Thread:Talk:Article feedback/IMDB rating: Only consider trustworthy users/reply (29)

LOL! Well I assumed we were including your comment but okay, I'll play that game ;)

Even if we don't know that the "hot" coffeemaker was getting 5/5 stars because it is always makes hot coffee, the coffeemaker is still fulfilling the user's expectations even though the exact reason is not detailed. Ergo a good thing.

But when you get several hundred results over many different coffeemakers eventually patterns emerge where you will see that the "hot" coffeemakers trending with higher trustworthy ratings than coffeemakers who don't consistently make their coffees as hot. This is the parallel I drew above with looking at the pattern of how Wikipedia articles are rated.

As a member of the Wine Project on en.wiki, I'm pretty familiar with all the high traffic wine articles and how they are formatted and reference. While the majority are referenced to offline book written by credible wine experts we have a few that utilize various websites and wine magazines. If I see the former receive consistently 5/5 trustworthy ratings while the later are getting 2-3/5 then I can start seeing a pattern that tells me either A.) The sources that we are using are not reliable or B.) The sources that we are using are not perceived to be reliable and maybe I need to take a closer look.

But again, you can't start seeing patterns until you start asking questions and getting results.