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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).
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.
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.
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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.
Please note that the failure to meet any of these criteria does not mean an article must be deleted; conversely, meeting any of these criteria does not mean that an article must be kept. Rather, these are rules of thumb used by some editors when deciding whether or not to keep an article that is listed at articles for deletion .
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Meaning: I have added or rephrased a longer bit of text in the article, and what follows is a summary. Secondary text (required): [a summary of the text in question] Secondary text (encouraged): [the reason or context for the change(s)] Examples: +Future expeditions; add:Future expeditions (b/c important new plans have been made public)