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Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Certain policies and guidelines have established a broad base of what will determine notability or encyclopaedic worth, and certain topic areas have criteria which have been developed by editors and achieved acceptance as guidelines.
Notability: a two part test. Notability, our standard regarding whether a topic merits its own article, fundamentally has two prongs. A subject must be both worthy of our notice and also must have been noticed and received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources, in order for us to write an encyclopedia article on the topic.
In literary theory, literariness is the organisation of language which through special linguistic and formal properties distinguishes literary texts from non-literary texts (Baldick 2008). The defining features of a literary work do not reside in extraliterary conditions such as history or sociocultural phenomena under which a literary text ...
A credible claim of significance is a statement in the article that attributes noteworthiness, or information written about the subject in reliable sources.. Wikipedia's speedy deletion criteria A7, A9 and A11 state that certain pages can be speedily deleted if they don't make a "credible claim of significance or importance" (among other requirements specific to each criterion).
On Wikipedia, notability is a test used by editors to decide whether a given topic warrants its own article. Information on Wikipedia must be verifiable; if no reliable, independent sources can be found on a topic, then it should not have a separate article.
Nota bene (/ ˈ n oʊ t ə ˈ b ɛ n eɪ /, / ˈ n oʊ t ə ˈ b ɛ n i / or / ˈ n oʊ t ə ˈ b iː n i /; plural: notate bene) is the Latin phrase meaning note well. [1] In manuscripts, nota bene is abbreviated in upper-case as NB and N.B. , and in lower-case as n.b. and nb ; the editorial usages of nota bene and notate bene first appeared ...