Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Historical archive/Policy/Notability/Arguments (section)

==Definition==

Notability is sometimes used as a synonym for [[Wikipedia:Verifiability|verifiability]], although others disagree. Notability to many is related to [[Wikipedia:Importance|importance]]. Articles should be relevant to a reasonable number of people. Reliable sources may indicate the seemingly trivial comic book is more notable than the much more important human tragedy. Notability is sometimes related to [[Wikipedia:Conflict of interest|conflict of interest]] or self-promotion. Wikipedia should not contain any material that presents the appearance of being intended to in any way promote the personal notoriety of the author, or one of the close family members or associates of the author.

Much of the debate about notability comes from varying definitions of what notability is. If an editor describes an article as non-notable, he or she may mean that it is original research, unverifiable, or self-promotion—all of which are criteria for deletion. If an editor says that a "non-notable" article should remain, he or she may mean that its relative obscurity does not make it [[unencyclopedic]] or preclude it in any other way.