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Importance
Some Wikipedians hold that articles need to be of sufficient importance to be included in Wikipedia. This policy attempts to define which ''subjects'' are suitable for Wikipedia. As such, it is an amendment and clarification of the policies What Wikipedia is not and Check your fiction. It is also a companion to the proposed policy Criteria for inclusion of biographies.
Many Wikipedians do not consider importance a necessary qualification - see the poll Wikipedia talk:Fame and importance which failed to win consensus, and especially Jimbo's note where he explains why the Wikipedia:Verifiability policy is sufficient. However, verifiable articles continue to be submitted to Votes for Deletion, so this policy offers a more exclusionary alternative.
For individual examples of what people have previously thought should be included in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Precedents.
Policy
An article is important, and deserving of inclusion in Wikipedia, unless:
#it is patent nonsense, or
#it is original research, or
#it is unverifiable, or
#it is ''unexpandable'' (it cannot ever be more than a stub, and could never be a perfect article due to its subject matter, which isn't to say that the information should not be noted elsewhere, just not as an article), or
#only a small number of people (eg. 100 people) are currently interested in the subject, or
#it does not otherwise belong in Wikipedia.
If an article is "important" according to the above (of course, this may be controversial, and can be discussed on the article's talk page, using this policy as a guideline), it should not be deleted on the basis of it being:
#insufficiently important, famous or relevant, or
#currently small or a stub.
Other relevant policies
#Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not
#m:Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia (discussion)
#Wikipedia:No original research
#Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia
#Wikipedia:Verifiability#Obscure topics (proposed policy)
#Wikipedia:Guide
Importance
''Before contributing constructive criticism here, you should be familiar with the other relevant policies.''
There was a poll on a similar policy at Wikipedia talk:Fame and importance.
Why this policy is necessary
There is widespread debate (mostly on various "votes for deletion" pages and Wikipedia talk:Fame and importance) on whether the lack of notability or importance be a legitimate reason to delete an article - in other words, what kinds of articles should exist at Wikipedia. Some think that verifiability is the only criterion for inclusion; others believe that some measure of "importance" is necessary:
From Wikipedia:Check your fiction:
"The articles on fictional characters are going out of control. Simpson, Star War, Star Trek, Harry Potter. A strict guideline is definitely a priority." Anon
"We should avoid context duplication and flooding of the article space with what many consider to be unencyclopedic fringe material." Anon
"We don't write about every fictional character. If we have more fictional characters than physicists listed it is because that is what people prefer writing about. Whether a character (fictional or otherwise) should be on their own page or page about whatever it is they are related to should probably depend on how much there is to write about them." Angela
Re taking advantage of the fact that Wiki is not paper:
:Why shouldn't there be a page for every Simpsons character, and even a table listing every episode, all neatly crosslinked and introduced by a shorter central page like the above? Why shouldn't every episode name in the list link to a separate page for each of those episodes, with links to reviews and trivia? Why shouldn't each of the 100+ poker games I describe have its own page with rules, strategy, and opinions? ''Hard disks are cheap.'' Anon
:I agree with this one completely. --Jimbo Wales"
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