 | This is an essay on notability. It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. Some essays represent widespread norms; others only represent minority viewpoints. |
 | This page in a nutshell: A participant in a beauty pageant is presumed to be notable if the person has been declared the winner of a major international- or national-level beauty pageant competition and so is likely to have received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject. |
This essay is used to help evaluate whether or not a participant in a beauty pageant is likely to meet the standards for notability, and thus merit an article in Wikipedia. The article must provide reliable sources showing that the subject meets the general notability guideline or the pageant-specific criteria set forth below.
If the article does meet the criteria set forth below, then it is likely that sufficient sources exist to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article. Failing to meet the criteria in this essay means that notability will need to be established in other ways (e.g., the general notability guideline, or other, topic-specific, notability guidelines).
The meeting of any of these criteria does not mean that an article must be retained as a standalone article.