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href="#Examples_of_trivial_coverage"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.3</span> <span>Examples of trivial coverage</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Examples_of_trivial_coverage-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Examples_of_substantial_coverage" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Examples_of_substantial_coverage"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.4</span> <span>Examples of substantial coverage</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Examples_of_substantial_coverage-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Audience" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Audience"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.5</span> <span>Audience</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Audience-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Illegal_conduct" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Illegal_conduct"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.2.6</span> <span>Illegal conduct</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Illegal_conduct-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Independent_sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Independent_sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Independent sources</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Independent_sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Examples_of_dependent_coverage" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Examples_of_dependent_coverage"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3.1</span> <span>Examples of dependent coverage</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Examples_of_dependent_coverage-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Multiple_sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Multiple_sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>Multiple sources</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Multiple_sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Reliable_sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Reliable_sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span> <span>Reliable sources</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Reliable_sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Secondary_sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Secondary_sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.6</span> <span>Secondary sources</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Secondary_sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Product_reviews" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Product_reviews"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.7</span> <span>Product reviews</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Product_reviews-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Special_notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Special_notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Special notes</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Special_notes-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Special notes subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Special_notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Advertising_and_promotion" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Advertising_and_promotion"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Advertising and promotion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Advertising_and_promotion-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cryptocurrencies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cryptocurrencies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Cryptocurrencies</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cryptocurrencies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Alternate criteria for specific types of organizations</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations-sublist" class="cdx-button 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id="toc-Local_units_of_larger_organizations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Schools" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Schools"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Schools</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Schools-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Religious_organizations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religious_organizations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Religious organizations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religious_organizations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Commercial_organizations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Commercial_organizations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Commercial organizations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Commercial_organizations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Publicly_traded_corporations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Publicly_traded_corporations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4.1</span> <span>Publicly traded corporations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Publicly_traded_corporations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Chains_and_franchises" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Chains_and_franchises"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4.2</span> <span>Chains and franchises</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Chains_and_franchises-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Products_and_services" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Products_and_services"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5</span> <span>Products and services</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Products_and_services-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Transport_infrastructure" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Transport_infrastructure"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.6</span> <span>Transport infrastructure</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Transport_infrastructure-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-If_it's_not_notable" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#If_it's_not_notable"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>If it's not notable</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-If_it's_not_notable-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:V%C3%BDznamnost_(instituce)" title="Wikipedie:Významnost (instituce) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Wikipedie:Významnost (instituce)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kriterier_for_virksomhedsartikler" title="Wikipedia:Kriterier for virksomhedsartikler – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Wikipedia:Kriterier for virksomhedsartikler" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:%CE%95%CE%B3%CE%BA%CF%85%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%B1_(%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%BF%CE%AF_%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9_%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%B1%CE%B9%CF%81%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B5%CF%82)" title="Βικιπαίδεια:Εγκυκλοπαιδικότητα (οργανισμοί και εταιρείες) – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Βικιπαίδεια:Εγκυκλοπαιδικότητα (οργανισμοί και εταιρείες)" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Criterio_de_relevancia_en_art%C3%ADculos_empresariales_y_organizaciones" title="Wikipedia:Criterio de relevancia en artículos empresariales y organizaciones – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Wikipedia:Criterio de relevancia en artículos empresariales y organizaciones" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C_(%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7_%D9%88_%D8%B4%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%AA%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7)" title="ویکی‌پدیا:سرشناسی (سازمان‌ها و شرکت‌ها) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ویکی‌پدیا:سرشناسی (سازمان‌ها و شرکت‌ها)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Notori%C3%A9t%C3%A9_des_entreprises,_soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9s_et_produits" title="Wikipédia:Notoriété des entreprises, sociétés et produits – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Wikipédia:Notoriété des entreprises, sociétés et produits" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%84%ED%82%A4%EB%B0%B1%EA%B3%BC:%EB%AC%B8%EC%84%9C_%EB%93%B1%EC%9E%AC_%EA%B8%B0%EC%A4%80_(%ED%9A%8C%EC%82%AC_%EB%B0%8F_%EB%8B%A8%EC%B2%B4)" title="위키백과:문서 등재 기준 (회사 및 단체) – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="위키백과:문서 등재 기준 (회사 및 단체)" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kelayakan_artikel/Organisasi_dan_perusahaan" title="Wikipedia:Kelayakan artikel/Organisasi dan perusahaan – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Wikipedia:Kelayakan artikel/Organisasi dan perusahaan" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiuto:Criteri_di_enciclopedicit%C3%A0/Aziende" title="Aiuto:Criteri di enciclopedicità/Aziende – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Aiuto:Criteri di enciclopedicità/Aziende" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipedija:Reik%C5%A1mingumas_(%C4%AFmon%C4%97s_ir_organizacijos)" title="Vikipedija:Reikšmingumas (įmonės ir organizacijos) – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Vikipedija:Reikšmingumas (įmonės ir organizacijos)" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Nevezetess%C3%A9g_(szervezetek_%C3%A9s_t%C3%A1rsas%C3%A1gok)" title="Wikipédia:Nevezetesség (szervezetek és társaságok) – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Wikipédia:Nevezetesség (szervezetek és társaságok)" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%88%D8%B8%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B8%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA" title="ويكيبيديا:ملحوظيه شركات و منظمات – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ويكيبيديا:ملحوظيه شركات و منظمات" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%9D%E1%80%AE%E1%80%80%E1%80%AE%E1%80%95%E1%80%AE%E1%80%B8%E1%80%92%E1%80%AE%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9A%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8:%E1%80%91%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%9B%E1%80%BE%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8%E1%80%A1%E1%80%9B%E1%80%B1%E1%80%B8%E1%80%95%E1%80%AB%E1%80%99%E1%80%BE%E1%80%AF_(%E1%80%A1%E1%80%96%E1%80%BD%E1%80%B2%E1%80%B7%E1%80%A1%E1%80%85%E1%80%8A%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%80%99%E1%80%BB%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8%E1%80%94%E1%80%BE%E1%80%84%E1%80%B7%E1%80%BA_%E1%80%80%E1%80%AF%E1%80%99%E1%80%B9%E1%80%95%E1%80%8F%E1%80%AE%E1%80%99%E1%80%BB%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8)" title="ဝီကီပီးဒီးယား:ထင်ရှားအရေးပါမှု (အဖွဲ့အစည်းများနှင့် ကုမ္ပဏီများ) – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ဝီကီပီးဒီးယား:ထင်ရှားအရေးပါမှု (အဖွဲ့အစည်းများနှင့် ကုမ္ပဏီများ)" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Relevantie/Ondernemingen" title="Wikipedia:Relevantie/Ondernemingen – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Wikipedia:Relevantie/Ondernemingen" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E7%89%B9%E7%AD%86%E6%80%A7_(%E7%B5%84%E7%B9%94)" title="Wikipedia:特筆性 (組織) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="Wikipedia:特筆性 (組織)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipediya:Ensiklopedik_ahamiyat_(tashkilotlar_va_shirkatlar)" title="Vikipediya:Ensiklopedik ahamiyat (tashkilotlar va shirkatlar) – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Vikipediya:Ensiklopedik ahamiyat (tashkilotlar va shirkatlar)" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Propozycje_kryteri%C3%B3w_encyklopedyczno%C5%9Bci/Przedsi%C4%99biorstwa" title="Wikipedia:Propozycje kryteriów encyklopedyczności/Przedsiębiorstwa – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Wikipedia:Propozycje kryteriów encyklopedyczności/Przedsiębiorstwa" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Crit%C3%A9rios_de_notoriedade/Empresas,_ONGs_e_outros" title="Wikipédia:Critérios de notoriedade/Empresas, ONGs e outros – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Wikipédia:Critérios de notoriedade/Empresas, ONGs e outros" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8_%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B9" title="Википедия:Критерии значимости организаций – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Википедия:Критерии значимости организаций" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%B4%E0%B7%93%E0%B6%A9%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%8F:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)" title="විකිපීඩියා:Notability (organizations and companies) – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="විකිපීඩියා:Notability (organizations and companies)" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0:%D0%97%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%98_(%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%9B%D0%B0_%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B5)" title="Википедија:Значај (предузећа и организације) – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Википедија:Значај (предузећа и организације)" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE:%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B1%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%88_(%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%81,_%E0%AE%A8%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B1%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D)" title="விக்கிப்பீடியா:குறிப்பிடத்தக்கமை (அமைப்பு, நிறுவனங்கள்) – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="விக்கிப்பீடியா:குறிப்பிடத்தக்கமை (அமைப்பு, நிறுவனங்கள்)" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a 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data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F:%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%96%D1%97_%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%87%D1%83%D1%89%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%96/%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%96%D1%97" title="Вікіпедія:Критерії значущості/Організації – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Вікіпедія:Критерії значущості/Організації" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%C4%90%E1%BB%99_n%E1%BB%95i_b%E1%BA%ADt_(t%E1%BB%95_ch%E1%BB%A9c_v%C3%A0_c%C3%B4ng_ty)" title="Wikipedia:Độ nổi bật (tổ chức và công ty) – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" 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You may have been looking for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Organizations" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Organizations">WikiProject Organizations</a> or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Companies" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Companies">WikiProject Companies</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238436933">.mw-parser-output .ombox{margin:4px 0;border-collapse:collapse;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);box-sizing:border-box;color:var(--color-base,#202122)}.mw-parser-output .ombox.mbox-small{font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ombox-speedy{border:2px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ombox-delete{border:2px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ombox-content{border:1px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ombox-style{border:1px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ombox-move{border:1px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ombox-protection{border:2px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.9em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ombox .mbox-invalid-type{text-align:center}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ombox{margin:4px 10%}.mw-parser-output .ombox.mbox-small{clear:right;float:right;margin:4px 0 4px 1em;width:238px}}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output table.ombox img{max-width:none!important}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .ombox-speedy{background-color:#310402}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .ombox-speedy{background-color:#310402}}</style><table class="plainlinks ombox ombox-notice" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Blue tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Blue_check.svg/30px-Blue_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Blue_check.svg/45px-Blue_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Blue_check.svg/60px-Blue_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><b>This page documents an English Wikipedia <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_notability_guidelines" title="Category:Wikipedia notability guidelines">notability guideline</a>.</b><br/><div style="font-size: 90%;">Editors should generally follow it, though <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules" title="Wikipedia:Ignore all rules">exceptions</a> may apply. Substantive edits to this page should reflect <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PGCHANGE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PGCHANGE">consensus</a>. When in doubt, discuss first on <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)" title="Wikipedia talk:Notability (organizations and companies)">this guideline's talk page</a>.</div></td><td class="mbox-imageright"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1252059228">.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain{float:right;margin:0 0 0 1em;border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);background-color:var(--background-color-base,#fff);padding:0.3em 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em;text-align:center;font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxleft{float:left;margin:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutlist{display:inline-block;border-bottom:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);margin-bottom:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutboxplain ul{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .module-shortcutanchordiv{position:relative;top:-3em}.mw-parser-output li .module-shortcutanchordiv{float:right}.mw-parser-output .mbox-imageright .module-shortcutboxplain{padding:0.4em 1em 0.4em 1em;line-height:1.3;margin:0}</style><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ORG"></span><span id="WP:NORG"></span><span id="WP:CORP"></span><span id="WP:NCORP"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ORG&redirect=no">WP:ORG</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NORG&redirect=no">WP:NORG</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CORP&redirect=no">WP:CORP</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NCORP&redirect=no">WP:NCORP</a></span></li></ul></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238436933"><table class="plainlinks ombox ombox-notice nutshell" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Walnut.png/30px-Walnut.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="30" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Walnut.png/45px-Walnut.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Walnut.png/60px-Walnut.png 2x" data-file-width="192" data-file-height="192"/></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><b>This page in a nutshell:</b> An organization is generally considered <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability" title="Wikipedia:Notability">notable</a> if it has been the subject of significant coverage in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable</a>, independent <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SECONDARY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SECONDARY">secondary sources</a>. 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class="hlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(academics)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (academics)">Academics</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(astronomical_objects)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (astronomical objects)">Astronomical objects</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(books)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (books)">Books</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(events)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (events)">Events</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(films)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (films)">Films</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(geographic_features)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (geographic features)">Geographic features</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(music)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (music)">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(numbers)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (numbers)">Numbers</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Organizations and companies</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (people)">People</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(species)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (species)">Species</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(sports)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (sports)">Sports and athletes</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(web)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (web)">Web content</a></li></ul> </div></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> See also</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Essay_directory#Notability" title="Wikipedia:Essay directory">Notability essays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Guide to deletion">Guide to deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Common_outcomes" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Common outcomes">Common deletion outcomes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_was_the_page_I_created_deleted%3F" title="Wikipedia:Why was the page I created deleted?">Why was my article deleted?</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini 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title="Special:EditPage/Template:Notability sidebar"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>This page is to help determine whether an organization (commercial or otherwise), or any of its products and services, is a valid subject for a <i>separate Wikipedia article dedicated solely to that organization, product, or service</i>. The scope of this guideline covers all groups of people organized together for a purpose with the exception of non-profit educational institutions, religions or sects, and sports teams. If another subject-specific notability guideline applies to a group, it may be notable by passing either this or the more specific guideline. For example, bands are covered by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:MUSIC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:MUSIC">WP:MUSIC</a>. </p><p>Simply stated, an organization is a group of more than one person formed together for a purpose. This includes commercial and non-commercial activities, such as <a href="/wiki/Charitable_organization" title="Charitable organization">charitable organizations</a>, <a href="/wiki/Political_party" title="Political party">political parties</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hospitals" class="mw-redirect" title="Hospitals">hospitals</a>, <a href="/wiki/Institution" title="Institution">institutions</a>, <a href="/wiki/Interest_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Interest group">interest groups</a>, <a href="/wiki/Social_club" title="Social club">social clubs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Company" title="Company">companies</a>, <a href="/wiki/Partnership" title="Partnership">partnerships</a>, <a href="/wiki/Proprietorship" class="mw-redirect" title="Proprietorship">proprietorships</a>, for-profit educational institutions or organizations, etc. </p><p>This guideline does not cover small groups of closely related people such as families, entertainment groups, co-authors, and co-inventors covered by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (people)">WP:Notability (people)</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Decisions_based_on_verifiable_evidence" data-mw-thread-id="h-Decisions_based_on_verifiable_evidence"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Decisions_based_on_verifiable_evidence"></span>Decisions based on verifiable evidence<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Decisions_based_on_verifiable_evidence"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Decisions based on verifiable evidence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability#Notability_requires_verifiable_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Notability">Wikipedia:Notability § Notability requires verifiable evidence</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ORGIN"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ORGIN&redirect=no">WP:ORGIN</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Wikipedia bases its decision about whether an organization is notable enough to justify a separate article on the verifiable evidence that the organization or product has attracted the notice of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable sources</a> <i>unrelated</i> to the organization or product. Notability requires only that these necessary sources have been <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Published" title="Wikipedia:Published"><i>published</i></a>—even if these sources are not actually listed in the article yet (though in most cases it probably would improve the article to add them). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="No_inherent_notability" data-mw-thread-id="h-No_inherent_notability-Decisions_based_on_verifiable_evidence"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-No_inherent_notability-Decisions_based_on_verifiable_evidence"></span>No inherent notability<span data-mw-comment-end="h-No_inherent_notability-Decisions_based_on_verifiable_evidence"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: No inherent notability"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ORGSIG"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ORGSIG&redirect=no">WP:ORGSIG</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>No company or organization is considered inherently notable. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ITSA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ITSA">No organization is exempt from this requirement, no matter what kind of organization it is</a>, including <a href="#Schools">schools</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If the individual organization has received no or very little notice from <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Independent_sources" title="Wikipedia:Independent sources">independent sources</a>, then it is not notable simply because other individual organizations of its type are commonly notable or merely because <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ENN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ENN">it exists</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1033199720">.mw-parser-output div.crossreference{padding-left:0}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">(see <a href="#If_it's_not_notable">§ If it's not notable</a>, below)</span>. "Notability" is not synonymous with "fame" or "importance". No matter how "important" editors may personally believe an organization to be, it should not have a stand-alone article in Wikipedia <em>unless</em> reliable sources independent of the organization have given significant coverage to it. </p><p>When evaluating the notability of organizations or products, please consider whether they have had any significant or demonstrable effects on culture, society, entertainment, athletics, economies, history, literature, science, or education. Large organizations and their products are likely to have more readily available <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verifiable</a> information from <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable sources</a> that provide evidence of notability. However, smaller organizations and their products can be notable, just as individuals can be notable. Arbitrary standards should not be used to create a bias favoring larger organizations or their products, though articles about very small "garage" or local companies are typically unacceptable per <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTADVERTISING" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTADVERTISING">WP:NOTADVERTISING</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="No_inherited_notability" data-mw-thread-id="h-No_inherited_notability-Decisions_based_on_verifiable_evidence"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-No_inherited_notability-Decisions_based_on_verifiable_evidence"></span>No inherited notability<span data-mw-comment-end="h-No_inherited_notability-Decisions_based_on_verifiable_evidence"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: No inherited notability"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:INHERITORG"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:INHERITORG&redirect=no">WP:INHERITORG</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PRODUCT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PRODUCT">WP:PRODUCT</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NBUSINESSPERSON" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NBUSINESSPERSON">WP:NBUSINESSPERSON</a></div> <p>An organization is not notable merely because a notable person or event was associated with it. A corporation is not notable merely because it owns notable subsidiaries. The organization or corporation itself must have been discussed in reliable independent sources for it to be considered notable. Examples: If a notable person buys a restaurant, the restaurant does not "inherit" notability from its owner. If a notable person joins an organization, the organization does not "inherit" notability from its member. </p><p>This works the other way as well. An organization may be notable, but individual members (or groups of members) do not "inherit" notability due to their membership. A corporation may be notable, but its subsidiaries do not "inherit" notability from being owned by the corporation. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Primary_criteria" data-mw-thread-id="h-Primary_criteria"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Primary_criteria"></span>Primary criteria<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Primary_criteria"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Primary criteria"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PSTS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PSTS">WP:PSTS</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability#General_notability_guideline" title="Wikipedia:Notability">Wikipedia:Notability § General notability guideline</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ORGCRITE"></span><span id="WP:ORGCRIT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ORGCRITE&redirect=no">WP:ORGCRITE</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ORGCRIT&redirect=no">WP:ORGCRIT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Company" title="Company">company</a>, <a href="/wiki/Corporation" title="Corporation">corporation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Organization" title="Organization">organization</a>, <a href="/wiki/Social_group" title="Social group">group</a>, <a href="/wiki/Product_(business)" title="Product (business)">product</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Service_(economics)" title="Service (economics)">service</a> is presumed <b>notable</b> if it has been the subject of <b>significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject</b>. </p><p>These criteria, generally, follow the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GNG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GNG">general notability guideline</a> with a stronger emphasis on quality of the sources to prevent gaming of the rules by marketing and public relations professionals. The guideline, among other things, is meant to address some of the common issues with abusing Wikipedia for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PROMO" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PROMO">advertising and promotion</a>. As such, the guideline establishes generally higher requirements for sources that are used to establish notability than for sources that are allowed as acceptable references within an article. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="How_to_apply_the_criteria" data-mw-thread-id="h-How_to_apply_the_criteria-Primary_criteria"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-How_to_apply_the_criteria-Primary_criteria"></span>How to apply the criteria<span data-mw-comment-end="h-How_to_apply_the_criteria-Primary_criteria"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: How to apply the criteria"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:SIRS"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:SIRS&redirect=no">WP:SIRS</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Individual sources must be evaluated separately and independently of each other and meet the four criteria below to determine if a source qualifies towards establishing notability: </p> <ol><li>Contain <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SIGCOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SIGCOV">significant coverage</a> addressing the subject of the article directly and in depth.</li> <li>Be completely <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:INDEPENDENT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:INDEPENDENT">independent</a> of the article subject.</li> <li>Meet the standard for being a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable</a> source.</li> <li>Be a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SECONDARY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SECONDARY">secondary source</a>; primary and tertiary sources do not count towards establishing notability.</li></ol> <p>An <i>individual</i> source must meet <b>all</b> of these criteria to be counted towards establishing notability; each source needs to be significant, independent, reliable, and secondary. In addition, there must also be <b>multiple</b> such sources to establish notability. If the suitability of a source is in doubt, it is better to exercise caution and exclude the source for the purposes of establishing notability. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style=";"> <div class="quotebox-title" style="">An example</div> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>Imagine that a draft article on <a href="/wiki/Acme_Corporation" title="Acme Corporation">Acme Inc.</a> cites four sources: a single-sentence mention in an article by <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> while pointing out a missing feature in a rival's product when compared to the product by Acme; an extensive company profile in a <i><a href="/wiki/Forbes#Forbes.com" title="Forbes">Forbes.com</a></i> blog by a non-staff contributor; a blog post by a tech enthusiast who has provided a review of the product; and a court filing by a competitor alleging patent infringement. Analysis: </p> <ul><li>The <i>New York Times</i> article is reliable, independent, and secondary – but not significant (a single-sentence mention in an article about another company).</li> <li>The <i>Forbes</i> blog profile is significant and secondary – but not independent or reliable (most such posts are company-sponsored or based on a company's marketing materials - see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FORBESCON" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:FORBESCON">WP:FORBESCON</a>).</li> <li>The tech blog review is significant and secondary – but may not be independent (blog posts are often sponsored) and is not reliable (self-published sources are generally not reliable, unless they are written by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SPS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SPS">subject-matter experts</a>).</li> <li>The court filing is significant and reliable (in that the court record is a verified account of a legal action being taken) – but not secondary (court filings are primary sources) or independent (they are written by the parties to the legal action, which have a vested interest in the outcome).</li></ul> <p>Therefore, the article does not have a single source that could be used to establish the notability of the company, let alone multiple sources. </p> </blockquote> </div> <p>The analysis of the above example can be summarized in the following table: </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Source</th> <th>Significant?</th> <th>Independent?</th> <th>Reliable?</th> <th>Secondary?</th> <th>Pass/Fail</th> <th>Notes </th></tr> <tr> <td><i>The New York Times</i></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span></td> <td>A single-sentence mention in an article about another company. </td></tr> <tr> <td>Profile in <i>Forbes</i></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span></td> <td>Most such posts are company-sponsored or based on company's marketing materials. </td></tr> <tr> <td>Tech blog post</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Question" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Blue_question_mark_%28italic%29.svg/20px-Blue_question_mark_%28italic%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Blue_question_mark_%28italic%29.svg/30px-Blue_question_mark_%28italic%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Blue_question_mark_%28italic%29.svg/40px-Blue_question_mark_%28italic%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display:none">?</span></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span></td> <td>Blog posts are often sponsored and self-published sources are generally not reliable unless written by a subject-matter expert. </td></tr> <tr> <td>Court filing</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green tick" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/13px-Green_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/20px-Green_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Green_check.svg/26px-Green_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span></td> <td>Court filings are primary sources. While we hope they will be truthful, court filings are written by the company (or its opponents in court), so they are not independent. </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="5">Total qualifying sources</th> <th>0</th> <th><div style="float: left;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">There must be multiple qualifying sources to meet the notability requirements</span></div> </th></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238436933"><table class="plainlinks ombox ombox-notice" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Crystal_Clear_app_ktip.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Crystal_Clear_app_ktip.svg/40px-Crystal_Clear_app_ktip.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Crystal_Clear_app_ktip.svg/60px-Crystal_Clear_app_ktip.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Crystal_Clear_app_ktip.svg/80px-Crystal_Clear_app_ktip.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128"/></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure></td><td class="mbox-text"><div><span style="font-size:110%;"><b>Tip: How to create a source assessment table</b></span></div> If you'd like to add a source assessment table to any deletion discussion page, you may use the user script <a href="/wiki/User:DannyS712/SATG" title="User:DannyS712/SATG">User:DannyS712/SATG</a> or the template <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Source_assess_table" title="Template:Source assess table">Source assess table</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>.</td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Significant_coverage" data-mw-thread-id="h-Significant_coverage-Primary_criteria"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Significant_coverage-Primary_criteria"></span>Significant coverage<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Significant_coverage-Primary_criteria"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Significant coverage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:CORPDEPTH"></span><span id="WP:ORGDEPTH"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CORPDEPTH&redirect=no">WP:CORPDEPTH</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ORGDEPTH&redirect=no">WP:ORGDEPTH</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>The depth of coverage of the subject by the source must be considered. Trivial or incidental coverage of a subject is not sufficient to establish notability. Deep or significant coverage provides an overview, description, commentary, survey, study, discussion, analysis, or evaluation of the product, company, or organization. Such coverage provides an organization with a level of attention that extends well beyond brief mentions and routine announcements, and makes it possible to write more than a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Permastub" title="Wikipedia:Permastub">very brief, incomplete stub</a> about the organization. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Numerical_facts" data-mw-thread-id="h-Numerical_facts-Significant_coverage"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Numerical_facts-Significant_coverage"></span>Numerical facts<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Numerical_facts-Significant_coverage"></span></h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Numerical facts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Quantity</i> does not determine significance. It is the <i>quality</i> of the content that governs. A collection of multiple trivial sources does not become significant. Views, hits, likes, shares, etc. have no bearing on establishing whether the coverage is significant. Similarly, arbitrary statistics and numbers (such as number of employees, amount of revenue or raised capital, age of the company, etc.) do not make the coverage significant. For the coverage to be significant, the sources must describe and <i>discuss</i> in some depth the treatment of the employees or major changes in leadership instead of just listing the fact that the corporation employs 500 people or mentioning that John Smith was appointed as the new CEO. Further, the significance is not determined by the reputation of the source. For example, a 400-word article in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Village_Voice" title="The Village Voice">The Village Voice</a></i> is a lot more significant than a single-sentence mention in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. However, the reputation of the source does help to determine whether the source is <a href="#Reliable_sources">reliable</a> and <a href="#Independent_sources">independent</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Significant_coverage_of_the_company_itself" data-mw-thread-id="h-Significant_coverage_of_the_company_itself-Significant_coverage"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Significant_coverage_of_the_company_itself-Significant_coverage"></span>Significant coverage of the company itself<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Significant_coverage_of_the_company_itself-Significant_coverage"></span></h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Significant coverage of the company itself"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sources are not transferable or attributable between related parties. Sources that describe only a specific topic related to an organization should not be regarded as providing significant coverage of that organization. Therefore, for example, an article on a product recall or a biography of a CEO is a significant coverage for the Wikipedia article on the product or the CEO, but not a significant coverage on the company (unless the article or biography devotes significant attention to the company itself). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Examples_of_trivial_coverage" data-mw-thread-id="h-Examples_of_trivial_coverage-Significant_coverage"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Examples_of_trivial_coverage-Significant_coverage"></span>Examples of trivial coverage<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Examples_of_trivial_coverage-Significant_coverage"></span></h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Examples of trivial coverage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:CORPTRIV"></span><span id="WP:ORGTRIV"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CORPTRIV&redirect=no">WP:CORPTRIV</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ORGTRIV&redirect=no">WP:ORGTRIV</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Examples of trivial coverage that do not count toward meeting the significant coverage requirement: </p> <ul><li>simple listings or compilations, such as: <ul><li>of telephone numbers, addresses, directions, event times, shopping hours,</li> <li>of office locations, branches, franchises, or subsidiaries,</li> <li>of employees, officers, directors, owners, or shareholders (see above for <a href="#No_inherited_notability">#No inherited notability</a>),</li> <li>of product or service offerings,</li> <li>of product instruction manuals, specifications, or certifications,</li> <li>of patents, copyrights, clinical trials, or lawsuits,</li> <li>of event schedules or results (such as theater performance schedule, score table of a sporting event, listing of award recipients),</li> <li>of statistical data,</li></ul></li> <li>standard notices, brief announcements, and routine coverage, such as:<span class="anchor" id="Routine"></span><span class="anchor" id="Routine_coverage"></span> <ul><li>of changes in share or bond prices,</li> <li>of quarterly or annual financial results and earning forecasts,</li> <li>of the opening or closing of local branches, franchises, or shops,</li> <li>of a product or a product line launch, sale, change, or discontinuance,</li> <li>of the participation in industry events, such as trade fairs or panel discussions,</li> <li>of the shareholders' meetings or other corporate events,</li> <li>of the hiring, promotion, or departure of personnel,</li> <li>of the expansions, acquisitions, mergers, sale, or closure of the business,</li> <li>of a capital transaction, such as raised capital,</li></ul></li> <li>brief or passing mentions, such as: <ul><li>of non-notable awards received by the organization, its people, or products,</li> <li>of sponsorship of events, non-profit organizations, or volunteer work,</li> <li>in quotations from an organization's personnel as story sources,</li> <li>as an example of a type of company or product being discussed (e.g. "In response to the protests, various companies, such as Acme Inc, have pledged to address working conditions in their factories")</li></ul></li> <li>inclusion in lists of similar organizations, particularly in "best of", "top 100", "fastest growing" or similar lists,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>inclusion in collections that have indiscriminate inclusion criteria (i.e. attempt to include every existing item instead of selecting the best, most notable examples), such as databases, archives, directories, dictionaries, bibliographies, certain almanacs,</li> <li>coverage of purely local events, incidents, controversies (see also <a href="#Audience">#Audience</a> below),</li> <li>presentations, speeches, lectures, etc. given by organization's personnel,</li> <li>other listings and mentions not accompanied by commentary, survey, study, discussion, analysis, or evaluation of the product, company, or organization.</li></ul> <p>The examples above are not meant to be exhaustive. </p><p>See <a href="#Product_reviews">#Product reviews</a> for a full discussion on what reviews of restaurants, events, and products qualify as significant coverage. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Examples_of_substantial_coverage" data-mw-thread-id="h-Examples_of_substantial_coverage-Significant_coverage"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Examples_of_substantial_coverage-Significant_coverage"></span>Examples of substantial coverage<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Examples_of_substantial_coverage-Significant_coverage"></span></h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Examples of substantial coverage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:SUBSTANTIAL"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:SUBSTANTIAL&redirect=no">WP:SUBSTANTIAL</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Examples of substantial coverage that would generally be sufficient to meet the requirement: </p> <ul><li>A news article discussing a prolonged controversy regarding a corporate merger,</li> <li>A scholarly article, a book passage, or ongoing media coverage focusing on a product or organization,</li> <li>A documentary film exploring environmental impact of the corporation's facilities or products,</li> <li>An encyclopedia entry giving an overview of the history of an organization,</li> <li>A report by a consumer watchdog organization on the safety of a specific product,</li> <li>An extensive how-to guide written by people wholly independent of the company or product (e.g. <i><a href="/wiki/For_Dummies" title="For Dummies">For Dummies</a></i>).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Audience" data-mw-thread-id="h-Audience-Significant_coverage"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Audience-Significant_coverage"></span>Audience<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Audience-Significant_coverage"></span></h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Audience"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:AUD"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:AUD&redirect=no">WP:AUD</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>The source's audience must also be considered. Significant coverage in media with an international, national, or at least <a href="/wiki/Newspaper#Local_or_regional" title="Newspaper">regional</a> audience (e.g., the biggest daily newspaper in any US state) is a strong indication of notability. Attention <i>solely</i> from local media (e.g., the weekly newspaper for a small town), or media of limited interest and circulation (e.g., a newsletter exclusively for people with a very unusual job), is not an indication of notability. At least <i>one</i> regional, statewide, provincial, national, or international source is necessary. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Illegal_conduct" data-mw-thread-id="h-Illegal_conduct-Significant_coverage"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Illegal_conduct-Significant_coverage"></span>Illegal conduct<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Illegal_conduct-Significant_coverage"></span></h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Illegal conduct"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ILLCON"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ILLCON&redirect=no">WP:ILLCON</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>It is possible that an organization that is not itself generally <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTE">notable</a> will have a number of significant sources discussing its (alleged) illegal conduct. Sources that primarily discuss purely such conduct cannot be used to establish an organization's notability under this guideline. However, the organization may still be notable, in whole or in part due to such sources, under different guidelines, e.g., <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CRIME" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CRIME">WP:CRIME</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Independent_sources" data-mw-thread-id="h-Independent_sources-Primary_criteria"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Independent_sources-Primary_criteria"></span>Independent sources<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Independent_sources-Primary_criteria"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Independent sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:INDEPENDENT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:INDEPENDENT">WP:INDEPENDENT</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:COI" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:COI">WP:COI</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ORGIND"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ORGIND&redirect=no">WP:ORGIND</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>A primary test of notability is whether unrelated people with no <a href="/wiki/Vested_interest_(communication_theory)" title="Vested interest (communication theory)">vested interest</a> in the subject have actually considered the company, corporation, product or service notable enough that they have written and published non-trivial, non-routine works that focus upon it. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SPIP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SPIP">Self-promotion</a>, <a href="/wiki/Product_placement" title="Product placement">product placement</a>, or any other form of <a href="/wiki/Paid_media" class="mw-redirect" title="Paid media">paid media</a> do not count towards qualifying for an encyclopedia article. <b>Only <a href="/wiki/Earned_media" title="Earned media">unpaid sources</a> count</b>. There are two types of independence to consider when evaluating sources: </p> <ul><li>Independence of the <i>author</i> (or functional independence): the author must be unrelated to the company, organization, or product. Related persons include organization's personnel, owners, investors, (sub)contractors, vendors, distributors, suppliers, other business partners and associates, customers, competitors, sponsors and sponsorees (including <a href="/wiki/Astroturfing" title="Astroturfing">astroturfing</a>), and other parties that have something, financially or otherwise, to gain or lose.</li> <li>Independence of the <i>content</i> (or intellectual independence): the content must not be produced by interested parties. Often a related party produces a narrative that is then copied, regurgitated, and published in whole or in part by independent parties (as exemplified by <a href="/wiki/Churnalism" title="Churnalism">churnalism</a>). Independent content, in order to count towards establishing notability, must include original and independent opinion, analysis, investigation, and <a href="/wiki/Fact_checking" class="mw-redirect" title="Fact checking">fact checking</a> that are clearly attributable to a source unaffiliated to the subject.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:TRADES"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:TRADES&redirect=no">WP:TRADES</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="TRADES"></span><a href="/wiki/Trade_magazine" title="Trade magazine">Trade publications</a> must be used with great care. While feature stories<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> from leading trade magazines may be used where independence is clear, there is a presumption against the use of coverage in trade magazines to establish notability. </p><p>If a source's independence is in any doubt, it is better to exercise caution and exclude it from determining quality sources for the purposes of establishing notability. If contested, consensus on the use of sources can be sought at the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard">Reliable sources/Noticeboard</a>. </p><p>Once notability is established, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PRIMARY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PRIMARY">primary sources</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_and_using_self-published_works" title="Wikipedia:Identifying and using self-published works">self-published sources</a> <i>may</i> be used with appropriate care to verify some of the article's content. See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Autobiography" title="Wikipedia:Autobiography">Wikipedia:Autobiography</a> for the verifiability and neutrality problems that affect material where the subject of the article itself is the source of the material. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Examples_of_dependent_coverage" data-mw-thread-id="h-Examples_of_dependent_coverage-Independent_sources"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Examples_of_dependent_coverage-Independent_sources"></span>Examples of dependent coverage<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Examples_of_dependent_coverage-Independent_sources"></span></h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Examples of dependent coverage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Examples of dependent coverage that is <i>not</i> sufficient to establish notability: </p> <ul><li>press releases, press kits, or similar <a href="/wiki/Public_relations" title="Public relations">public relations</a> materials</li> <li>any material that is substantially based on such press releases even if published by independent sources (<a href="/wiki/Churnalism" title="Churnalism">churnalism</a>),</li> <li>advertising and marketing materials by, about, or on behalf of the organization, <ul><li>including pieces like "case studies" or "success stories" by Chambers of Commerce, business incubators, consulting firms, etc.</li></ul></li> <li>any paid or sponsored articles, posts, and other publications, <ul><li>including pieces by non-staff "contributors" to <a href="/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes">Forbes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Huffington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Huffington Post">Huffington Post</a>, <a href="/wiki/Entrepreneur.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Entrepreneur.com">Entrepreneur.com</a>, <a href="/wiki/Inc.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Inc.com">Inc.com</a>, <a href="/wiki/TechCrunch" title="TechCrunch">TechCrunch</a>, and other publications that accept public contributions and that do not provide meaningful editorial oversight of the submitted content,</li></ul></li> <li><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/self-publishing" class="extiw" title="wikt:self-publishing">self-published</a> materials, including <a href="/wiki/Vanity_press" title="Vanity press">vanity press</a>,</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patent" title="Patent">patents</a>, whether pending or granted,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>any material written or published, including websites, by the organization, its members, or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:COISOURCE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:COISOURCE">sources closely associated with it</a>, directly or indirectly,</li> <li>other works in which the company, corporation, organization, or group talks about itself—whether published by itself, or re-printed by other people (for example, self-submitted biographies to <i><a href="/wiki/Who%27s_Who" title="Who's Who">Who's Who</a></i>).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Multiple_sources" data-mw-thread-id="h-Multiple_sources-Primary_criteria"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Multiple_sources-Primary_criteria"></span>Multiple sources<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Multiple_sources-Primary_criteria"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Multiple sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:MULTSOURCES"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:MULTSOURCES&redirect=no">WP:MULTSOURCES</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>A single significant independent source is almost never sufficient for demonstrating the notability of an organization. </p><p>"Source" on Wikipedia can refer to the work itself, the author of the work, and/or the publisher of the work. For notability purposes, sources must be unrelated to each other to be "multiple". A story from a single news organization (such as <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">AP</a>) reprinted in multiple newspapers (say, in the <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i>, the <i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" title="Chicago Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a></i>, and the <i><a href="/wiki/Orlando_Sentinel" title="Orlando Sentinel">Orlando Sentinel</a></i>) is still one source (one newspaper article). If multiple journalists at multiple newspapers separately and independently write about the same subject, then each of these unrelated articles should be considered separate sources, even if they are writing about the same event or "story". A series of articles by the same journalist is still treated as one source (one person). The appearance of different articles in the same newspaper is still one source (one publisher). Similarly, a series of books by the same author is one source. </p><p>The existence of multiple significant independent sources needs to be demonstrated. Hypothetical sources (e.g. "the company is big/old/important so there must be more sources, I just don't have/can't find them") do not count towards the notability requirement. </p><p>The word "multiple" is not a set number and depends on the type of organization or product. Editors should recognize certain biases, such as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recentism" title="Wikipedia:Recentism">recentism</a> (greater availability of recent sources) when assessing historical companies or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias" title="Wikipedia:Systemic bias">systemic bias</a> (greater availability of English and Western sources) when discussing organizations in the developing world. Therefore, for example, a Bangladeshi women's rights organization from the 1960s might establish notability with just one or two quality sources, while the same is not true for a tech start-up in a major U.S. metropolitan area. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Reliable_sources" data-mw-thread-id="h-Reliable_sources-Primary_criteria"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Reliable_sources-Primary_criteria"></span>Reliable sources<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Reliable_sources-Primary_criteria"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Reliable sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SOURCE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SOURCE">WP:SOURCE</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">WP:RS</a></div> <p>Reliable sources, generally, are third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. The best sources have a professional structure in place for checking or analyzing facts, legal issues, evidence, and arguments. The greater the degree of scrutiny given to these issues, the more reliable the source. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Questionable_sources" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Questionable sources">Questionable sources</a> are those that have a poor reputation for checking the facts, lack meaningful editorial oversight, or have an apparent conflict of interest. Self-published sources, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SPS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SPS">although they may be reliable for verification purposes</a>, are generally not accepted as evidence of notability. For a full discussion on what is and what is not a reliable source, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources">Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Secondary_sources" data-mw-thread-id="h-Secondary_sources-Primary_criteria"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Secondary_sources-Primary_criteria"></span>Secondary sources<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Secondary_sources-Primary_criteria"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Secondary sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SECONDARY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SECONDARY">WP:SECONDARY</a></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Secondary_source" title="Secondary source">secondary source</a> provides an author's own thinking based on primary sources, generally at least one step removed from an event. It contains an author's analysis, evaluation, interpretation, or synthesis of the facts, evidence, concepts, and ideas taken from primary sources. Secondary sources are not necessarily significant, reliable or independent sources. </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Primary_source" title="Primary source">primary source</a> is original material that is close to an event, and is often an account written by people who are directly involved. Primary sources cannot be used to establish notability. In a business setting, frequently encountered primary sources include: </p> <ul><li>corporate annual or financial reports, proxy statements,</li> <li>memoirs or interviews by executives,</li> <li>public announcements of corporate actions (press releases),</li> <li>court filings, patent applications,</li> <li>government audit or inspection reports,</li> <li>customer testimonials or complaints,</li> <li>product instruction manuals or specifications.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Product_reviews" data-mw-thread-id="h-Product_reviews-Primary_criteria"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Product_reviews-Primary_criteria"></span>Product reviews<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Product_reviews-Primary_criteria"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Product reviews"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:PRODUCTREV"></span><span id="WP:RESTAURANTREVIEWS"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PRODUCTREV&redirect=no">WP:PRODUCTREV</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:RESTAURANTREVIEWS&redirect=no">WP:RESTAURANTREVIEWS</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Product, event, and restaurant reviews (i.e. where author describes personal opinions and experiences) must be handled with great care and diligence. Some types of reviews have a longer history and established traditions (e.g. restaurants, wine, books, movies), while other (e.g. new tech gadgets, travel blogs) are newer and more prone to manipulation by marketing and public relations personnel. </p><p>Like any other source, to be counted towards the notability requirements, reviews must be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SIRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SIRS">independent secondary sources that contain significant coverage of the subject</a>: </p> <ol><li>Be significant: Brief and routine reviews (including <a href="/wiki/Zagat" title="Zagat">Zagat</a>) do not qualify. Significant reviews are where the author has personally experienced or tested the product and describes their experiences in some depth, provides broader context, and draws comparisons with other products. Reviews that narrowly focus on a particular product or function without broader context (e.g. review of a particular meal without description of the restaurant as a whole) do not count as significant sources. Reviews that are too generic or vague to make the determination whether the author had personal experience with the reviewed product are not to be counted as significant sources. Further, the reviews must be published outside of purely local or narrow (highly specialized) interest publications (see also <a href="#Audience">#Audience</a>). For example, a review of a local <a href="/wiki/Harvest_festival" title="Harvest festival">harvest festival</a> in a local newspaper or a book review in a newsletter by a city's library would not be a strong indicator of notability.</li> <li>Be independent: Many reviews are not independent and are, in fact, a type of advertisement and <a href="/wiki/Product_placement" title="Product placement">product placement</a>. <a href="/wiki/Review#Bought_review" title="Review">Sponsored reviews</a> include reviews where the reviewed product is provided free of charge to the author. Often, sponsored nature of a review is not disclosed and not immediately apparent. In particular, a strong indication of a sponsored or other relationship is a review that is excessively positive or negative. Therefore, editors should use reviews <i>only</i> from sources with well established reputation for independence and objectivity. Further, reviews that simply regurgitate someone else's opinion are also not independent sources unless enough original work was put in to produce a <a href="/wiki/Meta" class="mw-disambig" title="Meta">meta</a> review (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Review_aggregator" title="Review aggregator">review aggregators</a>). If the suitability of a source is in doubt, it is better to exercise caution and to exclude the source for the purposes of establishing notability. Once notability is established, non-independent reviews <i>may</i> be used to verify some non-controversial facts in the article (e.g. number of employees, number of tables in a restaurant, product models).</li> <li>Be reliable: The reviews must be published in reliable sources that provide editorial oversight and strive to maintain objectivity. Self-published reviews (e.g. most blogs) do not qualify.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Special_notes" data-mw-thread-id="h-Special_notes"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Special_notes"></span>Special notes<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Special_notes"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Special notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Advertising_and_promotion" data-mw-thread-id="h-Advertising_and_promotion-Special_notes"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Advertising_and_promotion-Special_notes"></span>Advertising and promotion<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Advertising_and_promotion-Special_notes"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Advertising and promotion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ADPROMO"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ADPROMO&redirect=no">WP:ADPROMO</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTADVERTISING" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTADVERTISING">Advertising</a> is prohibited as an official Wikipedia policy. Advertising should be removed by following these steps, in order: </p> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleanup" title="Wikipedia:Cleanup">Clean up</a> per <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">Wikipedia:NPOV</a></li> <li>Erase remaining advertising content from the article</li> <li>Delete the article by listing it at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Articles for deletion">Wikipedia:Articles for deletion</a> if no notable content remains. However, if an article contains only blatant advertising, with no other useful content, it may be tagged per <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion">Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion</a> instead.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cryptocurrencies" data-mw-thread-id="h-Cryptocurrencies-Special_notes"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Cryptocurrencies-Special_notes"></span>Cryptocurrencies<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Cryptocurrencies-Special_notes"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Cryptocurrencies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(cryptocurrencies)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (cryptocurrencies)">Wikipedia:Notability (cryptocurrencies)</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:NCRYPTO"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NCRYPTO&redirect=no">WP:NCRYPTO</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>When establishing the notability of <a href="/wiki/Cryptocurrencies" class="mw-redirect" title="Cryptocurrencies">cryptocurrencies</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Blockchain" title="Blockchain">blockchain</a>-related projects, the consensus is that <b>crypto-centric news organizations</b>—such as <a href="/wiki/CoinDesk" title="CoinDesk">Coindesk</a> or <a href="/wiki/Bitcoin_Magazine" title="Bitcoin Magazine">Bitcoin Magazine</a>—generally cannot be used, as they do not provide coverage that can be considered "independent" from their subject for the purposes of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ORGCRITE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ORGCRITE">WP:ORGCRITE</a>. The notability of such projects must therefore be established on the basis of other sources, such as <b>mainstream</b> reliable <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NEWSORG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NEWSORG">news sources</a>. The essay <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(cryptocurrencies)" title="Wikipedia:Notability (cryptocurrencies)">Wikipedia:Notability (cryptocurrencies)</a> may offer useful guidance. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations" data-mw-thread-id="h-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"></span>Alternate criteria for specific types of organizations<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Alternate criteria for specific types of organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following sections discuss alternate methods for establishing notability in specific situations. <b>No organization is considered notable except to the extent that independent sources demonstrate that it has been noticed by people outside of the organization.</b> These criteria constitute an optional, alternative method for demonstrating notability. Organizations are considered notable if they meet one of the following sourcing requirements </p> <ol><li>these alternate criteria,</li> <li>the <a href="#Primary_criteria">primary criteria</a> for organizations, <i>or</i></li> <li>the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GNG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GNG">general notability guideline</a></li></ol> <p><i>and</i> the article complies with the policy <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not">Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not</a>, especially with regards to avoiding indiscriminate inclusion of information. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-commercial_organizations" data-mw-thread-id="h-Non-commercial_organizations-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Non-commercial_organizations-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"></span>Non-commercial organizations<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Non-commercial_organizations-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Non-commercial organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:CLUB"></span><span id="WP:NONPROFIT"></span><span id="WP:NGO"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CLUB&redirect=no">WP:CLUB</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NONPROFIT&redirect=no">WP:NONPROFIT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NGO&redirect=no">WP:NGO</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Organizations are usually notable if they meet <b>both</b> of the following standards: </p> <ol><li>The scope of their activities is national or international in scale.</li> <li>The organization has received significant coverage in multiple <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable sources</a> that are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Independent_sources" title="Wikipedia:Independent sources">independent</a> of the organization.</li></ol> <p>Additional considerations are: </p> <ul><li><i>Nationally well-known local organizations:</i> Some organizations are local in scope, but have achieved national or even international notice. Organizations whose activities are local in scope (e.g., a school or club) can be considered notable if there is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NRVE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NRVE">substantial verifiable evidence of coverage</a> by reliable independent sources outside the organization's local area. Where coverage is only local in scope, consider adding a section on the organization to an article on the organization's local area instead.</li> <li><i>Factors that have attracted widespread attention:</i> The organization's longevity, size of membership, major achievements, prominent scandals, or other factors specific to the organization should be considered to the extent that these factors have been reported by independent sources. This list is not exhaustive and not conclusive.</li> <li>Caveat – Be cautious of claims that small organizations are national or international in scale. The fact that an organization has branches in multiple countries does not <i>necessarily</i> mean that its activities are <i>truly</i> international. Example: a tiny fraternal organization with a total membership of sixty members, worldwide, is not "international in scale" simply because the members live in separate countries and have formed sub-chapters where they live.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Local_units_of_larger_organizations" data-mw-thread-id="h-Local_units_of_larger_organizations-Non-commercial_organizations"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Local_units_of_larger_organizations-Non-commercial_organizations"></span>Local units of larger organizations<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Local_units_of_larger_organizations-Non-commercial_organizations"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Local units of larger organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:BRANCH"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BRANCH&redirect=no">WP:BRANCH</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <ul><li>As a general rule, the individual chapters of national and international organizations are usually not considered notable enough to warrant a separate article – <i>unless</i> they are substantially discussed by reliable independent sources that extend beyond the chapter's local area.</li> <li>In some cases, a specific local chapter or sub-organization that is not considered notable enough for its own article may be significant enough to mention <i>within the context</i> of an article about the parent organization. If the parent article grows to the point where information needs to be split off to a new article, remember that when you split off an article about a local chapter, the local chapter itself must comply with Wikipedia's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:N" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:N">notability</a> guidelines, without reference to the notability of the parent organization. Take care not to split off a section that would be considered non-notable on its own. Splitting should occur as a top-down process. See <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Splitsection" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Splitsection">splitsection</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>.</li> <li><i>Aim for one good article, not multiple <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Permastub" title="Wikipedia:Permastub">permanent stubs</a>:</i> Individual chapters, divisions, departments, and other sub-units of notable organizations are only rarely notable enough to warrant a separate article. Information on chapters and affiliates should normally be merged into the article about the parent organization. <i>See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Merging" title="Wikipedia:Merging">Wikipedia:Merging</a>.</i></li> <li>Information on sub-chapters of notable organizations might be included in either prose or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Embedded_lists" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Embedded lists">a brief list</a> in the main article on the organization. If an embedded list becomes too large for the parent article, consideration may be given to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Splitting" title="Wikipedia:Splitting">splitting</a> out as a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:LISTCOMPANY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LISTCOMPANY">stand-alone list</a> only if there are reliable sources dealing with the list as a topic, as with <a href="/wiki/Baird%27s_Manual_of_American_College_Fraternities" title="Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities">Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities</a> supporting <a href="/wiki/List_of_Phi_Kappa_Psi_chapters_and_colonies" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Phi Kappa Psi chapters and colonies">List of Phi Kappa Psi chapters and colonies</a>. If an embedded list is too large, but is not notable enough for a stand-alone list, then <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Handling_trivia#Recommendations_for_handling_trivia" title="Wikipedia:Handling trivia">consider trimming</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Schools" data-mw-thread-id="h-Schools-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Schools-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"></span>Schools<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Schools-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Schools"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:NSCHOOL"></span><span id="WP:NHSCHOOL"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NSCHOOL&redirect=no">WP:NSCHOOL</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NHSCHOOL&redirect=no">WP:NHSCHOOL</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>All universities, colleges and schools, including high schools, middle schools, primary (elementary) schools, and schools that only provide a support to mainstream education must satisfy either the notability guidelines for organizations (i.e., this page) or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GNG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GNG">the general notability guideline</a>. </p><p>For-profit educational organizations and institutions are considered <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:COMMERCIAL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:COMMERCIAL">commercial organizations</a> and must satisfy those criteria. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1033199720"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><span role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable crossreference selfref">(See also <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SCHOOLOUTCOMES" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SCHOOLOUTCOMES">WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES</a>.)</span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religious_organizations" data-mw-thread-id="h-Religious_organizations-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Religious_organizations-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"></span><span class="anchor" id="Churches"></span>Religious organizations<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Religious_organizations-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Religious organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:NRELORG"></span><span id="WP:NCHURCH"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NRELORG&redirect=no">WP:NRELORG</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NCHURCH&redirect=no">WP:NCHURCH</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Individual religious organizations (whether called congregations, synods, synagogues, temples, churches, etc.) must meet the notability guideline for organizations and companies or the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GNG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GNG">general notability guideline</a> or both. The fact that a religious building is listed on a major historic register such as the <a href="/wiki/National_Heritage_List_for_England" title="National Heritage List for England">National Heritage List for England</a> or the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a> in the U.S. does not necessarily mean that the religious organization that owns or meets in the building is notable. However, it is possible that both the building and the institution are notable independently from each other – in which case, a combined article about the institution and the building is an option. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Commercial_organizations" data-mw-thread-id="h-Commercial_organizations-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Commercial_organizations-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"></span>Commercial organizations<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Commercial_organizations-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Commercial organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:COMMERCIAL"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:COMMERCIAL&redirect=no">WP:COMMERCIAL</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"WP:COMMERICAL" redirects here. For the rule on using content released under a non-commercial license, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NONCOM" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NONCOM">WP:NONCOM</a>.</div> <p>Some commercial organizations meet Wikipedia notability guidelines but care must be taken in determining whether they are truly notable and whether the article is an attempt to use Wikipedia for free advertising. Wikipedia editors should not create articles on commercial organizations for the purpose of overtly or covertly advertising a company. Please see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTADVERTISING" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTADVERTISING">WP:NOTADVERTISING</a>. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Publicly_traded_corporations" data-mw-thread-id="h-Publicly_traded_corporations-Commercial_organizations"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Publicly_traded_corporations-Commercial_organizations"></span>Publicly traded corporations<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Publicly_traded_corporations-Commercial_organizations"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Publicly traded corporations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:LISTED"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:LISTED&redirect=no">WP:LISTED</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>There has been considerable discussion over time whether publicly traded corporations, or at least publicly traded corporations listed on major stock exchanges such as the <a href="/wiki/NYSE" class="mw-redirect" title="NYSE">NYSE</a> and other comparable international stock exchanges, are inherently notable. Consensus has been that notability is not automatic in this (or any other) case. However, sufficient independent sources almost always exist for such companies, so that notability can be established using the primary criterion discussed above. Examples of such sources include independent press coverage and analyst reports. Accordingly, article authors should make sure to seek out such coverage and add references to such articles to properly establish notability. </p><p>Editors coming across an article on such a company without such references are encouraged to search (or request that others search) prior to nominating for deletion, given the very high (but not <i>certain</i>) likelihood that a publicly traded company is actually notable according to the primary criterion. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Chains_and_franchises" data-mw-thread-id="h-Chains_and_franchises-Commercial_organizations"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Chains_and_franchises-Commercial_organizations"></span>Chains and franchises<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Chains_and_franchises-Commercial_organizations"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Chains and franchises"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:CHAIN"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CHAIN&redirect=no">WP:CHAIN</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Many companies have chains of local stores or franchises that are individually pretty much interchangeable—for instance, a local <a href="/wiki/McDonald%27s" title="McDonald's">McDonald's</a>. Since there is generally very little to say about individual stores or franchises that is not true for the chain in general, Wikipedia should not have articles on such individual stores. In rare cases, an individual location will have architectural peculiarities that makes it notable, such as the <a href="/wiki/Shell_Service_Station_(Winston-Salem,_North_Carolina)" title="Shell Service Station (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)">Shell Service Station (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)</a>; however, a series of articles on every single Wal-Mart in China would not be informative. An exception can be made if a major event occurred at a local store; however, this would most likely be created under an article name that describes the <i>event</i>, not the location (see <a href="/wiki/San_Ysidro_McDonald%27s_massacre" title="San Ysidro McDonald's massacre">San Ysidro McDonald's massacre</a> for an example). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Products_and_services" data-mw-thread-id="h-Products_and_services-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Products_and_services-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"></span>Products and services<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Products_and_services-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Products and services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:PRODUCT"></span><span id="WP:PRODUCTS"></span><span id="WP:NPRODUCT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PRODUCT&redirect=no">WP:PRODUCT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PRODUCTS&redirect=no">WP:PRODUCTS</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NPRODUCT&redirect=no">WP:NPRODUCT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability#Articles_not_satisfying_the_notability_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Notability">Wikipedia:Notability § Articles not satisfying the notability guidelines</a></div> <p>A product or service is appropriate for its own Wikipedia article when it has received sustained coverage in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable independent secondary sources</a>. In cases where a company is mainly known for a single series of products or services, it is usually better to cover the company and its products/services in the same article. This article can be the name of the company or the name of its product, depending on which is the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PRIMARYTOPIC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PRIMARYTOPIC">primary topic</a>. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:AVOIDSPLIT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:AVOIDSPLIT">Avoid splitting</a> the company and its products into separate articles, unless both have so much coverage in reliable secondary sources as to make a single article unwieldy. </p><p>For <a href="/wiki/Product_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Product line">product lines</a> that are produced and/or marketed by the same company, avoid creating multiple stubs about each individual product (e.g., <span style="color: red;">PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator, Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator, R-36 Explosive Space Modulator</span>, etc.) especially if there is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PERMASTUB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PERMASTUB">no realistic hope of expansion</a>. The relationship between a continuous line of products should be discussed within a single article. </p><p>If a non-notable product or service has its own article, be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:BOLD">bold</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Merge" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Merge">merge</a> it into an article with a broader scope (for example, an article about the type of product) or follow one of the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DELETE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DELETE">deletion processes</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Transport_infrastructure" data-mw-thread-id="h-Transport_infrastructure-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Transport_infrastructure-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"></span>Transport infrastructure<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Transport_infrastructure-Alternate_criteria_for_specific_types_of_organizations"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Transport infrastructure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This guideline does not apply to transport infrastructure such as railway lines and stations, airports, and toll roads, even when the company running the installation has that task as its single purpose. Other notability guidelines such as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:GNG" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:GNG">General notability guidelines</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NGEO" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NGEO">Notability (geographic features)</a> continue to apply. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="If_it's_not_notable" data-mw-thread-id="h-If_it's_not_notable"><span id="If_it.27s_not_notable"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-If_it's_not_notable"></span>If it's not notable<span data-mw-comment-end="h-If_it's_not_notable"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: If it's not notable"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAILN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:FAILN">WP:FAILN</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:FAILORG"></span><span id="WP:FAILCORP"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:FAILORG&redirect=no">WP:FAILORG</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:FAILCORP&redirect=no">WP:FAILCORP</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Although an organization that fails to meet the criteria of this guideline should not have a separate article, information about the organization may nevertheless be included in other ways in Wikipedia provided that certain conditions are met. </p><p>Content about the organization can be added into relevant articles if it: </p> <ul><li>has the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DUE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DUE">appropriate level</a> of detail and significance for that article;</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTADVERT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTADVERT">avoids self-promotion</a>; and</li> <li>only includes information that can be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verfiability" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Verfiability">verified</a> through <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Independent_sources" title="Wikipedia:Independent sources">independent sources</a>.</li></ul> <p>For organizations local to a city, town, or county, content conforming to the above criteria may be added to articles for that locale. For example, a business that is significant to the history or economy of a small town might be described in the <i>History</i> or <i>Economy</i> section of the small town. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="See_also" data-mw-thread-id="h-See_also"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-See_also"></span>See also<span data-mw-comment-end="h-See_also"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(companies)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies)">Wikipedia:Naming conventions (companies)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Autobiography" title="Wikipedia:Autobiography">Wikipedia:Autobiography</a> (for companies that are creating articles about themselves)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Business" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Business">Wikipedia:FAQ/Business</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:LISTCOMPANY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LISTCOMPANY">WP:LISTCOMPANY</a>, style guideline for lists of companies</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NBUSINESSPERSON" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NBUSINESSPERSON">WP:NBUSINESSPERSON</a>, on notability of business people</li></ul> <p><b>Essays:</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_here_to_tell_the_world_about_your_noble_cause" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause">Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:When_your_boss_tells_you_to_edit_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:When your boss tells you to edit Wikipedia">Wikipedia:When your boss tells you to edit Wikipedia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Stern_warning_about_promotion" title="Wikipedia:Stern warning about promotion">Wikipedia:Stern warning about promotion</a> ‎</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_LinkedIn" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not LinkedIn">Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not LinkedIn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_Crunchbase" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not Crunchbase">Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not Crunchbase</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Places_of_local_interest" title="Wikipedia:Places of local interest">Wikipedia:Places of local interest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Run-of-the-mill" title="Wikipedia:Run-of-the-mill">Wikipedia:Run-of-the-mill</a>, on the non-notability of run-of-the-mill organizations and routine media coverage</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Businesses_with_a_single_location" title="Wikipedia:Businesses with a single location">Wikipedia:Businesses with a single location</a>, and what to be aware of when creating an article on one</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Every_snowflake_is_unique" title="Wikipedia:Every snowflake is unique">Wikipedia:Every snowflake is unique</a>, on the notability provided by professional and reliable critical reviews</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:MILUNIT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:MILUNIT">WP:MILUNIT</a>, WikiProject Military History essay on notability of units and formations</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:B2B" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:B2B">WP:B2B</a>, on notability for Internet related, computing, and services businesses</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Notes" data-mw-thread-id="h-Notes"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Notes"></span>Notes<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Notes"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Notability_(organizations_and_companies)&action=edit&section=34" 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title="Wikipedia:NRVE">normal value of providing evidence</a> that independent sources discuss the subject.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A feature story is usually a longer article where the writer has researched and interviewed to tell a factual story about a person, place, event, idea, or issue. 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