Editing Star (classification) (section)

==Historical usage==

Repeated symbols used for a ranking date to [[Mariana Starke]]'s 1820 guidebook, which used [[exclamation point]]s to indicate works of art of special value:
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...I have endeavored... to furnish Travellers with correct lists of the objects best worth notice...; at the same time marking, with one or more exclamation points (according to their merit), those works which are deemed peculiarly excellent.<ref>Mariana Starke, (1820) [https://books.google.com/books?id=rLRfAAAAcAAJ ''Travels on the Continent: written for the use and particular information of travelers''], p. x; London: John Murray, later editions are entitled ''Information and Directions for Travellers on the Continent''</ref>
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''[[Murray's Handbooks for Travellers]]'' and then the ''[[Baedeker Guides]]'' (starting in 1844) borrowed this system, using stars instead of exclamation points, first for points of interest and later for hotels.<ref>David M Bruce, "Baedeker: the Perceived Inventor of the Formal Guidebook", in Richard Butler, ed., ''Giants of Tourism'', {{ISBN|1845936523}}, p. 93-110</ref>

The [[Michelin Guide|Michelin restaurant guide]] introduced a star as a restaurant rating in 1926, which was expanded to a system of one to three stars in 1931.<ref name="hist">[https://archive.today/20130505100337/http://www.viamichelin.co.uk/tpl/mag6/art200903/htm/tour-saga-michelin.htm "The Michelin Guide: 100 editions and over a century of history"] ViaMichelin, accessed 20 May 2013</ref>