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This page documents an English Wikipedia notability criteria.

Editors should generally follow it, though exceptions may apply. Substantive edits to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on this guideline's talk page.

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This page gives some rough guidelines which most Wikipedia editors use to decide if any form of web-specific content, being either the content of a website or the specific website itself should have an article on Wikipedia. Web content includes, but is not limited to, webcomics, podcasts, blogs, Internet forums, online magazines and other media, web portals and web hosts. Any content which is distributed solely on the internet is considered, for the purposes of this guideline, as web content.^[1]

Wikipedia is neither a vehicle for propaganda and advertising, nor is it a web directory. Articles which are wikispam are either deleted^[2] or cleaned up to adhere to the neutral point of view and no original research policies.

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion contains a listing of articles for deletion where editors apply the criteria outlined below.

Criteria for web content

Web-specific content is notable if it meets any one of the following criteria:

The content in question has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent from the site.
- This criterion includes published works in all forms, such as newspaper and magazine articles, books, television documentaries, and published reports by consumer watchdog organizations,^[3] except for the following:
  - Media re-prints of press releases and advertising for the content or site.^[4]
  - Trivial coverage, such as news articles that simply report the internet address, the times at which such content is updated or made available, a brief summary of the nature of the content or the publication of internet addresses and site or content descriptions in internet directories or online stores.
The site or content has won a well known and independent award, either from a publication or organization.^[5]
- Being nominated for an award in multiple years is considered an indicator of notability.
The content is distributed via a site which is both well known and independent of the creators, either through an online newspaper or magazine, an online publisher, or an online broadcaster.^[6]

The article itself must provide proof that its subject meets one of these criteria via inlined links or a Reference, Notes, or External link section. Even if an entire site meets the notability criteria, its components -- forums, articles, sections -- may not be considered notable and deserving of their own separate article.

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^ Content which has been packaged into material form, such as onto CD, DVD or book form, but which is still primarily only available for sale via the internet, still falls under these guidelines. If such packaging of the product is widely available for sale in major brick and mortar retailers, then it should be considered a product, for which see Wikipedia:Notability (companies and corporations).
^ If websites or content that do not meet these guidelines but are linked to a topic which does merit inclusion, they may be redirected to that topic rather than be listed for deletion.
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Examples:
- The webcomic When I Am King has been reviewed by The Guardian, Playboy, The Comics Journal, and Wired.
- The blog Daily Kos has been covered by Los Angeles Times, Time, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, and The New York Times.
^ Self-promotion and product placement are not the routes to having an encyclopaedia article. The published works must be someone else writing about the company, corporation, product, or service. (See Wikipedia:Autobiography for the verifiability and neutrality problems that affect material where the subject of the article itself is the source of the material.) The indicator for notability is whether people independent of the topic itself have considered the content or site notable enough that they wrote and published non-trivial works on that topic.
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Examples: (See Category:Awards)
- Eisner Awards, Bloggies or Webby Awards.
^ Content that is distributed by independent websites will typically satisfy the first criterion; regardless, it ensures the completeness of our criteria. For example, Ricky Gervais had a podcast distributed by The Guardian, which is considered nontrivial, but hosting content on well known sites as GeoCities and Newgrounds are considered trivial.

[1] Content which has been packaged into material form, such as onto CD, DVD or book form, but which is still primarily only available for sale via the internet, still falls under these guidelines. If such packaging of the product is widely available for sale in major brick and mortar retailers, then it should be considered a product, for which see Wikipedia:Notability (companies and corporations).

[2] If websites or content that do not meet these guidelines but are linked to a topic which does merit inclusion, they may be redirected to that topic rather than be listed for deletion.

[3] Examples:
The webcomic When I Am King has been reviewed by The Guardian, Playboy, The Comics Journal, and Wired.

The blog Daily Kos has been covered by Los Angeles Times, Time, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, and The New York Times.

[4] The webcomic When I Am King has been reviewed by The Guardian, Playboy, The Comics Journal, and Wired.

[5] The blog Daily Kos has been covered by Los Angeles Times, Time, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, and The New York Times.

[4] Self-promotion and product placement are not the routes to having an encyclopaedia article. The published works must be someone else writing about the company, corporation, product, or service. (See Wikipedia:Autobiography for the verifiability and neutrality problems that affect material where the subject of the article itself is the source of the material.) The indicator for notability is whether people independent of the topic itself have considered the content or site notable enough that they wrote and published non-trivial works on that topic.

[5] Examples: (See Category:Awards)
Eisner Awards, Bloggies or Webby Awards.

[8] Eisner Awards, Bloggies or Webby Awards.

[6] Content that is distributed by independent websites will typically satisfy the first criterion; regardless, it ensures the completeness of our criteria. For example, Ricky Gervais had a podcast distributed by The Guardian, which is considered nontrivial, but hosting content on well known sites as GeoCities and Newgrounds are considered trivial.

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-These [[Wikipedia:Notability|notability]] guidelines have been created to describe the minimum threshold of importance for web content <ref>Discussions of websites should be incorporated (with a redirect if necessary) into an article about the parent organization, unless the domain-name of the website is the most common way of referring to the organization. [[yahoo.com]], for example, is a redirect to [[Yahoo!]], but [[Drugstore.com]] is not.</ref> to have an article on Wikipedia. Any content which is distributed on the internet is considered web content, including [[webcomic]]s, [[Podcasting|podcasts]], [[blog]]s, [[Internet forum]]s, [[online magazine]]s and other [[mass media|media]], [[web portal|web portals]] and [[Web hosting service|web hosts]].<ref>Content which has been packaged into material form -- [[compact disc|CD]], [[DVD]] or [[book]]-- that are primarily available for sale via the internet falls under these guidelines. If such packaging of the product, however, is widely available for sale in major [[Bricks and mortar business|brick and mortar]] [[retailer]]s, then it should be considered a product. See [[Wikipedia:Notability (companies and corporations)]].</ref>
+This page gives some rough guidelines which most Wikipedia editors use to decide if any form of web-specific content, being either the content of a website or the specific website itself should have an article on Wikipedia.  Web content includes, but is not limited to, [[webcomic]]s, [[Podcasting|podcasts]], [[blog]]s, [[Internet forum]]s, [[online magazine]]s and other [[mass media|media]], [[web portal|web portals]] and [[Web hosting service|web hosts]].  Any content which is distributed solely on the internet is considered, for the purposes of this guideline, as web content.<ref>Content which has been packaged into material form, such as onto [[compact disc|CD]], [[DVD]] or [[book]] form, but which is still primarily only available for sale via the internet, still falls under these guidelines.  If such packaging of the product is widely available for sale in major [[Bricks and mortar business|brick and mortar]] [[retailer]]s, then it should be considered a product, for which see [[Wikipedia:Notability (companies and corporations)]].</ref>
 Wikipedia is neither [[Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_soapbox|a vehicle for propaganda and advertising]], nor is it a [[Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Wikipedia_is_not_a_mirror_or_a_repository_of_links.2C_images.2C_or_media_files|web directory]]. Articles which are [[Wikipedia:spam|wikispam]] are either deleted<ref>If websites or content that do not meet these guidelines but are linked to a topic which does merit inclusion, they may be [[Wikipedia:Redirect|redirected]] to that topic rather than be listed for deletion.</ref> or [[Wikipedia:cleanup|cleaned up]] to adhere to the [[Wikipedia:neutral point of view|neutral point of view]] and [[Wikipedia:No original research|no original research]] policies.

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