Thread:Talk:Article feedback/IMDB rating: Only consider trustworthy users/reply (46)

More like a straw man alert.

Improving articles is, indeed, not the primary and stated purpose of the tool. Using a index card to squash the mosquito that landed on my desk and wipe it into the trash is not the primary and state purpose of index cards but...like most tools, it have its multi-tasking moments.

However, like any tool, it does require some common sense to use (Like for instance, while index cards are great bug killers, they probably wouldn't be very helpful for stuffing your bra). So I may see an article like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_tasting get relatively low scores, especially when it comes to completeness and objectivity. Now,using common sense, I can probably assume that these are not "fan/hater" ratings for a topic like Wine tasting (though I may wonder about that for an article like White Zinfandel perhaps).

I'll look at the laundry list of "further readings" and the uneven distribution of refs and figure that may have a role in the reader not having much confidence in the objectivity of the text and I could see that the several tiny sections on glassware, wine color, etc probably could use more info to help with completeness.

Eventually an editor like myself will come across this article and see these things that need to be improve. Indeed, it has been tagged with needing ref improvement since June 2010. However, I've got a lot of articles on my list that need to be worked on and this may not be a priority.

BUT...if my wikiproject was doing a dedicated article improvement drive and we had a tool like the AFT dashboard that we could see a cumulative rating of wine articles for the month, we could see that perhaps that Wine Tasting was one of our lowest rated articles for the last month and then use this information to readjust our priority list.