Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Importance assessment

This page has been created for the purpose of discussing how to determine the importance criteria in the project banner.

Some basic proposals:

(1) Basically every Pope of the Catholic Church would qualify as at least Mid, maybe higher. I know, that's a bit high, but they are probably the largest group within Christianity, and the Pope is the leading figure of that body.
(2) Cardinals, Archbishops, and down the line of the Catholic Church as Low, unless they did something particularly significant.
(3) The Bible and all of its books (including disputed ones) Top. Kind of a no-brainer, there. Ditto the apostles.
(4) There are a lot of church bodies out there within Christianity. Honestly, I don't think all of them would qualify at the same level. The articles Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Protestantism should all qualify as Top. The major denominations within these larger topics as High. Smaller or historically less significant bodies as Mid. Ranks of members of these bodies, as members of these bodies, relative to the ranking of the body itself. On that basis, hashing out the importance of the various "denominations" (for lack of a better word) would probably be one of, if not our main, priority right now.

Any responses? John Carter 16:31, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe this will help a little: List of Christian denominations by number of members. Here is a more complete list List of Christian denominations. One thing to note, some denominations may be small but have a big influence. For example, Quakers are pretty small but a number of U.S. Presidents have been Quakers and therefore their views have had a significant impact on U.S. History.

I think we should start by defining the importance levels. The assessment page has two sets of definitions and they don't agree.Akubhai 16:45, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're right. I suggest dropping the second entirely, as it contains a nonsensical reference to "atheism" in it. Or, alternately, let's just "borrow" one from elsewhere, like maybe the Biography project at Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Assessment#Priority scale. I like that one because of its phrasing. John Carter 17:07, 13 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]