One of the main tasks of the black metal task force is to assess the quality of Wikipedia's black 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 task force uses to help automate some of the assessing process.
The assessment is done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WikiProject Black Metal}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Black metal articles by quality, which serve as the foundation for an automatically generated work list. WP:1.0 also produces a statistics page, and a log of articles assessed.