Wikipedia:WikiProject Professional wrestling/Notability

This is an essay on notability. It contains the advice and/or opinions of one or more WikiProjects on how notability may be interpreted within their area of interest. This information is not a formal Wikipedia policy or guideline, as it has not been thoroughly vetted by the community.

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This page in a nutshell: A professional wrestler is presumed to be notable if the person has worked for a major professional wrestling promotion on a regular basis or won a significant championship, as listed on this page, and so is likely to have received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject.

Pofessional wrestling notability, is an essay to give some guidance on whether or not a topic related to professional wrestling, be it a person, a professional wrestling promotion, event etc. is likely to meet the general notability guideline, and thus merit an article in Wikipedia. The article must provide reliable sources showing that the subject meets the general notability guideline or the professional wrestling specific criteria set forth below. It is a specific supplement to the overall policy of Wikipedia:Notability relating to professional wrestling and in no way supersedes it.

These guidelines were created by WikiProject Professional wrestling to help assess the notability of the subjects of articles. Feel free to discuss improvements on the project talk page or the discussion area for this page (WT:PW/N).

If the article does meet the criteria set forth below, then it is likely that sufficient sources exist to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article. Failing to meet the criteria in this guideline means that notability will need to be established in other ways (e.g. the general notability guideline, or other, topic-specific, notability guidelines).

Please note that the failure to meet these criteria does not mean an article must be deleted; conversely, the meeting of any of these criteria does not mean that an article must be kept. These are merely rules of thumb which some editors choose to keep in mind when deciding whether or not to keep an article that is on articles for deletion, along with relevant policies and guidelines such as Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:Reliable sources.