This is an explanatory essay about Wikipedia:Notability. This page provides additional information about concepts in the page(s) it supplements. This page is not one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. |
This page in a nutshell: Editors have differing interpretations about how much detail is required for a source to qualify as "significant coverage". |
"Significant coverage" is an important concept in Wikipedia's general notability guideline (GNG) and other notability guidelines. To contribute to a topic's notability, sources are required to provide significant coverage. This page covers how this concept is generally interpreted in practice.