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WikiProject Notability
Welcome to WikiProject Notability! We are currently working on a significant backlog of 197 months for 56,724 articles 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
November 201028
December 2010152
January 201190
February 2011122
March 2011153
April 2011175
May 2011189
June 2011172
July 2011181
August 2011169
September 2011214
October 2011187
November 2011157
December 2011220
January 2012181
February 2012205
March 2012169
April 2012168
May 2012178
June 2012177
July 2012174
August 2012213
September 2012155
October 2012174
November 2012175
December 2012157
January 2013118
February 2013140
March 2013179
April 2013194
May 2013132
June 2013188
July 2013134
August 2013146
September 2013135
October 2013187
November 2013171
December 2013154
January 2014198
February 2014199
March 2014155
April 201483
May 2014176
June 2014180
July 2014187
August 2014179
September 2014218
October 2014183
November 2014131
December 2014122
January 2015152
February 2015193
March 2015227
April 2015233
May 2015236
June 2015217
July 2015230
August 2015215
September 2015194
October 2015205
November 2015252
December 2015225
January 2016226
February 2016201
March 2016198
April 2016286
May 2016258
June 2016202
July 2016246
August 2016208
September 2016230
October 2016235
November 2016205
December 2016253
January 2017245
February 2017333
March 2017253
April 2017295
May 2017330
June 2017354
July 2017385
August 2017286
September 2017251
October 2017223
November 2017247
December 2017277
January 2018355
February 2018260
March 2018296
April 2018304
May 2018288
June 2018272
July 2018238
August 2018276
September 2018309
October 2018240
November 2018316
December 2018233
January 2019319
February 2019227
March 2019312
April 2019237
May 2019318
June 2019280
July 2019302
August 2019222
September 2019186
October 2019234
November 2019248
December 2019203
January 2020327
February 2020298
March 2020326
April 2020367
May 2020358
June 2020633
July 2020319
August 2020308
September 2020372
October 2020453
November 2020347
December 2020372
January 2021302
February 2021325
March 2021368
April 2021367
May 2021381
June 2021412
July 2021344
August 2021343
September 2021306
October 2021398
November 2021382
December 2021350
January 2022363
February 2022482
March 2022383
April 2022387
May 2022419
June 2022619
July 2022556
August 2022399
September 2022567
October 2022557
November 2022439
December 2022352
January 2023537
February 2023436
March 2023605
April 2023776
May 2023695
June 2023544
July 2023443
August 2023456
September 2023393
October 2023434
November 2023438
December 2023498
January 2024836
February 2024677
March 2024537
April 2024550
May 2024760
June 2024517
July 2024504
August 2024591
September 2024823
October 2024707
November 2024743
December 2024650
January 2025880
February 2025837
March 2025760
April 20251,012
May 20251,311
Undated articles0

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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