 | This Wikipedia page has been superseded by Wikipedia:Notability and is retained primarily for historical reference. |
 | This page in a nutshell: Information should have some notability (significance) within its associated subject area. A subject should only be considered notable if it is verifiable in reliable third party sources. If a subject isn't notable under these guidelines, it shouldn't be in the encyclopedia. |
Certain policies and guidelines have established a broad base of what will determine notability or encyclopaedic worth, and certain topic areas have criteria which have been developed by editors and achieved acceptance as guidelines.
Since not all topic areas have accepted guidelines, in order to determine a broad level of notability for a topic for which no established or proposed guidelines apply, an editor should evaluate the topic with an eye on existing guidelines and policy.
Therefore this page gives some rough guidelines which Wikipedia editors should use to decide if any particular subject or topic should have an article on Wikipedia. This page seeks to further expand upon and delineate a level of noteworthiness based upon the principles that information in Wikipedia is verifiable, of a neutral point of view, is not formed of original research and cites reliable sources.