User:Cmadler/Notability and importance (reenactment)

This is an essay regarding notability, verifiability, importance, and related issues specifically in relation to WP:WikiProject Reenactment articles. This is not intended to alter or supercede broader policies or guidelines such as WP:N, WP:RS, WP:V, etc. but merely to provide guidance to editors of reenactment articles as to how those rules might be applied. The goals will be:

  1. Eliminate and discourage the recreation of articles that are unlikely to meet Wikipedia's standards.
  2. Improve fact-checking, citation, and referencing throughout reenactment articles.

General points: Reliable secondary sources are required for establishing the notability of a topic, but once that is done, self-published and primary sources can be used to support individual statements.