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Usage
[edit]When to use
[edit]Add this template to the top of any page whose article subject is, in your judgment, reasonably likely to be non-notable (not the sort of subject that Wikipedia ought to have a separate article about). When an article is certainly, hopelessly non-notable, then you should nominate it for proposed deletion or take it to Articles for deletion instead.
Deletion is not clean up. Do not use this tag merely because the page requires significant work. Notability requires only that appropriate sources have been published about the subject. It does not require that any editor has already named these sources, followed the neutral, encyclopedic style, or otherwise written a good article.
Do not place this message on an article that has already survived a discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion as "keep". This is not a badge of shame to show your disagreement with the AFD outcome.
How to use
[edit]Listed below are two examples of usage:
{{Notability|date=June 2025}}{{Notability|Products|date=June 2025}}if a specific Notability guideline is wanted.
In the second example "Products" refers to products and services. The parameter can be changed to any of the options in the list below; for example: {{notability|academics|date=June 2025}}. Note: Insert the actual month and year that you place the template on the page. Do not use the automatic {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}} templates.
This template will add the article to Category:All articles with topics of unclear notability and Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability from June 2025, both hidden categories.
Removing this tag
[edit]If you find an article that is tagged as having notability concerns, and you are certain that enough in-depth, independent sources have been published about the subject to overcome any notability issues, then you may remove this tag. It is highly desirable, but not technically required, for you to add a list of good sources to the article or its talk page, so that other editors will know about the existence of these sources.
If the template is re-added, please do not edit war over it. Questions of notability can be resolved through discussion or through Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. If the article exists within the scope of a specific WikiProject it may be beneficial to invite feedback from the group.
Parameters
[edit]There is one positional parameter, and three named parameters:
|1=– a keyword, like 'academic' or 'sports', that may be used to link to a subject-specific Notability guideline (details below). Default: the generic guideline (WP:Notability).|date=– month name and year; e.g. June 2025 (no default)|find=– search keywords for {{find sources}} param 1 (double-quoted search); use|find=noneto suppress the listing. Default: search with the page title as search value.|find2=– search keywords for {{find sources}} param 2 (unquoted search). Alias:unquoted. See below for details.
Positional param 1 (specific guideline)
[edit]Providing no value for param 1 will link to the generic notability guidelines. An optional argument renders the message more specific. Specific options include:
Otherwise the main general notability guideline article is referenced.
Date
[edit]The |date= parameter is used to indicate when the template was added to a page. An example of its usage is {{Notability|date=June 2025}}. Adding this parameter sorts the article into monthly subcategories of Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability (or of subcategories based on positional param 1), rather than adding it to the category itself, allowing the oldest problems to be identified and dealt with first. Passing this parameter also enables monthly cleanup categorization. If the date parameter is omitted, a bot will add it later.
Find
[edit]There are two 'find' parameters available to control the presentation and operation of the {{find sources}} links optionally displayed by the {{Notability}} template. By default, the template displays {{find sources}} with a quoted search query equivalent to the exact article title. Sometimes, especially if the article has a long, descriptive title, or if it includes parenthetical disambiguation terms, this may not give useful results. The find parameters can be used to provide the search keywords of your choice to the {{find sources}} links. Use:
|find=to specify keywords for an exact search (double-quoted query); this corresponds to {{find sources}} positional param|1.|find2=to specify keywords for an unquoted search; this corresponds to {{find sources}} param|2. The alias|unquoted=may be used instead.
The value "none" may be passed to 'find' (|find=none) to suppress display of find sources links. (Note that specifying |find=none and a nonempty value for |find2= is not a valid combination.)
Template data
[edit]TemplateData for Notability
This template adds notice that the article may not meet a notability guideline, either in general or one in particular.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guideline | 1 | An identifier for an applicable notability guideline: Academics, Prof, Astro, Bio, Biography, Biographies, Book, Books, Companies, Corp, Institutions, Org, Organisations, Organizations, Event, Events, Film, Films, Movie, Movies, Geo, Geographic, Geography, Place, Places, List, Lists, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Products, Species, Sport, Sports, or Web
| String | suggested |
| Month and year | date | The month and year that this notability concern was placed
| String | suggested |
| Find sources keywords | find | Search string for 'find sources' template. May be one or more words. Set to value 'none' to suppress 'find sources' output.
| String | optional |
| Unquoted search keywords | find2 unquoted | Unquoted search keywords for 'find sources' template. May be one or more words. Set to value 'none' to suppress 'find sources' output.
| String | optional |
See also
[edit]- {{Famous}}
- {{uw-badlistentry}} – re: non-notable additions
Tracking categories
[edit]Redirects
[edit]- {{Cleanup-notability}}
- {{Nn}}
- {{NN}}
- {{Nonnotable}}
- {{Significance}}