Template:Notability/doc

Usage

When to use

Add this template to the top of any page whose article subject is, in your judgment, reasonably likely to be non-notable (not the sort of subject that Wikipedia ought to have an article about). When an article is certainly, hopelessly non-notable, then you should nominate it for proposed deletion or take it to Articles for deletion instead.

Deletion is not clean up. Do not use this tag merely because the page requires significant work. Notability requires only that appropriate sources have been published about the subject. It does not require that any editor has already named these sources, followed the neutral, encyclopedic style, or otherwise written a good article.

How to use

Listed below are two types of examples of usage:

• {{Notability|date=December 2024}}

or

• {{Notability|Products|date=December 2024}} if a specific parameter is wanted.

In the above example "Products" refers to products and services. The parameter can be changed to any of the options in the list below; for example: {{notability|academics|date=December 2024}}. Note: Insert the actual month and year that you place the template on the page. Do not use the automatic {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} templates.

This template will add the article to Category:All articles with topics of unclear notability and Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability from December 2024, both hidden categories.

Providing no arguments to the template will link to the generic notability guidelines. An optional argument renders the message more specific. Specific options include:

Argument	Specific guideline
Academics or Prof	notability guideline for academics
Astro	notability guideline for astronomical objects
Bio, Biography, or Biographies	notability guideline for biographies
Book or Books	notability guideline for books
Companies, Corp, Institutions, Org, Organisations, or Organizations	notability guidelines for companies and organizations
Event or Events	notability guideline for events
Film, Films, Movie, or Movies	notability guideline for films
Geo, Geographic, Geography, Place, or Places	notability guideline for geographic features
List or Lists	notability guideline for stand-alone lists
Music	notability guideline for music
Neologisms	notability guideline for neologisms
Numbers	notability guideline for numbers
Products	notability guidelines for products and services
Sport or Sports	notability guideline for sports and athletics
Television or TV	notability guideline for television
Web	notability guideline for web content

Otherwise the main general notability guideline article is referenced.

Removing this tag

If you find an article that is tagged as having notability concerns, and you are certain that enough in-depth, independent sources have been published about the subject to overcome any notability issues, then you may remove this tag. It is highly desirable, but not technically required, for you to add a list of good sources to the article or its talk page, so that other editors will know about the existence of these sources.

If the template is re-added, please do not edit war over it. Questions of notability can be resolved through discussion or through Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. If the article exists within the scope of a specific WikiProject it may be beneficial to invite feedback from the group.

Template data

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Notability in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Notability

This template adds notice that the article may not meet a notability guideline, either in general or one in particular.

Template parameters

This template prefers inline formatting of parameters.

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Guideline	1	An identifier for an applicable notability guideline: Academics, Prof, Astro, Bio, Biography, Biographies, Book, Books, Companies, Corp, Institutions, Org, Organisations, Organizations, Event, Events, Film, Films, Movie, Movies, Geo, Geographic, Geography, Place, Places, List, Lists, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Products, Sport, Sports, or Web	String	optional
Month and year	date	The month and year that this notability concern was placed Auto value {{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}	String	suggested

See also

• {{Famous}}

Tracking categories

• Category:All articles with topics of unclear notability (0)

Redirects

• {{Cleanup-notability}}
• {{Nn}}
• {{NN}}
• {{Nonnotable}}
• {{Notable}}