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| This article may not meet the general notability guideline or one of the following specific guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand or rewrite the article to establish its notability. The best way to address this concern is to reference published, third-party sources about the subject. If notability cannot be established, the article is more likely to be considered for redirection, merge or deletion, per Wikipedia:Guide to deletion. |
This template will categorise tagged articles into Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability. This template is a self-reference. It should never be used with Wikipedia:Subst.
Providing no arguments to the template will result in a generic but rather verbose message with a comprehensive list of notability guidelines. An optional argument renders the message more specific. Specific options include:
- Academics
- Biographies
- Books
- Companies
- Episode (for TV episodes)
- Fiction
- Institutions
- Music
- Neologisms
- Numbers
- Organizations or Organisations
- Products
- Web
Else, you can use:
- Notability. In this case, only the main notability guideline article is referenced.
- Proposed. In this case a second argument is required to provide a link to the proposed guideline.
- For example,
{{notability|Proposed|[[Wikipedia:Notability (software)]]}}.
- Other. For forward compatibility with new guidelines that have not yet been given a syntactic shortcut in this template. A second argument is required as a link to the guideline.
- For example, were "Music" not already supported, one could use:
{{notability|Other|[[Wikipedia:Notability (music)|Music]]}}.
Use this template When an article subject is most likely non-notable. Use {{Importance}} instead when the subject probably is notable enough, but the article fails to establish notability (as is often the case with short stub articles, and sometimes those with a lot of minutiae but an underdeveloped "big picture"). And when an article is certainly, hopelessly non-notable take it to Articles for deletion or nominate it for proposed deletion.
Redirects
- {{NN}}
- {{Nonnotable}}
- {{Userfy}}
- {{Nn}}
- {{Cleanup-notability}}
- {{Notable}}
See also
Wikipedia content modification information:
- This page was last modified on 1 September 2008, at 15:43.
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