Hello,
There was a discussion awhile back about moving away from project-specific assessment: Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_198#Project-independent_quality_assessments . Short version was that, in theory, every WikiProject could rate articles their own way, but in practice, this never made any sense. The only quality rankings that "mattered", FA/A/GA, already got enough of an overall review to override any local Wikiproject concerns and set a single ranking, and the lower quality rankings simply don't matter very much. It's best to keep things simple and lightweight, since in practice someone updating the ratings just updates it for every project.
This Wikiproject decided to have a custom class mask for a B-ranking, which seems to have just been done independently without any discussion I can find in the archives. This means that rather than inheriting from the top-level assessment in Template:WikiProject banner shell, this project instead demands that an editor who assesses an article as B-class overall can't just leave it at that. Rather, they have to fetch a shrubbery and instead do a Wikiproject-specific assessment setting by adding b1=y, b2=y, etc. in the specific Wikiproject. Most editors don't do this, judging by the huge amount of C-class articles and fairly few B-class articles in the chart. Which makes sense - the whole point of the above discussion was to move away from WikiProject-specific assessments. Someone setting the top-level rank to B probably just expects everything to be B. See Talk:Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as an example of an article that is ranked B but displays as C due to the needless extra bureaucracy imposed here.
I propose that this class mask be removed, and the WP Oxford ranking just inherit from the Banner Shell ranking. If an editor wants to rank an article B-class, let them - we can trust that they know the criteria. (And if an editor is incorrectly marking articles B-class, then this won't even really stop them if they bother to look up what variables to set.) This change would involve modifying Template:WikiProject University of Oxford/class to not have the special rules for B-class. Any objections? SnowFire (talk) 23:45, 16 August 2023 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20230816234500","author":"SnowFire","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-SnowFire-20230816234500-Custom_B-Class_rules_for_this_Wikiproject:_Remove_them?","replies":["c-SnowFire-20230909033800-SnowFire-20230816234500"]}}-->
- This is done, seeing no response. WP Oxford will now inherit the top-level assessment. SnowFire (talk) 03:38, 9 September 2023 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20230909033800","author":"SnowFire","type":"comment","level":2,"id":"c-SnowFire-20230909033800-SnowFire-20230816234500","replies":[]}}-->
An IP editor has added a single sentence paragraph and photo of a relative of Catherine, Princess of Wales to the history section of St Anne's College. Any contributions to Talk:St Anne's College, Oxford#Gertrude Middleton will be welcome. TSventon (talk) 15:43, 18 September 2023 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20230918154300","author":"TSventon","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-TSventon-20230918154300-St_Anne's_College","replies":[]}}-->
If this project has a section for the listing of new articles, I'm not seeing it. So, I'm putting it here, St Catherine's College Bicycle Store. A Grade I listed bike shed must warrant an article. Should anyone fancy a DYK they are very welcome, and the hook should be easy. KJP1 (talk) 06:55, 3 December 2023 (UTC)__DTREPLYBUTTONSCONTENT__-->__DTELLIPSISBUTTON__{"threadItem":{"timestamp":"20231203065500","author":"KJP1","type":"comment","level":1,"id":"c-KJP1-20231203065500-New_articles?","replies":[]}}-->
