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This guideline discusses some general criteria to help editors gauge whether an article is worthy of inclusion. Failure to meet these policies and guidelines should be taken as a strong cautionary flag that the article needs to be either improved, or submitted for deletion according to editorial consensus.
Generally speaking, articles that fail to reference sufficient written sources published over a course of time may be scrutinized as being inappropriate for inclusion in Wikipedia.