Wikipedia:List of ways to verify notability of articles

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List of ways to verify notability of articles is a list of tools that can help verifying notability of article topics.

This is an essay. It is not a policy or guideline. Please update the page as needed, or discuss it on the talk page.

Notability and inclusion guidelines

Notability guidelines Companies 'Cool' ideas Fiction Internet content Music Numbers People Pornographic actors Other Places of local interest Gender/race/sexuality categories Neologisms Active proposals Academics (talk) Books (talk) Candidates and Elections (talk) Churches etc (talk) Computer and Video Games (talk) Fandom (talk) Organizations (talk) Royalty (talk) Science: 1, 2 (talk) Software (talk) Songs (talk) Schools (talk) Trivia (talk) More... subject-specific See also: Precedents, Notability verification

See also general and specific notability topics listed in the template on the right, for:

• the interpretation of the notability concept in wikipedia context;
• defined and suggested thresholds for notability in several areas.

Contents 1 Entertainment 2 Websites 3 Geographic locations 4 Other material 5 Library research

[edit] Entertainment

• IMDb
• All Music Guide

[edit] Websites

• Note: These methods can often disprove a website's notability, but they do *NOT* neccesarily measure the degree of notability.
• Alexa (but note there are problems with this)
• backlink

[edit] Geographic locations

• Mapquest
• Google Maps

[edit] Other material

• Google testing
• Yahoo

[edit] Library research

Article for deletion reviews, although frequently limited to internet resources, must remain aware that a large amount of significant published material has not been posted on the internet. This is particularly true of materials published in languages other than English and of maps, gazetteers and such. In such cases notability may be established through review of such resources.