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Importance scale

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The purpose of the importance rating is to direct the project's article improvement efforts towards the most important articles, and incidentally to provide a convenient shortlist of important topics for readers who are interested in sanitation generally.

The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability that the average reader of Wikipedia will look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics that are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to a student, expert or patient.

WikiProject Sanitation's specific guidelines for importance ratings are provided below. In making an assessment, it is often helpful to compare the article with others that already have the proposed rating. Links to each category are provided in the first column of this table:

Article importance grading scheme
Label Criteria Examples
Top priority Subject is extremely important, even crucial, to sanitation. Strong interest from non-professionals around the world. Usually a large subject with many associated sub-articles. Less than 1% of sanitation-related articles achieve this rating. Sanitation or Open defecation
High priority Subject is clearly notable. Subject is interesting to, or directly affects, many average readers. This category includes the most common terms and concepts. Fewer than 10% of sanitation-related articles achieve this rating. Groundwater or Helminths
Mid priority Normal priority for article improvement. A good article would be interesting or useful to many readers. Subject is notable within its particular specialty. This category includes most sanitation technologies, scientific concepts, medical conditions related to sanitation. Fecal-oral route or Constructed wetland
Low priority Article may only be included to cover a specific part of a more important article, or may be only loosely connected to sanitation. Subject may be specific to one country or part of one country, such as licensing requirements or organizations. This category includes most of the following: scientific concepts, medical conditions, lesser used technologies. Fasciolosis or Defecation postures
NA NA means Not an Article. This label is used for all pages that are not articles, such as templates, categories, and disambiguation pages. (To mark an article as "needs assessment" or "not assessed," simply leave the importance parameter empty, like this: |importance= ) WikiProject Sanitation

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Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Sanitation articles by quality statistics

  1. ^ For example, this image of the Battle of Normandy is grainy, but very few pictures of that event exist. However, where quite a number of pictures exist, for instance, the moon landing, FPC attempts to select the best of the ones produced.
  2. ^ An image has more encyclopedic value (often abbreviated to "EV" or "enc" in discussions) if it contributes strongly to a single article, rather than contributing weakly to many. Adding an image to numerous articles to gain EV is counterproductive and may antagonize both FPC reviewers and article editors.
  3. ^ While effects such as black and white, sepia, oversaturation, and abnormal angles may be visually pleasing, they often detract from the accurate depiction of the subject.