Category talk:Top-priority mathematics articles

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This category is out of control, with 183 articles marked as "top" importance. I think there are a lot of things that are marked as "top" importance here that simply are not top-importance for a general audience. I am going to carefully bump some topics down into "high". Cazort 20:58, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just moved a number of pages, I think we need to create some sort of criteria though for what constitutes a "top" importance article for mathematics. I think that at a very minimum, a top-importance article should be one for which the average college-educated person can understand the first few paragraphs of the page. Cazort 21:21, 3 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Many thanks for your interest and contributions to maths ratings. However, I think you may have misunderstood: the ratings do not concern how important the article is for a general audience. They concern how high a priority it is, in the view of the Maths WikiProject, to have a high quality article on the topic in question. In particular, importance is assessed within context, and specialized articles can be top importance as well. In my view the category which is most out of control at the moment is "High". Geometry guy 09:37, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
For general interest, more detailed criteria are now available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics/Wikipedia 1.0/Importance. Geometry guy 19:48, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]