)		NA
???	(articles for which a valid class has not yet been provided are listed in the Unassessed R&B and Soul Music articles category)		???

After assessing an article's quality, any comments on the assessment can be added to the article's talk page.

An article's importance assessment is generated from the

importance parameter in the {{WikiProject R&B and Soul Music}} project banner on its talk page:

{{WikiProject R&B and Soul Music| ... | importance=??? | ...}}

Top

High

Mid

Low

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The following values may be used for importance assessments:

• Top - The article is about one of the core topics of R&B and Soul Music. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance R&B and Soul Music articles
• High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of R&B and Soul Music. Adds articles to Category:High-importance R&B and Soul Music articles
• Mid - The article is about a topic within the field that may or may not be commonly known outside the R&B and Soul Music community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance R&B and Soul Music articles
• Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the R&B and Soul Music field and is not generally common knowledge outside the community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance R&B and Soul Music articles
• Unknown - Any article which has not yet been assessed on the importance scale is automatically added to the Category:Unknown-importance R&B and Soul Music articles.

Label	Criteria	Reader's experience	Editor's experience	Example
Top	The article is one of the core topics about R&B and Soul Music. Generally, this is limited to those articles that are included as sections of the main R&B and Soul Music article.	A reader who is not involved in the field of R&B and Soul Music will have high familiarity with the subject matter and should be able to relate to the topic easily.	Articles in this importance range are written in mostly generic terms, leaving technical terms and descriptions for more specialized pages.	R&B and Soul Music
High	The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding R&B and Soul Music.
Mid	The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in the history of R&B and Soul Music.	Many readers will be familiar with the topic being discussed, but a larger majority of readers may have only cursory knowledge of the overall subject.	Articles at this level will cover subjects that are well known but not necessarily vital to understand R&B and Soul Music. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text. Most people involved in R&B and Soul Music will be rated in this level.
Low	The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of R&B and Soul Music.	Few readers outside the R&B and Soul Music field may be familiar with the subject matter. It is likely that the reader does not know anything at all about the subject before reading the article.	Articles at this range of importance will often delve into the minutiae of R&B and Soul Music, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed. Topics included at this level include most practices and infrastructure of R&B and Soul Music.

If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below.

• Skiing In The Snow — successful UK chart hit and one of the most notable tracks in Northern soul. One Of Seven Billion (talk) 12:38, 3 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
• The Supreme Florence Ballard — the lone album release/compilation by legendary Florence Ballard, founding member of The Supremes. JonathanLGardner (talk) 20:56, 15 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Ungodly Hour — critically aclaimed, grammy-nominated studio album by American R&B duo Chloe x Halle. 110.136.154.214 (talk) 15:18, 10 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

R&B and Soul Music articles: Index · Statistics · Log

The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.

• Sexy movimiento renamed to Sexy Movimiento.

• Charlie Whitehead (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Lavender Haze (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from GA-Class to FA-Class. (rev · t)
• Leo's Sunshipp (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

• RM47 (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
• Sexy Movimiento (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Tenita Jordan (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Tära (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Missing You (album) renamed to Missing You.
• Peter Criss (album) renamed to Peter Criss (1978 album).

• Leo's Sunshipp (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
• Missing You (Peabo Bryson album) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
• Not a Bad Thing (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as GA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Peter Criss (1978 album) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)

• Take Back the Night (song) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from B-Class to GA-Class. (rev · t)

• Gimme What I Don't Know (I Want) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Draft:PrincePisces (musician) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)

• Step Aside (Incognito song) (talk) removed.

• The Color of Love renamed to Colour of Love.

• Don't Let Them (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

• The Color of Love (song) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
• The Zombies (EP) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as GA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)

• Victor Ray renamed to Victor Ray.

• Rita Coolidge discography (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to List-Class. (rev · t)

• Draft:Jada Denise (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Steppin' Out (Gospel Hummingbirds album) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• On My Mind (Ellie Goulding song) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)
• The Miseducation Tour (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from B-Class to GA-Class. (rev · t)
• Why Lawd? (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

• NxWorries (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston recording) (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to High-Class. (rev · t)

• The Romantic (album) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as High-Class. (rev · t)