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Having published work does not, in itself, make an academic notable, no matter how many publications there are. Notability depends on the impact the work has had on the field of study. This notability guideline specifies criteria for judging the notability of an academic through reliable sources for the impact of their work.
This guideline helps to clarify the notability question. In some cases, you may need to justify to other Wikipedians why the article topic is notable and should remain in Wikipedia. Coverage in published, reliable, secondary sources that are entirely independent of the subject, and which treat the subject in substantive detail is the key to ...
Notability The basic requirement for a topic to have its own article is: significant coverage in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject. significant coverage means that sources address the subject directly in detail, so no original research is needed to extract the content.
Wikipedia is a nation of laws, not [mostly] men, and the guiding document at play on the project is the general notability guideline (GNG). In theory, notability is not about a person's importance, but only whether significant independent coverage in multiple reliable sources exists about them.
The general notability guideline creates a presumption of notability. The presumption (or assumption) is that a topic that has received significant coverage in independent, reliable sources should have a Wikipedia article written about it. An editor may show that the presumption may not apply to a topic through the deletion process. Other ...
Though the concept of a "book" is widely defined, this guideline does not provide specific notability criteria for the following types of publications: comic books; graphic novels (although it does apply to manga); magazines; reference works such as dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopedias, atlases and almanacs; music-specific publications such as instruction and notation books and librettos ...
Notability The basic requirement for a topic to have its own article is: significant coverage in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject. significant coverage means that sources address the subject directly in detail, so no original research is needed to extract the content.
For years there have been discussions on how school articles should fit into these guidelines, with many proposals having been made for a specific guideline on school article notability. Due to a lack of general consensus, many standards are now observed by regular editors who clean-up articles or propose them for merging or deletion.