Wikipedia:WikiProject Human rights/Importance

Article importance/priority rating scheme

Priority	Importance within field	Impact	Need for encyclopedia	Examples
Top	Article/subject is crucial to a broad-based understanding of human rights	Widespread (global) and definitive impact on human rights	An absolute "must-have" for any reasonable encyclopedia	Human rights, Geneva Conventions, The Holocaust
High	Article/subject contributes a substantial depth of knowledge	Significant human rights impact. Affects many people, globally or regionally	Very much needed, even vital	1981–1982 Iran Massacres, Black Lives Matter, Mahatma Gandhi
Mid	Article/subject adds important further details to the topic of human rights	Some impact on human rights, reasonably important within a specific, bounded context	Adds further depth, but not vital to encyclopedia	Shaoguan incident, Witch hunts in India, William Wilberforce
Low	Article/subject contributes more specific or less significant details	Mainly of specialist interest - relatively few people are impacted in a human rights context	Not at all essential, or can be covered adequately in lists or other articles	Azimzhan Askarov, Slavery by Another Name, Yasui v. United States
(None)	Article/subject may be peripheral	May be only indirectly related to human rights.	May not be relevant or may be too trivial in content to be needed	Comment: such articles are not relevant enough to the Human rights project to need a rating.