Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy/Importance ratings
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These are the Wikipedia:WikiProject Astronomy guidelines for ranking article importance. The rankings can be added to an astronomy-related article using the {{WPAstronomy}} template. See Category:Astronomy articles by importance and Category:Astronomy articles by quality for the current article rankings.
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[edit] Importance Guidelines
Top: Fundamental and famous astronomy
High: Important or famous. Something an undergraduate astronomy major could have heard of or studied.
Mid: Cover articles that pretty much only people in the know heard about, while not being over-specialized.
Low: Everything else that has some significance to astronomy as a science.
Bottom: Not of importance to astronomy overall, such as weekly local stargazing columns, works of fiction or artistic interpretations. It also includes junk astronomy that matters to rational skepticism, but which is otherwise crank.
NA: Pages that are not in the article space, such a categories or projects.
[edit] People
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- Top: People who made fundamental or very famous contributions to astronomy in general.
- Examples: Albert Einstein, Galileo Galilei
- High: People who made major or famous contributions within their field (usually, but not always, people with objects or effects named after them).
- Examples: Edwin Hubble, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Mid: Generally people who made important contributions to their fields who are recognized within their peers. All astronomers who won major prizes or awards besides the Nobel Prize. All astronomers who developed or invented widely used techniques within astronomy.
- Examples: Bernard Lyot, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers
- Low: People who have made useful or interesting contributions, such as the discovery of a comet or a nova.
[edit] Topics
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- Top: The Astronomy article, along with major divisions of theory (e.g., List of basic astronomy topics) and research:
- Examples: ...
- High: Important topics within "top importance fields":
- Examples: ...
- Planetary science: ...
- Stellar astronomy: Parallax, ...
- Mid: Subdivisions of "high importance" astronomy categories:
- Examples:
- Magnetospheres:
[edit] Objects
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- Top: Extensively studied objects that provide information of fundamental importance to astronomy. This includes the Milky Way, the Sun, and the planets in the Solar System. It also includes general summary articles on classes of objects.
- Examples: Asteroid belt, Black hole, Brown Dwarf, Circumstellar disk, Galaxy, Jupiter, Planet, Star, Supernova, Universe.
- High: Readily observed or prototypical objects that have a large body of literature. This includes the major moons, dwarf planets. It also includes sub-types of general object classes.
- Examples: Ceres, Cygnus X-1, Globular Cluster, Red Giant, Type Ia supernova, White Dwarf.
- Mid: Objects that have been the subject of scientific study beyond the basic orbital elements or classification. This includes minor moons, large asteroids, prominent stars, well-studied extrasolar planets, widely-known astronomical features, nearby galaxies and unusual objects.
- Low: Everything else, including most asteroids, stars, clusters and distant galaxies. These are objects that contribute little to the field and have few or no publications.
[edit] Discoveries
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- Top: Famous discoveries of major astronomical phenomena. Historical summaries of a culture.
- High: General history of astronomy; important discoveries that are not widely known.
- Examples: History of astronomy
- Mid: Historical era or geographic sub-topics within the history of astronomy.
- Examples: Copernican Revolution, Egyptian astronomy, Zodiac
- Low: Specialized topics important only within a culture.
- Examples: Sothic cycle
[edit] Events
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- Top: None
- High: Very important and widely observed events. Occurances that demonstrated new astronomical concepts.
- Examples: Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, Halley's Comet, SN 1987A.
- Mid: Rare events that were widely observed.
- Examples: SN 1054.
- Low: Events of little individual importance to astronomy, such as specific occultations or eclipses.
[edit] Institutions
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- Top: None
- High: Major or famous observatories or institutes:
- Examples: Mauna Kea Observatory, Palomar observatory
- Mid: Historical observatories, specialized observatories.
- Examples: Harvard College Observatory.
- Low: Private observatories, college observatories.
[edit] Publications
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- Top: None
- High: Famous landmark papers and publications.
- Examples: De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
- Mid: High impact astronomy journals. Books famous enough to be known by their author only to most of the astronomy community. Important catalogs of stellar objects.
- Examples: Astronomical Journal.
- Low: Most astronomical catalogs.
[edit] Equipment
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- Top: Very important, fundamental and pioneering instrument types.
- Examples: astronomical interferometer, photometer, spectrograph, telescope.
- High: Important instrument types and sub-classifications of very important instrument types. Individual instruments that made landmark discoveries.
- Mid: Important instrument types within specialized fields, instrument variations, and historically-important instruments. Record-breaking instruments.
- Examples: blink comparator, coronagraph, filter (optics), meridian circle, Schmidt camera, spectroheliograph.
- Low: Obsolete and low importance instrument types. Minor instrument variations.
- Examples: armillary sphere, backstaff, reticle.
[edit] Miscellaneous
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- Top: fundamental or very famous astronomy and astronomy-related topics
- Examples: ...
- High:
- Mid:
- Low:
[edit] Lists
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- Top: Lists of "fundamental" astronomy information:
- Examples: Topic outline of astronomy
- High: List of widely observed objects.
- Examples: List of stars
- Mid:Lists of "important" stuff:
- Low: Lists of objects that (for the most part) have not been the object of significant study. Identification codes.
- Examples: List of observatory codes
