Wikipedia:WikiProject Christian music/Assessments

Welcome to the assessment department of the Christian music WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Christian music 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 Christianmusic banner; this causes the articles to be placed in the appropriate sub-categories of Category:Christian music articles by quality and Category:Christian music articles by importance, which serves as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Frequently asked questions

 * How can I get my article rated? : Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
 * Who can assess articles? : Any member of the Christian music 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 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.

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

Importance assessment
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the Christianmusic project banner on its talk page:



The following values may be used for importance assessments:
 * Top - The article is about one of the core topics of Christian music. Adds articles to Category:Top-importance Christian music articles
 * High - The article is about the most well-known or culturally or historically significant aspects of Christian music. Adds articles to Category:High-importance Christian music articles
 * Mid - The article is about a topic within the Christian music field that may or may not be commonly known outside the Christian music community. Adds articles to Category:Mid-importance Christian music articles
 * Low - The article is about a topic that is highly specialized within the Christian music field and is not generally common knowledge outside the religion community. Adds articles to Category:Low-importance Christian music articles
 * Unknown - Any articles not specifically rated for importance automatically fall in the Category:Unknown-importance Christian music articles.

Importance scale

 * Generally:


 * Specifically:

Given the number and variety of articles with which this project shall be dealing, I believe that we should devote a good deal of attention in the short run to determining which of the articles we consider to be of greatest importance to the project. We now have a page at WikiProject Christian music/Assessment/Top-importance articles where we can discuss which articles should receive top-importance ranking. Any and all input is more than welcome.

Requesting an assessment
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 (but above the following Assessment log section).


 * Lecrae - currently listed as mid-importance. Is not a Grammy winner, but he is indisputably the foremost artist in his genre (no, TobyMac doesn't count). Beyond that, he is one of the foremost artists in the Christian music scene, often named along with Smitty, TobyMac, and Chris Tomlin, and his latest album went No. 1 on Billboard.-- &iquest;3fam  ily6  contribs 14:21, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Gravity (Lecrae album) - the article was just assessed, but I feel the low importance listing is wrong. The album is a Grammy nominated award-winning album by the most prominent Christian hip hop artist and one of the most prominent artists right now in Christian music period. This album is known outside strictly Christian circles, receiving coverage from publications like Billboard, Complex and XXL, and reviews from AllHipHop and RapReviews.com. Within Christian circles it was highly anticipated and Rapzilla called it "the most important album in the history of Christian Hip-Hop."-- &iquest;3fam  ily6  contribs 15:00, 14 January 2013 (UTC) ✅ Rated as a mid-importance Flofor15 (talk) 17:44, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Steve Bell (musician) (no major recent changes, but newly project-tagged) -- ✅ Rated as Start Class -- Absolon S. Kent (talk) 14:09, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * John Elefante -- ✅ Rated as Start Class -- Absolon S. Kent (talk) 13:26, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * DecembeRadio —Zeagler (talk) 17:47, 15 May 2008 (UTC) -- ✅ Rated as B Class -- Absolon S. Kent (talk) 15:28, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Deitiphobia (major overhaul, currently stub) – Ryu Ike (talk) 02:34, 19 May 2008 (UTC) -- ✅ Rated as B Class -- Absolon S. Kent (talk) 15:27, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Jacob Moon - deleted a few days ago due to shaky notability, re-created by me yesterday. Should meet Project Music notability now, would appreciate Project Christian music opinion.  A propos, I didn't create the previous version. Petersent (talk) 23:23, 21 September 2008 (UTC) -- ✅ Change rating from B to Start Class -- Absolon S. Kent (talk) 15:55, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Carolyn Arends - currently rated as Stub, does it qualify as Start? Petersent (talk) 23:23, 21 September 2008 (UTC) -- ✅ Rated as Start Class -- Absolon S. Kent (talk) 15:52, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Jon Bauer - currently unrated. Petersent (talk) 23:32, 21 September 2008 (UTC) -- ✅ Rated as Start Class -- Absolon S. Kent (talk) 15:39, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Amanda Falk - currently unrated. Petersent (talk) 01:10, 24 September 2008 (UTC) -- ✅ Rated as Start Class -- Absolon S. Kent (talk) 15:39, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Phil Wickham - I completely re-wrote this article some time ago. Today an editor removed the stub class, but I feel that the article is much improved and needs re-assesment.  Thanks! Wikiwikikid (talk) 15:01, 4 May 2009 (UTC) - ✅ - This is currently rated a C Class article. Tuxhedoh (talk) 04:37, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Made to Love should be at least "Start", because it is full of important information. Importance debatably higher. Also, please post suggestions on the Talk Page!
 *  Toa   Nidhiki  05  00:05, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Christmas music would seem to have risen above Start Class. Maybe it's closer to a B now? Artaxerxes (talk) 15:09, 25 March 2012 (UTC) -- ✅ B-class now.-- &iquest;3fam  ily6  contribs 17:15, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Home for Christmas (BarlowGirl album) has recently been edited, but hasn't been checked against B-class criteria on either WikiProject Albums or this CCM WikiProject. Does the article meet B-class criteria? Could you please let me know? I also believe that, at least for the CCM WikiProject, the importance rating should be higher than "Low" because this project is from a big CCM artist (BarlowGirl) and has made significant strides on both album and singles charts. --True Tech Talk Time (talk) 03:23, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

Assessment log

 * The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.