One of the main tasks of the Metal WikiProject is to assess the quality of Wikipedia's Heavy Metal articles. The resulting article ratings are used within the project to help in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work. They also play a role in the WP:1.0 program, which the WikiProject uses to help automate some of the assessing process.
The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Metal}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Heavy Metal articles by quality, which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist. WP:1.0 also produces a statistics page, and a log of articles assessed.
