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While notability itself is not temporary, from time to time a reassessment of the evidence of notability or suitability of existing articles may be requested by any user via a deletion discussion, or new evidence may arise for articles previously deemed unsuitable. Thus, an article may be proposed for deletion months or even years after its ...
Furthermore, the last time WP:NOTABILITY of the subject was questioned, it was unanimously agreed that it met notability. Per WP:NTEMP, the relevant quote is "Notability is not temporary; once a topic has been the subject of "significant coverage" in accordance with the general notability guideline, it does not need to have ongoing coverage."
The topic of the article must meet WP:Notability criteria; The Wikipedia article must contain at least enough content to meet the criteria of being a WP:STUB; The Wikipedia article must cite sources for whatever information it presents; Typically the Wikipedia community only evaluates whether an article meets notability criteria.
In the dictionary, notable means "worthy of being noted" or "attracting notice." Wikipedia bases its decision about whether web content is notable enough to justify a separate article on the verifiable evidence that the web content has attracted the notice of reliable sources unrelated to the web content, its authors, or its owners.
The remainder of WP:notability is a sourcing-based criteria, often referred to as "GNG" or the "General Notability Guideline"; we'll call it the "sourcing-GNG". Thus the term "GNG" has two common meanings, either the latter, or the entire WP:Notability page.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, a specific type of reference work properly containing articles on topics of knowledge.Wikipedia employs the concept of notability to avoid indiscriminate inclusion of topics by attempting to ensure that the subjects of articles are "worthy of notice" – by including articles only on topics that the world has taken note of by substantively treating them in ...
On the other hand, Old Tjikko in Sweden has had plenty of press coverage, so it is WP:Notable without even trying. When articles are listed for deletion on the grounds of the topic's notability, the creators of such articles often ask how they could write better articles about that topic. But they are, in fact, asking the wrong question.
Notability of reliable sources is the application of Wikipedia's rules on WP:Notability to the WP:Reliable sources which Wikipedia editors cite. This document considers assigning notability to sources on the basis of their importance as citations in Wikipedia. Consider the situation where the Wikipedia community is in agreement about the following: