Template:Uw-notability
Thank you for your work adding new content to Wikipedia. Not all topics are notable (suitable for a stand-alone Wikipedia article). An article you created does not cite sources establishing notability, so it may get deleted. A source shows that the article topic is notable when it:
- contains significant coverage: it addresses the topic directly and in multiple paragraphs of detail. A source with only trivial or off-topic mentions of the subject doesn't count.
- is a reliable source: it has a reliable publication process, or a suitable expert author (look up the reliability of common sources, or discuss). Books and reputable newspapers usually meet these criteria, company and personal websites usually do not.
- is independent of the subject: it isn't produced by the article's subject or someone similarly affiliated with it. For example, these are not independent: the subject's press releases, autobiographies, website, and interviews.
If you can find notability-establishing sources, please add them: more than one is needed unless the applicable subject-specific notability guideline states otherwise. Specific questions can be answered live at the Teahouse help forum. Thank you.
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