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This page documents an English Misplaced Pages notability criteria. Editors should generally follow it, though exceptions may apply. Substantive edits to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on this guideline's talk page.

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This page provides rough guidelines for Misplaced Pages editors to decide if any form of web-specific content -- content of a website or the specific website itself -- should have an article on Misplaced Pages. Any content which is distributed solely on the internet is considered web content, which includes, but is not limited to, webcomics, podcasts, blogs, Internet forums, online magazines and other media, web portals and web hosts.

Explicitly and by formal policy, Misplaced Pages is neither a vehicle for propaganda and advertising. nor is it a web directory. Articles which are advertisements or merely include an external link and a brief description of its contents are either deleted or cleaned up to adhere to the neutral point of view.

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion contains a listing of articles for deletion where editors apply the criteria outlined below.

Criteria

Web-specific content is notable if it meets any one of the following criteria:

1. The content has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent from the site.
   • This criterion includes published works in all forms, such as newspaper and magazine articles, books, television documentaries, and published reports by consumer watchdog organizations. except for the following:
     • Media re-prints of press releases and advertising for the content or site.
     • Trivial coverage, such as news articles that simply report the internet address, the times at which such content is updated or made available, a brief summary of the nature of the content or the publication of internet addresses and site or content descriptions in internet directories or online stores.
2. The site or content has won a well known and independent award, either from a publication or organization.
   • Being nominated for an award in multiple years is considered an indicator of notability.
3. The content is distributed via a site which is both well known and independent of the creators, either through an online newspaper or magazine, an online publisher, or an online broadcaster.

The article itself must provide verfication that its subject meets one of these criteria via inlined links or a Reference, Notes, or External link section. Even if an entire site meets the notability criteria, its components -- forums, articles, sections -- may not be considered notable or deserving of their own separate article.

See also

• Misplaced Pages:List of policies
• Misplaced Pages:Verifiability
• Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view
• Misplaced Pages:No original research
• Misplaced Pages:Cite sources
• Misplaced Pages:Reliable sources
• Misplaced Pages:Search engine test
• Misplaced Pages:What Misplaced Pages is not

Notes

1. Content which has been packaged into material form -- CD, DVD or book-- that are primarily available for sale via the internet falls under these guidelines. If such packaging of the product, however, is widely available for sale in major brick and mortar retailers, then it should be considered a product. See Misplaced Pages:Notability (companies and corporations).
2. If websites or content that do not meet these guidelines but are linked to a topic which does merit inclusion, they may be redirected to that topic rather than be listed for deletion.
3. Discussions of websites should be incorporated (with a redirect if necessary) into an article about the parent organization, unless the domain-name of the website is the most common way of referring to the organization. yahoo.com, for example, is a redirect to Yahoo!; conversely, Drugstore.com is a standalone page.
4. Examples:
   • The webcomic When I Am King has been reviewed by The Guardian, Playboy, The Comics Journal, and Wired.
   • The blog Daily Kos has been covered by Los Angeles Times, Time, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, and The New York Times.
5. Self-promotion and product placement are not the routes to having an encyclopaedia article. The published works must be someone else writing about the company, corporation, product, or service. (See Misplaced Pages:Autobiography for the verifiability and neutrality problems that affect material where the subject of the article itself is the source of the material.) The indicator for notability is whether people independent of the topic itself have considered the content or site notable enough that they wrote and published non-trivial works on that topic.
6. Examples: (See Category:Awards)
   • Eisner Awards, Bloggies or Webby Awards.
7. Content that is distributed by independent websites will typically satisfy the first criterion; regardless, it ensures the completeness of our criteria. For example, Ricky Gervais had a podcast distributed by The Guardian, which is considered nontrivial, but hosting content on well known sites as GeoCities and Newgrounds are considered trivial.

• Misplaced Pages notability criterias