NOTABILITY DEFINITION FREE
If you purchased Notability before January 1, 2020, then this feature is free and you simply restore the purchase for free. Notability has a feature to convert handwriting to text but it costs an additional $2.99 (£2.99) for this feature. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. 'SNG' refers to the subject-specific guidelines listed at WP:Notability, a common abbreviation derived from 'special notability guidelines'.'Sourcing-GNG' refers to the sourcing-based criteria portion of the WP:Notability page.'WP:Notability' refers to that specific Wikipedia page.
'Wp:notability' refers to the entire wp:notability ecosystem.But, even if it gains prominence, it does not include the specifics that guidelines cover and so it should not be used directly on individual cases. Because this essay covers the whole wp:notability ecosystem, it is broader than any one guideline. It describes how it is and makes no assertion on whether or not that is how it should be. This essay intends to assist in that area by providing a framework that describes the status quo, and then reconciling and explaining the more confusing areas using that framework. This also makes evolving or clarifying the guidelines very difficult. The system mostly works, but is very difficult to fully understand or explain. This ecosystem consists of guidelines, established practices and values, venues and other pages. Rather than being truly defined in one place, wp:notability has a defacto definition which is the end result of a complex wp:notability ecosystem. Wikipedia's notability requirement is perhaps the most confusing of all core guidelines and policies. Some essays represent widespread norms others only represent minority viewpoints. This page is not an encyclopedia article, nor is it one of Wikipedia's policies or guidelines, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community. It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors.