User:Kammerer55/WP Ukraine Importance criteria

Current scale from WikiProject Ukraine/Assessment
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 of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to 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 which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of Ukraine.

''Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.''

The following are guidelines as to how to rate articles by importance:
 * Top-Class for: articles directly related to Ukraine, like History of Ukraine, Economy of Ukraine, Ukrainian language, Ukrainians, etc. Also include shall be the important biographical figures, like Taras Shevchenko, Mykola Gogol, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, President, Prime Minister, etc. In addition, articles which are about important events, history related, or culture (Chernobyl disaster, Holodomor, Kievan Rus', Zaporozhian Cossacks, Bandura).
 * High-Class for: Other major political figures like Yulia Tymoshenko, Oleksandr Moroz, Andriy Shevchenko, etc. Also included shall be major architectural landmarks like Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Pochayiv Lavra, or Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv. In addition, subdivision-related articles shall High-Class: administrative centers of oblasts/Crimea, Galicia (Central Europe), Bukovyna, Volyn, Donbas, and Carpathian Ruthenia.
 * Mid-Class for: important, but not major localities (Podil), other important architectural landmarks (Swallow's Nest (Crimea), Vorontsovsky Palace, etc.)
 * Low-Class for: small or less known localities (Kobyzhcha, Olevsk, etc), biographies, constructions, events, etc.

We are currently discussing which articles should be counted as being of Top-importance at Wikipedia:WikiProject Ukraine/Assessment/Top-importance articles.

Detailed
Usually, the more specialized topic would be of a lower level of importance compared to the more broad one, unless they are very close to each other (like the specialized topic covers the large chunk of the broad one).

Top class

 * In short: Umbrella topics, crucial events and most prominent symbols

What largely defines Ukraine (historically and internationally):


 * Umbrella topics about Ukraine (like top VA2 topics but "of Ukraine"; preferably most broad categories):
 * Ukraine, Outline of Ukraine, History of Ukraine, Economy of Ukraine, Administrative divisions of Ukraine etc.
 * Main attributes of Ukraine:
 * Flag of Ukraine, Ukrainian language, Verkhovna Rada (parliament), Constitution of Ukraine, Kyiv (the capital) etc.
 * Historical Ukrainian states:
 * Kievan Rus', Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic etc.
 * Crucial events in Ukrainian history:
 * Declaration of Independence of Ukraine, Holodomor, Orange Revolution, Ukrainian War of Independence, Russo-Ukrainian War etc.
 * Most prominent people:
 * people who are consistently considered top prominent (around top 10) in Ukraine: Taras Shevchenko, Lesya Ukrainka, Viacheslav Chornovil, etc.
 * historical leaders during crucial events: Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Vladimir the Great etc.
 * probably all contemporary presidents would qualify as well
 * Misc. items which are internationally well-known and are associated with Ukraine (international perception of Ukraine):
 * Zaporozhian Cossacks, Chernobyl disaster, Crimean Tatars etc.

High class

 * In short: All kinds of majors: major people in their fields, major historical events, major places, major organizations, major subtopics of top-class topics etc.

People
various top lists might be a good reference for inclusion: like top 100 of all prominent people of Ukraine of all times, or very top in more specialized lists
 * major figures in their respective professional fields (top Ukrainian scientists, poets, writers, musicians, singers, sportsmen etc.)
 * Ivan Puluj, Ivan Kotliarevsky, Lina Kostenko, Mykola Lysenko, Oleg Blokhin, Oleg Antonov (aircraft designer), Maria Prymachenko etc.
 * major contemporary politicians, military leaders and public figures:
 * most Ukrainian prime ministers and chairmen of Verkhovna Rada
 * leaders of major parties (if they formed government in the past)
 * other notable figures: Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ihor Kolomoyskyi, Georgiy Gongadze etc.
 * major historical figures:
 * political, military and revolutionary leaders: Olga of Kiev, Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny, Nestor Makhno, Grigory Petrovsky etc.
 * for example, most known Kievan Rus' rulers and hetmans would also qualify
 * other prominent figures: Petro Mohyla (theologian and reformer), Andrey Sheptytsky (religious leader), Nestor the Chronicler (monk and first historian), Vasyl Stus (dissident) etc.
 * internationally prominent people with strong ties to Ukraine:
 * Igor Sikorsky, Sergei Korolev, Leonid Brezhnev etc.
 * many people who belong to multiple groups or belong somewhere in-between:
 * Vladimir Vernadsky, Vitali Klitschko, Nikolai Gogol, Nikita Khrushchev, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Kazimir Malevich, Roxelana, Anne of Kiev etc.

Places

 * top architectural landmarks and structures (can also use various top 10 lists): Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv, Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex etc.
 * all oblasts and major cities (incl. all regional centers)
 * major historical administrative divisions and state-level formations: Principality of Kiev, West Ukrainian People's Republic, Reichskommissariat Ukraine etc.
 * outside Ukraine: Kuban People's Republic, Green Ukraine
 * cultural and historical regions: Podolia, Donbas etc.
 * major geographical features: Dnieper, Hoverla, Black Sea etc.

Events

 * major historical events (these should be directly related to Ukraine and having significant impact there): 1919 Soviet invasion of Ukraine, Cassette Scandal, Pereiaslav Agreement, 1991 Ukrainian independence referendum, Koliivshchyna etc.
 * all parliamentary and presidential elections

Organizations

 * major governmental entities: Ministry of Digital Transformation (Ukraine), High Council of Justice (Ukraine), National Bank of Ukraine etc.
 * major political parties (the ones which formed previous governments): Party of Regions, Servant of the People etc.
 * top educational, religious, cultural, non-governmental organizations and institutions: National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Come Back Alive, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church etc.
 * major historical organizations or groups of people: Executed Renaissance, Hromada (secret society) etc.

Subtopics

 * major aspects/subtopics of top-class topics: 8th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, Ukrainian alphabet, Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian War, History of Kyiv etc.
 * most high-level topics listed in Outline of Ukraine: Public holidays in Ukraine, Banking in Ukraine etc.

Objects ???

 * other important objects: Ostrog Bible

Mid class
In short: anything of high national or top regional significance.
 * people:
 * mid-range political and public figures:
 * most ministers, heads of supreme court, constitution court members etc.
 * prominent (or most?) parliament members
 * prominent activists
 * various sportsmen with international awards
 * places:
 * all hromadas and raions
 * most cities and large urban-type settlements
 * historical administrative divisions:
 * probably all pre-2020 raions
 * former governorates and okrugas
 * nationally significant landmarks and structures: Swallow's Nest, Pyrohiv, Pysanka Museum etc.
 * events: 30th anniversary of Ukrainian independence, Yalta Conference, Eurovision Song Contest 2017
 * all country-wide local elections
 * more specialized aspects of high-class topics
 * lists covering some broad Ukraine-specific topic

Low class
In short: anything which is too technical, too specialized, having only regional/local significance, or only minor relation to Ukraine
 * if there is any doubt of the topic's general notability, then it probably should go in here
 * people:
 * most parliament members
 * most sportsmen
 * places:
 * all villages and small settlements
 * minor historical administrative divisions
 * highly-specialized concepts or events
 * highly-specialized lists: List of mayors of Poltava
 * anything that could be considered notable or important for Ukraine (the topic should be generally internationally-significant and relation to Ukraine should be naturally a part of the article): Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics (part of it was hosted in Kyiv), Eurovision Song Contest 2016 (Ukraine won), Golda Meir (was born in Kyiv)