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Welcome to the '''assessment department''' of the Christian History WikiProject!  This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Christian History related articles.  While much of the work is done in conjunction with the [[WP:1.0]] program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{tl|WikiProject Christian History}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of[[:Category:Christian History articles by quality]] and [[:Category:Christian History articles by importance]], which serves as the foundation for an [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Christian History articles by quality|automatically generated worklist]].

== Frequently asked questions ==
; How can I get my article rated? : Please list it in the [[#Requesting an assessment|section for assessment requests]] below.
; Who can assess articles? : Any member of the Christian History WikiProject is free to add or change the rating of an article.  
; Why didn't the reviewer leave any comments? : Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, we are unable to leave detailed comments in most cases.  If you have particular questions, you might ask the person who assessed the article; they will usually be happy to provide you with their reasoning.
; What if I don't agree with a rating? : You can list it in the [[#Requesting an assessment|section for assessment requests]] below, and someone will take a look at it.  Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again.
; Aren't the ratings subjective? : Yes, they are, but it's the best system we've been able to devise; if you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

==Staff==
* [[User:ReformedArsenal|ReformedArsenal]] ([[User talk:ReformedArsenal|talk]]) 22:19, 9 May 2012 (UTC)



== Instructions ==
===Statistics===
{{WP1|Christian History}}
{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Christian History articles by quality statistics}}
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=== Quality assessments ===
{{Assessment Class Summary|banner=WikiProject Christian History|topic=Christian History}}

After assessing an article's quality, any comments on the assessment can be added to the article's talk page.

=== Quality scale ===
{{Grading scheme}}

=== Importance assessment ===
An article's importance assessment is generated from the ''importance'' parameter in the {{tl|WikiProject Christian History}} project banner on its talk page:

; <nowiki>{{WikiProject Christian History| ... | importance=??? | ...}}</nowiki>

{| border="0" align="right"
|-
| width=40px {{Top-Importance}}
|-
| {{High-Importance}}
|-
| {{Mid-Importance}}
|-
| {{Low-Importance}}
|-
| {{Unknown-importance}}
|}

The following values may be used for importance assessments:
* '''Top''' - The subject of this article is a must-have for a print encyclopedia. Adds articles to [[:Category:Top-importance Christian History articles]]
* '''High''' - The subject of this article contributes a depth of knowledge regarding Chrsitianity. Adds articles to [[:Category:High-importance Christian History articles]]
* '''Mid''' - The article fills in more minor details regarding Christian History in general. Adds articles to [[:Category:Mid-importance Christian History articles]]
* '''Low''' - The article is about a topic that is mainly of specialist interest in the general field of Christian History. Adds articles to [[:Category:Low-importance Christian History articles]]
* '''Unknown''' - Any article which has not yet been assessed on the importance scale is automatically added to the [[:Category:Unknown-importance Christian History articles]].

=== Importance scale ===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Label
! Criteria
! Reader's experience
! Editor's experience
! Example
|-
! {{Top-importance}}
| The article is one of the core topics about Christian History.  Articles in this area should be limited to those which could, reasonably, be found in any encyclopedia regarding Christian History. 
| A reader who is not involved in the field of Christian History will have high familiarity with the subject matter and should be able to relate to the topic easily.
| Articles in this importance range are written in mostly generic terms, leaving technical terms and descriptions for more specialized pages.
| [[Christian History]]
|-
! {{High-importance}}
| The article covers a topic that contributes a depth of knowledge regarding Christian History.
|-
! {{Mid-importance}}
| The article covers a topic that is important to at least one field within the broad field of Christian History, and that contributes relevant details regarding the subject. 
| Many readers will be familiar with the topic being discussed, but a larger majority of readers may have only cursory knowledge of the overall subject.
| Articles at this level will cover subjects that are well known but not necessarily vital to understand Christian History.  Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text.  Most people whose involvement with Christian History in general has been of such impact that a broad understanding of Christian History is not possible without some knowledge of them will be rated in this level.
| 
|-
! {{Low-importance}}
| The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of Christian History.
| Few readers outside the Christian History field may be familiar with the subject matter.  It is likely that the reader does not know anything at all about the subject before reading the article.
| Articles at this range of importance will often delve into the minutiae of Christian History, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed.  Topics included at this level include most practices and infrastructure of Christian History. 
| [[Armageddon]]
|}

=== Requesting an assessment ===
{{Archives|collapsed=yes|image=none|search=no|box-width=100%|large=yes|*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Christian History/Assessment/Archive 1|Assessment archive]]}}

If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below.

====Requested Assessments====
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== Assessment log ==
:''The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.''

{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Christian History articles by quality log}}

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