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WikiProject Notability
Welcome to WikiProject Notability! We are currently working on a significant backlog, and need your help!
 

The Notability Project is a WikiProject based on Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability. The aim is to get more editors involved and to support those currently involved in fixing, merging, or deleting (as a last resort) apparently non-notable articles with the ultimate aim to correctly place all articles based on their verifiable notability. The project also aims to simplify the filtration process and explain it more clearly so as not to confuse newcomers and to encourage participation.

Scopes and goals

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WikiProject Notability aims to sort articles of unclear notability by improving articles that are notable and then removing the notability tag. If the article is non-notable with no significant coverage in reliable sources found after searching and is inappropriate for a merge then deletion is sought by either Speedy deletion, Proposed deletion or Articles for deletion.

Articles assesssed to be Featured articles or Good articles have already been carefully checked for notability, and to a lesser extent so have B class articles. Therefore, articles of unclear notability are mainly in the stub class, start class and to a lesser extent C class categories.

We welcome input from any editors who would like to help out, either on a regular basis, or one or two articles when you have time. The greatest contribution to the project is inviting members, as this helps build support and ensures that there are people to clear the backlog.

How to help

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  1. Find an article to work on. Articles are sorted by date. Many editors choose to work on the oldest articles first, so that articles will not sit around too long in the category. The to-do list at the top of this page should contain the oldest set of articles. Alternatively, you may want to use article categories by date or article listings by WikiProject categories.
User:SD0001/shortdescs-in-category can be used to view short descriptions of pages in the categories – so that you can pick articles you're comfortable with.
  1. Check to see if the article contains a copyright violation. There are a few red flags that indicate text was probably illegally copied into Wikipedia - this actually happens quite frequently. User:Kjkolb/Copyvio has a quick guide and you may also like to use copyscape.com or Earwig's Copyvio Detector for finding copyright violations. Instructions for reporting violations are at Wikipedia:Copyright problems.
  2. Check to see if another article exists on the subject. If so, then you can consider merging that article to the original.
  3. Find sources if none are cited in the article. Make full use of Google Books, Google News, Google Scholar, Google Web, JSTOR, LexisNexis, and any other search tools that you may have access to. Use variations on the article's title and other keywords from the article. The {{find}} template could be useful in this regard.
  4. Sort! You can mainly use common sense, but adhering to the guidelines of WP:BIO, WP:CORP, WP:BAND (from where the most frequent violations come), and other notability criteria.
    1. If the article meets notability requirements, or if the article simply needs expanding, remove the notability or importance tag and replace it with an appropriate tag. If not, the article might need to be deleted. Please use deletion as a last resort.
    2. If the article meets speedy deletion requirements, add the appropriate db tag.
    3. If the article should undeniably be deleted, add {{subst:prod|Your-reason-here}}, replacing "Your-reason-here" with an appropriate reason.
    4. If the article might encounter some controversy when being deleted, add {{subst:afd1}} and then proceed to follow the steps to file an AfD discussion.
    5. Do not remove the notability/importance tags during one of the above deletion procedures.
    6. If an article is kept as the result of an AfD discussion, the {{notability}} tag should be removed. {{importance}} tags indicate that some rewriting of the article is required and should not be removed until that has been done. However, if the result is "no consensus", retain all tags, as the issue is not decided.
  5. Enhance your edit summary As soon as you are done sorting, add to your edit summary:
Sorted as part of the [[WP:WPNN|Notability wikiproject]]!

Special handling

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Some articles with notability questions need special handling, as described below. (These instructions may be updated on short notice.)

  • TV episodes and characters: Due to controversies in 2007 and 2008 about their notability,[1] articles about TV episodes or characters from TV shows should be handled with special care. It may not be possible to sort these articles on the short term. If you find such article on the end of the backlog (say the oldest 2-3 months) and cannot sort it, please add the parameter "cat=TV" to the notability tag. This will move the article off the backlog and to a special category, Television articles with topics of unclear notability, where it can be handled appropriately. Example:
{{notability|episode|date=June 2007|cat=TV}}

Current progress

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Articles with topics of unclear notability
Subtotals
October 201033
November 201061
December 2010182
January 2011103
February 2011128
March 2011188
April 2011192
May 2011221
June 2011209
July 2011220
August 2011192
September 2011242
October 2011216
November 2011172
December 2011250
January 2012210
February 2012242
March 2012204
April 2012197
May 2012210
June 2012197
July 2012202
August 2012248
September 2012173
October 2012214
November 2012216
December 2012198
January 2013136
February 2013164
March 2013212
April 2013222
May 2013169
June 2013221
July 2013169
August 2013178
September 2013167
October 2013218
November 2013193
December 2013180
January 2014227
February 2014219
March 2014199
April 2014114
May 2014216
June 2014233
July 2014219
August 2014204
September 2014292
October 2014206
November 2014166
December 2014150
January 2015218
February 2015264
March 2015274
April 2015276
May 2015258
June 2015240
July 2015250
August 2015236
September 2015220
October 2015224
November 2015275
December 2015245
January 2016237
February 2016218
March 2016209
April 2016307
May 2016277
June 2016212
July 2016259
August 2016222
September 2016257
October 2016249
November 2016212
December 2016269
January 2017276
February 2017363
March 2017288
April 2017318
May 2017358
June 2017384
July 2017420
August 2017302
September 2017269
October 2017242
November 2017277
December 2017303
January 2018378
February 2018276
March 2018313
April 2018322
May 2018308
June 2018299
July 2018250
August 2018303
September 2018331
October 2018255
November 2018339
December 2018249
January 2019348
February 2019238
March 2019329
April 2019260
May 2019341
June 2019299
July 2019326
August 2019236
September 2019193
October 2019255
November 2019273
December 2019219
January 2020343
February 2020319
March 2020350
April 2020393
May 2020381
June 2020666
July 2020343
August 2020336
September 2020404
October 2020482
November 2020374
December 2020400
January 2021325
February 2021344
March 2021395
April 2021396
May 2021409
June 2021438
July 2021360
August 2021379
September 2021331
October 2021429
November 2021413
December 2021373
January 2022393
February 2022508
March 2022425
April 2022422
May 2022453
June 2022653
July 2022609
August 2022417
September 2022611
October 2022606
November 2022489
December 2022383
January 2023606
February 2023466
March 2023664
April 2023838
May 2023751
June 2023582
July 2023483
August 2023499
September 2023430
October 2023479
November 2023480
December 2023558
January 2024919
February 2024767
March 2024602
April 2024652
May 2024913
June 2024629
July 2024620
August 2024739
September 20241,131
October 20241,024
November 202473
Undated articles1

Join the project

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Please add your signature to the bottom of the list of project members.

Userbox

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There is a userbox that you can add to your user page once you join:

{{User WikiProject notability}} displays as
NNThis user is part of the notability sorting drive.

Invitation template

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There is a template that you can add to a user's talk page to invite them to join this project:

{{WikiProject Notability Invite}} displays as

Notes

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  1. ^ See the final decisions of the ArbCom case concerning this problem.

See also

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