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Google New Article Test

Adjudicating new pages can be tough. Often times, ambitious new editors will come to Wikipedia not realizing that the subject the intend to write about in many cases needs to be notable in the outside world before it is suitable for inclusion into Wikipedia as described in the guidelines for notability.

I have developed an almost fool-proof method for helping to ascertain this. For newly created articles search for the topic using Google. If the newly created (this only foresee-ably works with new articles) Wikipedia article appears anywhere on the first page of Google's search results, than the topic is not yet notable enough to be included in Wikipedia, as a general rule.

This method works because of the way Google works: search ranking in Google is determined in part based upon the number of internet pages that link to them. Therefore, for a newly created Wikipedia article to appear with such a highly rank after only existing for a short time, means that there are very few if any links on the internet for this topic and therefore its third-party coverage and thus notability is dubious.