This is an essay on notability. It contains the advice and/or opinions of one or more WikiProjects on how notability may be interpreted within their area of interest. This information is not a formal Wikipedia policy or guideline, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. |
This page in a nutshell: Software articles should avoid promotional wording and establish significance. Consider the circumstances surrounding an article in relation to the type of sources used. Before nominating an unsourced article for deletion, make sure to verify that it is non-notable, not just missing citations |
The purpose of this essay is to provide commentary on the notability of software by measuring its technical or commercial achievements. For the purpose of this essay, "software" includes all computer programs running on any digital device such as personal computers, appliances, video game consoles, and others. This essay does not restrict article content. Rather, the purpose of this notability essay is to provide guidance for deciding when a topic warrants a page of its own.
This essay assumes the reader knows the meaning of "computer program", "app", and "software", as well as their syntactic, semantic and pragmatic implications.