Wikipedia:Notability (radio show host)

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The following guideline is a clarification of notability and outlines criteria to determine the notability of American radio shows and hosts Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia, which means that there is no practical limit to the number of topics we can cover, or the total amount of content. However, it is also not an indiscriminate collection of information. To ensure that there exists sufficient source material to comply with the wikipedia policies of verifiability and What Wikipedia is Not, all article topics must meet a minimum threshold of notability. This guideline supplements the notability guideline by providing guidelines on current events.

The primary notability guideline for inclusion of articles on Wikipedia states that a topic is notable if it has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, reliable published works, whose sources are independent of the subject itself.

Criteria for American radio shows and hosts

1. American radio shows and hosts are usually notable if there scope of activities are currently and/or historically large enough in scale to warrant multiple, non-trivial published works of credible and reliable secondary source material to be written about them, produced independently of the host or radio station. Because of the commercial nature of American radio shows and hosts, such sources are much more likely to come from the popular press (i.e, newspapers). Scholarly sources do exist in a few cases. Such information should be nevertheless able to be verified by a third party source.
2. If an American radio show and host can be clearly shown to have significant cultural, social and economic impact on the local and regional market area, as supported by multiple credible and reliable secondary source materials, and especially (but not exclusively) if such impact approaches a national level, the radio show and host is considered notable. The article should discuss such impact in sufficient depth. See the guide to writing better articles to help you in forming an acceptable article.
3. additional talent on notable American radio shows are (in most but not all cases) not inherently notable, and do not warrant a separate article unless sufficient notability for the talent (especially if it fits the criteria of WP:BIO) is established through reliable and verifiable sources. In many cases separate articles exist for talent if they are major side kicks. Local smaller talent generally are not notable unless they fit the criteria of WP:BIO.
4. radio shows and hosts which have verifiable historical significance are notable.
5. radio shows and hosts whose activities are primarily local in scope are usually not notable unless verifiable information from credible and reliable third party sources can be found.

Assertion of notability

Notability can be asserted for radio shows and hosts through:

• Nontrivial inclusion in reliable third party published materials.
• A significant amount of non-trivial media coverage that is comprehensive, and that deals specifically with the radio show and host as the primary subject.

Assertions to be rejected

The following may be presented as evidence of notability, and should be rejected as such.

1. Documents produced by the radio shows and hosts should not be used as an assertion of notability. However, they can be used as supplemental source material for an article.
2. Internal documents can include reports, newsletters, press releases, magazines and websites published by the radio shows and hosts. This applies even if originally self-published material is later reprinted in other sources.

See also

• Wikipedia:Notability (music) (contain musicians notability guideline)