User:Silly rabbit/Math ratings FAQ
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[edit] What are these ratings all about?
[edit] The purpose of the ratings
[edit] Who may rate an article
[edit] Guidelines for importance rating
The importance rating takes place on the scale Top, High, Mid, Low, and unrated. To gain some intuition on what sort of articles should be included in each of these categories, it may be helpful to follow the browse the full lists:
| Priority | Importance within field | Impact | Need for encyclopedia | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top | Article/subject is extremely important, even crucial, to its field | Widespread and very significant | An absolute "must-have" for any reasonable mathematical encyclopedia | Trigonometric function, Manifold, Special relativity |
| High | Article/subject contributes a substantial depth of knowledge | Significant impact in other fields | Very much needed, even vital | 3-manifold, Isomorphism, Poisson distribution |
| Mid | Article/subject adds important further details within its field | Some impact beyond field | Adds further depth, but not vital to encyclopedia | Homotopy groups of spheres, Second order logic, Hypergeometric series |
| Low | Article/subject contributes more specific or less significant details | Mainly of specialist interest | Not at all essential, or can be covered adequately by other articles | Area of a disk, Abel transform, Companion matrix |
| (None) | Article/subject may be peripheral | May be too highly specialized | May not be relevant or may be too trivial in content to be needed | Comment: such articles are not relevant enough to the mathematics project to need a maths rating. |
[edit] Top rated articles
[edit] Non-biographical entries
The top articles for non-biographical entries are intended to be the main articles in an entire branch of mathematics. For example calculus and complex analysis
