Wikipedia:Notability
 | The following is a proposed Wikipedia policy, guideline, or process. The proposal may still be in development, under discussion, or in the process of gathering consensus for adoption. |
- If you are expecting to read the essay that stood here until September 6th, that essay has been moved to Wikipedia:Notability/Arguments.
Based on several sections in the policy on What Wikipedia is not, it is generally agreed that topics in most areas must exceed a certain threshhold of notability in order to have an article in Wikipedia.
Several guidelines (see table on the right) have been created, or are under discussion, to define more precisely what these thresholds should be.
Articles on non-notable subjects are frequently nominated for Proposed Deletion and Articles for Deletion, and are frequently deleted via those processes, as can be seen through precedents.