policy for more general deletion policy discussion. This page contains a discussion of the following question: Should lack of fame or importance be...
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other relevant policies. There was a poll on a similar policy at Wikipedia talk:Fame and importance. Archives Wikipedia talk:Importance/Archive 01 Although...
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familiar with the other relevant policies. There was a poll on a similar policy at Wikipedia talk:Fame and importance. There is widespread debate (mostly...
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Wikipedia talk:Non-notability/Archive 1 "However, it is valid to use notability as a guide to the placement of information" What exactly does this mean...
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something is. I would say that notability, in the wikipedia context, is a combination of fame/noteriety, importance/significance, and relative uniqueness. Soemthing...
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I took as my inspiration Jimbo's statements at Wikipedia talk:Fame and importance: "Consider an obscure scientific concept, 'Qubit Field Theory' -- 24...
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(UTC) I've just grouped the policy-related pages together as a fonds under a subpage: see Wikipedia:Historical archive/Policy. I'll gradually do the same...
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criterion for inclusion, per Jimbo's comments at Wikipedia talk:Fame and importance#No. The intention of the link is to invite the broadest number of...
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websites/companies notability on m:Policy discussion/Articles on commercial enterprises I took off the "guideline" tag, because I've never seen this page before, and I...
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Wikipedia talk:Fame and importance — in the original draft of what we are now calling notability, the term used was "fame and importance"; all that's changed...
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Readership is not relevant. Thinking that it is is to mistake notability for fame and importance. We don't exclude obscure species of beetles because they...
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comic's notability in another way: historical importance of the webcomic for the history of webcomics in general because of it's author's notability because...
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comic's notability in another way: historical importance of the webcomic for the history of webcomics in general because of it's author's notability because...
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talk:Fame and importance#No. This led to the Notability guideline developed following that to simply focus on ensuring articles are verifiable and NPOV...
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standards discussed here take into perspective the notability of athletes and coaches from a historical perspective.--Paul McDonald (talk) 18:43, 18 June...
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thought: the {{notability}} template could have links to Google and Google Scholar (and Google News?) using the Notability (web)/Archive 8 template. Favoring...
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Wikipedia talk:Notability_proposal, Wikipedia talk:Non-notability, Wikipedia talk:Importance, Wikipedia talk:Fame and importance, as well as Village...
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ongoing proposals for notability, I think that the historical/rejected Wikipedia talk:Fame and importance belongs in the category, as it may be relevant to...
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definitely partially based on popularity and interest. Look up the definition of notability and "fame" and "popularity" are some of the words that are...
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and represents all parties. I would also point out that debates over notability, importance, fame and significance predate the policies of WP:V and WP:NOR...
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can build consensus more generally to shift to a fame-based notability system; e.g. measuring notability by numbers of Google hits or YouTube followers...
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trying to make notability into a judgement of fame or importance. We don't do that for towns, mathematics subjects, or species of beetles, and we shouldn't...
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the location and scope of its effects are not relevant to its notability. Mother Theresa was notable; her effect was localized but her fame was global....
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people to Wikipedia talk:Fame and importance where Jimbo expressed this opinion with regards to any concepts of notability: what we're really interested...
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have a mistaken idea of what "notability" means in the context of Wikipedia. It has nothing to do with fame or popularity, and everything to do with being...
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Hall of Fame with this edit summary: Adding Bull Riding Hall of Fame created in 2012. Inducts already notable bull riders, bull fighters, bulls, and legends...
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the topic, and whether they have have independently decided to show it significant attention. Clarify that clear evidence of fame/importance (as opposed...
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idea, but saying a musician is notable if he has "historical importance" doesn't really define notability in a useful way. "noted by musical historians in...
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"[19] And in a discussion titled "Notability/Historical/Fame and importance", Jimbo wrote: "- 'fame' and 'importance' are not the right words to use, they...
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large and over a period of time" But then this is said: "Determining notability does not necessarily depend on things such as fame, importance, or popularity"...
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