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WikiProject Firearms notability recommendations and advice on compliance with Wikipedia Policies and Guidelines
- Please note that the WikiProject Firearms guidelines below are not an official Wikipedia Guideline at present, nor among the deletion-actionable notability criteria enumerated at Wikipedia:Deletion policy. It therefore should not be relied upon in the article deletion process, which is subject to the WP Policies and Guidelines, not WikiProject recommendations.
This WikiProject guideline depends upon and is not intended to conflict in any way with Wikipedia:Notability criteria for article inclusion, particularly the General Notability Guideline (GNG). Rather, it guides article creators/editors on the application of Wikipedia Policies and Guidelines, including Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:Deletion policy, as they apply to the firearms articlespace and categoryspace. In particular, the intent of this guideline is to help editors avoid the creation of articles that are likely to be deleted for failure to establish notability (verifiability with non-trivial coverage multiple, independent, reliable secondary sources). It is entirely possible that a subject that does not appear to qualify as notable under the terms in this document is in fact notable under the PNC.
For each broad type of firearms topic, this WikiProject's editors offer rules of thumb on what is likely to constitute sufficient importance and encyclopedic value as to attract enough verifiable independent sources to establish notability, to help editors create articles that are less likely to be the target of deletion efforts. There is no Wikipedia Policy against including articles on subjects that do not meet this guideline's criteria, but doing so is highly likely to result in the article being nominated for deletion or even deleted immediately. Following the guidelines below will help ensure that the firearms articlespace is composed of solid, well-researched articles on demonstrably notable topics.
In the guidelines below, must (in italics) means that the requirement is derived from accepted WP Policies, while should (in italics) means that it is derived from non-controversial WP Guidelines. Note that articles that ignore one or more "should"-marked recommendations are liable to inspire other Wikipedians to nominate them for deletion or at best merge them into other articles, while those that violate a "must"-marked requirement will almost certainly be subject to speedy deletion.