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.
Instructions
Quality assessments
An article's quality assessment is generated from the class parameter in the {{WikiProject Christian music}} project banner on its talk page: {{WikiProject Christian music|class=???}}
The following values may be used for the class parameter to describe the quality of the article (see Wikipedia:Content assessment for assessment criteria):
FA (for featured articles only; adds articles to Category:FA-Class Christian music articles) | ![]() |
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A (adds articles to Category:A-Class Christian music articles) | ![]() |
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GA (for good articles only; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Christian music articles) | ![]() |
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B (adds articles to Category:B-Class Christian music articles) | B | |
C (adds articles to Category:C-Class Christian music articles) | C | |
Start (adds articles to Category:Start-Class Christian music articles) | Start | |
Stub (adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Christian music articles) | Stub | |
FL (for featured lists only; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Christian music articles) | ![]() |
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List (adds articles to Category:List-Class Christian music articles) | List |
For non-standard grades and non-mainspace content, the following values may be used for the class parameter:
After assessing an article's quality, any comments on the assessment can be added to the article's talk page.
Quality scale
Importance assessment
An article's importance assessment is generated from the importance parameter in the {{Christianmusic}} project banner on its talk page:
- {{Christianmusic| ... | importance=??? | ...}}
Top |
High |
Mid |
Low |
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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
Label | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editor's experience | Example |
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Top | The article is one of the core topics about Christian music. | A reader who is not involved in the field of Christian music 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 music |
High | The article covers a topic that is vital to understanding Christian music. This article is fairly important to this project; The subject of an article in this category is likely well known and influential in Christian music, and known in the general market as well, within their musical genre. | |||
Mid | The article covers a topic that has a strong but not vital role in the history of Christian music. Subject contributes to the total scope of the project, and may not necessarily be famous. Subject fills in some more specific knowledge of certain areas. | 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 music. Due to the topics covered at this level, Mid-importance articles will generally have more technical terms used in the article text. | |
Low | The article is not required knowledge for a broad understanding of Christian music. Subject contributes to the total scope of the project. Subject is not likely famous, even inside Christian music circles. The subject is likely included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of another topic, such as an album by artist who themselves may be of a greater significance. | Few readers outside the Christian music field or its fans 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 music, using technical terms (and defining them) as needed. Topics included at this level include most practices and infrastructure of Christian music. |
- Specifically
Status | Artists | Albums |
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High | • Multi-Dove (excluding album, song, specialty (packaging, others) categories) • any Grammy winner • Biographical inclusion in general market reference sources • Foremost Christian artist in a musical genre |
• Grammy winner • RIAA certification Gold or higher |
Mid | • Single Dove (same exclusions as above) • Multi-Dove (all categories) • Grammy nominee |
• Dove winner (excluding specialty (packaging, others) categories) • Grammy nominee |
Low | Others |
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 Wikipedia: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.--¿3family6 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 Grammynominatedaward-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."--¿3family6 contribs 15:00, 14 January 2013 (UTC)Done Rated as a mid-importance Flofor15 (talk) 17:44, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
Steve Bell (musician) (no major recent changes, but newly project-tagged)--Done Rated as Start Class -- Absolon S. Kent (talk) 14:09, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
John Elefante--Done Rated as Start Class -- Absolon S. Kent (talk) 13:26, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
DecembeRadio—Zeagler (talk) 17:47, 15 May 2008 (UTC) --Done 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) --Done 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) --Done 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) --Done 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) --Done 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) --Done 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) -Done - 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!
- Almost There (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) Toa Nidhiki05 00:05, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
Christmas musicwould seem to have risen above Start Class. Maybe it's closer to a B now? Artaxerxes (talk) 15:09, 25 March 2012 (UTC) --Done B-class now.--¿3family6 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
Christian music articles: Index · Statistics · Log |
- The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.
August 20, 2024
Renamed
- Whatever It Takes (album) renamed to Whatever It Takes.
Assessed
- Category:Psalms people (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Whatever It Takes (Mary Alessi album) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
August 18, 2024
Removed
- Draft:Fish and Crowns (talk) removed.
August 17, 2024
Reassessed
- Another Christmas (Old Borego) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Bullet Soul (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Dirty Second Hands (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
- E'en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Gold City (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- Gone (Switchfoot song) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t)
- Head over Heels (In This Life) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Jonathan Manalo (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- More Than Fine (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Oh! Gravity. (song) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
- This Is Your Life (song) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t)
- We Are One Tonight (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
- When We Come Alive (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to NA-Class. (rev · t)
August 16, 2024
Reassessed
- KDNR (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t)
- The Willie Nelson Family (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
August 15, 2024
Assessed
- Return to the Promised Land (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
August 14, 2024
Reassessed
- Die Auferweckung des Lazarus (J.C.F. Bach) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Die Auferweckung des Lazarus (Loewe) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
August 13, 2024
Renamed
- Eye of the Storm (song) renamed to Eye of the Storm.
- WP:Featured topics/Almost There (album) renamed to WP:Good topics/Almost There (album).
- WP:Featured topics/Jesus Is King renamed to WP:Good topics/Jesus Is King.
- O Esca Viatorum renamed to O esca viatorum.
- Tina Campbell (musician) renamed to Tina Campbell.
Reassessed
- Convictions (band) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Crabb Revival (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Darkness Divided (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- Death Gospel (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Deus Meus (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Dick and Melodie Tunney (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Dresden amen (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Dynamic Praise (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Falling Cycle (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
- Final Surrender (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- From the Shallows (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- Kelly Nelon Clark (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Pocket Change (band) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- Preachers (musical group) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to B-Class. (rev · t)
- Recon (band) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
- Requiem for My Friend (Preisner) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
- Rivers & Robots (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- Sancti venite (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- Scream the Prayer Tour (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- See the Rise (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Seminary Singers (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
- Shekinah Glory Ministry (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- Shenandoah Harmony (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- Singing Christians (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Singing Stewarts (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Sixteen Cities (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- Soul Train Music Award for Best Gospel/Inspirational Song (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Sovereign Strength (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
- Spirit West Coast (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Stabat Mater (Palestrina) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Symbol (choir) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- The Advice (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- The Campbell Brothers (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
- The Dameans (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- The Dixie Nightingales (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- The Nelons (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- The Remission Flow (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- The Soul Seekers (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- The Valentinos (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to C-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- The Walls Group (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
- The Way (Jesus music band) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- There is Power in the Blood (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
- Valor (band) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Willet (band) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- With Shaking Hands (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
- Worldview (band) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
- Yes, Lord! (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Stub-Class. (rev · t)
Assessed
- Chandler (band) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Cityalight (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Die Auferweckung des Lazarus (J.C.F. Bach) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Eye of the Storm (Ryan Stevenson song) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Fellowship Creative (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Flight 180 (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- WP:Good topics/Almost There (album) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Project-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- WP:Good topics/Jesus Is King (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Project-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- O esca viatorum (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Owe You Praise (Live 2024) (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- Draft:Sean BE (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
- ShoutFest (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
- Tina Campbell (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
Removed
- Deborah Woodson (talk) removed.
- The Evan Anthem (talk) removed.