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WikiProject Notability
Welcome to WikiProject Notability! We are currently working on an enormous backlog of
214 months
for
55,967 articles
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

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WikiProject Notability aims to sort articles of unclear notability by improving articles that are notable and then removing the notability tag. If the article is non-notable with no significant coverage in reliable sources found after searching and is inappropriate for a merge then deletion is sought by either Speedy deletion, Proposed deletion or Articles for deletion.

Articles assessed to be Featured articles or Good articles have already been carefully checked for notability, and to a lesser extent so have B class articles. Therefore, articles of unclear notability are mainly in the stub class, start class and to a lesser extent C class categories.

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.

Progress

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The chart below shows the recent history of the backlog. It includes articles not undergoing a deletion process that are tagged with {{Notability}} or a variant. Number of articles in backlogDate010,00020,00030,00040,00050,00060,0009/29/20269/30/202610/1/2026ListsOrganisationsBLPsOther articlesArticles with topics of unclear notability: statistics(updates daily) At the beginning of the day (UTC) on 1 October 2026 there were:

  • 55,480 articles with topics of unclear notability,a change of 9 since the day before

At the current average rate of 5 articles per day, it will take 11,096 days to clear the backlog, finishing on 16 February 2057. (raw data)

How to help

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  1. Find an article to work on. In Category:All articles with topics of unclear notability, every article appears, sorted alphabetically. Many editors choose to work on the oldest articles first, so that articles will not sit around too long in the category - for this, choose Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability. Alternatively, the to-do list at the top of this page should contain the very oldest set of articles. Or you could use Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability/Listing by project categories, listing articles by WikiProject.
    ::User:SD0001/shortdescs-in-category can be used to view short descriptions of pages in the categories – so that you can pick articles you're comfortable with.
  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. Evaluate! You can mainly use common sense, but please adhere to the guidelines of WP:BIO, WP:CORP, WP:BAND (from where the most frequent violations come), and other notability criteria. 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.
    1. 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

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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 controversies in 2007 and 2008 about their notability,[1] 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, Television articles with topics of unclear notability, where it can be handled appropriately. Example:
{{notability|episode|date=June 2007|cat=TV}}

Current progress

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Articles with topics of unclear notability
Subtotals
December 20106
January 201149
February 201151
March 201176
April 201199
May 2011124
June 2011136
July 2011131
August 2011154
September 2011168
October 2011137
November 2011125
December 2011158
January 2012151
February 2012152
March 2012120
April 2012135
May 2012129
June 2012144
July 2012138
August 2012165
September 2012130
October 2012127
November 2012141
December 2012125
January 201388
February 201392
March 2013127
April 2013163
May 201398
June 2013135
July 2013101
August 2013116
September 201398
October 2013151
November 2013126
December 2013104
January 2014152
February 2014156
March 2014125
April 201445
May 2014141
June 2014135
July 2014164
August 2014139
September 2014175
October 2014146
November 201489
December 201493
January 2015112
February 2015142
March 2015190
April 2015172
May 2015159
June 2015143
July 2015172
August 2015128
September 2015121
October 2015135
November 2015172
December 2015153
January 2016146
February 2016114
March 2016130
April 2016179
May 2016170
June 2016142
July 2016141
August 2016133
September 2016153
October 2016147
November 2016150
December 2016153
January 2017156
February 2017234
March 2017171
April 2017180
May 2017244
June 2017242
July 2017276
August 2017210
September 2017168
October 2017140
November 2017168
December 2017178
January 2018248
February 2018167
March 2018209
April 2018222
May 2018200
June 2018187
July 2018160
August 2018206
September 2018217
October 2018171
November 2018242
December 2018165
January 2019240
February 2019171
March 2019211
April 2019155
May 2019230
June 2019221
July 2019239
August 2019175
September 2019139
October 2019179
November 2019196
December 2019161
January 2020269
February 2020236
March 2020253
April 2020275
May 2020257
June 2020520
July 2020284
August 2020270
September 2020324
October 2020404
November 2020302
December 2020298
January 2021257
February 2021282
March 2021298
April 2021312
May 2021343
June 2021337
July 2021293
August 2021299
September 2021255
October 2021352
November 2021314
December 2021296
January 2022312
February 2022383
March 2022343
April 2022336
May 2022369
June 2022536
July 2022483
August 2022318
September 2022451
October 2022471
November 2022320
December 2022289
January 2023434
February 2023368
March 2023523
April 2023605
May 2023592
June 2023394
July 2023375
August 2023367
September 2023314
October 2023351
November 2023338
December 2023382
January 2024657
February 2024537
March 2024440
April 2024470
May 2024599
June 2024409
July 2024416
August 2024471
September 2024626
October 2024540
November 2024540
December 2024425
January 2025573
February 2025542
March 2025471
April 2025620
May 2025929
June 2025826
July 2025934
August 2025900
September 2025889
October 2025858
November 2025708
December 2025566
January 2026710
February 2026747
March 2026860
April 2026749
May 2026797
June 2026639
July 2026777
August 2026945
September 20261,122
October 202639
Undated articles1

Join the project

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Please add your signature to the bottom of the list of project members.

Userbox

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There is a userbox that you can add to your user page once you join:

{{User WikiProject notability}} displays as
NNThis user is part of the notability sorting drive.

Invitation template

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There is a template that you can add to a user's talk page to invite them to join this project:

{{WikiProject Notability Invite}} displays as

Notes

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  1. ^ See the final decisions of the ArbCom case concerning this problem.

See also

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability - DefZone.Net