User:Mnbvcxz/Why:CutYourLosses

Why:Cut your losses

Subtitled: Why in Hell Did you Suggest That I Should Just Give up on Your Pee Review of My Article?

Or, What The Heck is an Improvability Score

(still work in progess)

If are here, you probably followed a link from my Pee review of your article in which I suggested that your current article is somewhere between difficult to improve and beyond f#@king redemption. The following is my explanation of why you might want to try working on a different article.

WHY?

Simply but, although every article can be improved, some articles are both much easier to improve, and can be raised to a much higher level of quality than other articles. Almost every experienced author has some article or work that they have decided, on seeing the finished or half-finished product, that it really wasn't a good idea, and went on to other products. This is true of professional fiction writers as well as uncylopedia writers.

Improvabilty Scores

In lieu of giving averages for the misc. category on Pee review, I have begun giving a score called Improvabilty, which is a measure the ease of improving the article to good quality. It is not just potential; it also takes into account the current quality of the article, meaning that a good article should have a good, or at least average-ish improvability score. If I measured potential without taking into account work already done, this this score would actually decrease as the article improves, as one can't improve on perfection.

Granted, you might have some ideas floating around in your head that you haven't put in the article yet, or I might be missing something.

My Scale

• 10: Article is perfect or it will almost write itself.
• 9: Very High Improvability.
• 8: High Improvability. Generally given for decent articles with high potential or really good articles with some remaining potential.
• 7: Good Improvability. Given to articles with above "average" potential. Still keep working on it.
• 6: Ok Improvability. This one might be a little hard, but not impossible to improve; keep trying.
• 5: Weak Improvability. Hard to improve, unless you have some ideas floating arround that you haven't inserted yet.
• 4. Low Improvability. You may want to consider working on another article.
• 3. Very Low Improvability. My opinion is to work on another article.
• 2. Extremely Low Improvability. Generally only given to NRV/VFD-candidate level articles.
• 1. Ultra Low Improvability. Only given to below average NRV/VFD-candidate level articles.
• 0. No Improvability. What article?

What if I decide to abandon the article

Generally, you get a really low score (like under 20), you should just leave the article as it, maybe do some final touch ups. It is probably sorta humorous, or at least above "average". You may or may not get some ideas later after working on other articles. Additionally, someone else might improve. However, you should not rely on a re-write fairy coming along later and fixing your articles.

Low (below 20 or so) Score

Now, if your article does get a low score, there are several possible courses of action:

1. Leave it and forget about it. However, leaving a bad article on mainspace runs the risk of it being deleted on VFD. If you think you might work on it again, and want to keep it you should...
2. Move it to userspace to save it. It won't be deleted, unless it contains cyber-bulling and it will generally be left alone. If, however, you think the article is crap...
3. Revert it to an earlier, funnier version before you started messing it, if applicable. If its an original article, you think, upon further reflection, shouldn't be/remain, you should...
4. Put it on VFD is its score is in the 10-20 range, or if its really bad....
5. Put it on on QVFD its its score is under 10 or so.