Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability

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

Of the 5,441,878 articles now on Wikipedia, only 5073 are of Featured Article standard; of those remaining, many are about non-notable events, places, products, or people, and are badly in need of either deletion or expansion. WikiProject Notability aims to sort the articles and place {{incomplete}} or {{prod-nn}} on them, or send the article to the AfD discussion, or remove the tag altogether if the article is already adequate.

The process is simple, and 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

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. It should be relatively easy to sort an article even without much experience in Wikipedia editing. 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.
2. 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.
3. Check to see if another article exists on the subject. If so, then you can consider merging that article to the original.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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

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 recent controversies about their notability, 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, TV articles of unclear notability, where it can be handled appropriately. Example:

{{notability|episode|date=June 2007|cat=TV}}

Current Progress

Articles with topics of unclear notability
Subtotals August 2008 1 September 2008 89 October 2008 196 November 2008 260 December 2008 257 January 2009 278 February 2009 228 March 2009 496 April 2009 399 May 2009 393 June 2009 401 July 2009 435 August 2009 420 September 2009 379 October 2009 331 November 2009 360 December 2009 416 January 2010 502 February 2010 528 March 2010 538 April 2010 472 May 2010 443 June 2010 487 July 2010 447 August 2010 533 September 2010 501 October 2010 436 November 2010 392 December 2010 498 January 2011 614 February 2011 441 March 2011 460 April 2011 495 May 2011 587 June 2011 656 July 2011 545 August 2011 496 September 2011 725 October 2011 524 November 2011 453 December 2011 593 January 2012 573 February 2012 491 March 2012 497 April 2012 456 May 2012 526 June 2012 493 July 2012 537 August 2012 589 September 2012 539 October 2012 618 November 2012 487 December 2012 518 January 2013 420 February 2013 466 March 2013 499 April 2013 512 May 2013 464 June 2013 572 July 2013 448 August 2013 437 September 2013 422 October 2013 526 November 2013 531 December 2013 517 January 2014 573 February 2014 585 March 2014 591 April 2014 633 May 2014 626 June 2014 618 July 2014 577 August 2014 597 September 2014 761 October 2014 610 November 2014 507 December 2014 482 January 2015 720 February 2015 737 March 2015 728 April 2015 901 May 2015 789 June 2015 709 July 2015 726 August 2015 629 September 2015 652 October 2015 745 November 2015 845 December 2015 778 January 2016 694 February 2016 564 March 2016 664 April 2016 909 May 2016 1,029 June 2016 679 July 2016 712 August 2016 744 September 2016 736 October 2016 881 November 2016 777 December 2016 890 January 2017 941 February 2017 1,206 March 2017 1,148 April 2017 1,137 May 2017 1,393 June 2017 1,433 July 2017 869 Undated articles 0
All articles	63,368

Userbox

There is a userbox you can post on your user page once you join. If you add {{User wikiproject-notability}}, it will post:

NN This user is part of the notability sorting drive.

Invitation Template

There is now a template which you can use to invite other users to join this project. If you add to a user's talk page

{{Wikiproject Notability Invite}} ~~~~

it will post

Member List

Please add your name to this list if you want to join. Just add:

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to this list.

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See also

• Wikipedia:Notability