This category contains articles that have been rated as "Top-importance" by WikiProject Animation. Articles are automatically placed in this category when the corresponding rating is given through built-in transclusion from {{WikiProject Animation}}; please see the assessment department for more information.
This article is of the utmost importance to the project, as it provides key information about a major topic that is fundamental to a study of the subject. Core topics about animation. Generally, these topics are sub-articles of the main Animation article, vital for the understanding of animation or extremely notable to people outside of the animation field. This category should stay limited to approximately 100 members. Biographies should be limited to the top one or two people in a particular field or persons of the greatest historical importance.
This article is very important to the project, as it covers either a general area of knowledge or provides information about a significant topic. Topics that are reasonably notable within the field of animation without necessarily being famous or very notable outside the animation field.
This article is relatively important to the project, as it provides more specific knowledge of areas that a serious reader would need to understand. Topics that are very notable within the field of animation, and well-known outside of it, and can be reasonably expected to be included in any print encyclopedia.
This article is significant but has limited importance to the project, as it expands the reader's overall knowledge of the subject into areas of general interest. Topics of mostly local interest or those that are only included for complete coverage or as examples of a higher-level topic; peripheral or trivial topics or topics that have only a limited connection to the subject of animation.
Subject is of the lowest level of relevance or significance to its field of study. This article has no real significance to the project, but it covers additional topics of general or specific interest, some of which could be described as trivia, though all are notable in their own right. Others may be articles of high importance to another project that have an indirect connection with animation. The category was created by the WikiProject to counter-balance "top importance" and to place "mid-importance" into the actual middle. In addition it serves to separate trivia from articles of low but significant importance.
This category is maintained by WikiProject Animation and is populated by the {{WikiProject Animation}} project banner. As such, it may be empty occasionally or even most of the time, but it should not be deleted.