Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability
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WikiProject Notability Welcome to Wikiproject Notability! We are currently working on a significant backlog, and need your help! |
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The Notability Project is a WikiProject based on Category:Wikipedia articles with topics of unclear importance. The aim is to reduce the number of non-notable articles, get more editors involved and support those currently involved in fixing, merging, or deleting apparently non-notable articles. The project also aims to simplify the filtration process and explain it more clearly so as not to confuse newcomers and to encourage participation.
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[edit] Scopes and Goals
Of the 1,535,495 articles on Wikipedia only around 1,000+ are of Featured Article standard; of those remaining, many are about non-notable events, places, or people, and are badly in need of either deletion or expanding. Wikiproject Notability aims to sort the articles and place {{expand}} or {{prod}} on them, or send the article to the AfD discussion.
The wikification process is simple, and 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.
[edit] How to Help
- Find an article to work on. Articles are now sorted by date (instead of alphabetics). Many editors choose to work on the oldest articles first, so that articles will not sit around too long in the category. It should be relatively easy to sort an article even without much experience in Wikipedia editing. The to-do list at the top of this page should contain the oldest set of articles.
- 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, you may also like to use copyscape.com for finding copyright violations. Instructions for reporting violations are at Wikipedia:Copyright problems.
- Check to see if another article exists on the subject. If so, then you can merge that article to the original.
- Sort! You can mainly use common sense, but adhering to the guidelines of WP:BIO, WP:CORP, WP:SCHOOL, WP:BAND (from where the most frequent violations come from).
- 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. Please use deletion as a last resort.
- If the article meets speedy deletion requirements, add the appropriate db tag.
- If the article should undeniably be deleted, add {{subst:prod|Your-reason-here}}, replacing "Your-reason-here" with an appropriate reason.
- 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.
- After you have finished, remove the notability or importance tag on the article.
- Enhance your edit summary As soon as you are done sorting, add to your edit summary:
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- Sorted as part of the [[WP:WPNN|Notability wikiproject]]!
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[edit] Current Progress
Last updated 15:05, 15 December 2006.
[edit] Userbox
There is a userbox you can post on your user page once you join. If you add {{User wikiproject-notability}}, it will post:
| NN | This user is part of the notability sorting drive. |
[edit] Member List
Please add your name to this list if you want to join. Just add:
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to the list below.
- Akihabara 09:33, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
- Diez2 14:49, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- Pascal.Tesson 05:55, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
- Jmax- 10:52, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
