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Wikipedia's notability requirement is perhaps the most confusing of all of Wikipedia's core requirements and guidance. The system mostly works in practice, but is very difficult to fully understand or explain. Lack of recognition of how it actually works presents a roadblock to progress and clarification in this area. This essay seeks to fix that by summarizing how wp:notability actually works in practice with emphasis on areas which are different than some common statements.
Notability is Wikipedia's name for the "should this be allowed to be a separate article?" quality.
Rather than being truly defined in one place, wiki-notability has a defacto definition which is the end result of a complex wiki-notability ecosystem. This ecosystem consists of guidelines, established practices and values, venues and other pages and human decision making which includes weighting and combining multiple considerations. Wp:notability decisions are primarily based by applying wp:notability guidelines, but they are also influenced by other criteria.
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