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For topics outside of the domain of subject-specific notability guidelines, the existence of coverage itself is taken as a presumption of being noteworthy. This presumption can be challenged and debated at articles for deletion, since coverage is an imperfect indicator of noteworthiness.
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).
For commentary and discussion of this guideline, see Wikipedia:Essays in a nutshell/Notability and Category:Wikipedia essays about notability. Wikipedia:Secondary does not mean independent, an essay on the difference between first-person, first-party, and primary sources. Wikipedia:Identifying and using primary and secondary sources
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.
But notability is a different matter and rests on the amount of interest people have shown in a topic. Interest may grow or decline over time. The Wikipedia:Recentism essay addresses that issue quite comprehensively. I feel the name of this essay is not helpful, and the link from the Recentism essay is probably inappropriate.
The debate around accreditation in education often focuses on two extremes: the people who don’t believe in the necessity of a four-year degree and the people who think accreditation, and an Ivy ...
Title page from the first edition of Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) Some Thoughts Concerning Education is a 1693 treatise on the education of gentlemen written by the English philosopher John Locke. For over a century, it was the most important philosophical work on education in England. It was translated into almost all of the major written European languages during the ...
The College Football Playoff cake is getting close to baked, which means much of the angst and anger of the past few weeks over hypothetical and projected scenarios have proved a waste of time.