Wikipedia:Insignificance

This is an explanatory essay about the WP:Deletion policy page. 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: Wikipedia has no content policy that directly relates the topic guideline WP:N with the article-deletion policy WP:Deletion policy. Both topics and material can be insignificant, meaning that such are not useful in the encyclopedia. An article whose topic and material are insignificant qualifies for deletion under WP:Deletion policy.

Insignificant material is material that is not prominent, meaning that there are no articles on Wikipedia for which the material has WP:DUE WEIGHT.

A non-notable topic is one that as per WP:N is not "worthy of notice" to have a stand-alone article. An insignificant topic is both non-notable and not otherwise suitable as a redirect.

As per WP:Deletion policy, an article with both an insignificant topic and insignificant material may be deleted.