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Some Wikipedians hold that articles need to be of sufficient importance to be included in Wikipedia. This essay attempts to give an insight in what such term means in Wikipedia context. As such, it is a companion to and clarification of several policies and guidelines:
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 vote where he explains why the Wikipedia:Verifiability policy is sufficient. However, verifiable articles continue to be submitted to Articles for Deletion.
For individual examples of what some people have previously thought should be included in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Precedents.
An article is "important" enough to be included in Wikipedia if any one of the following is true:
If an article is "important" according to the above then there's no reason to delete it on the basis of it being:
Note that notwithstanding these criteria, other Wikipedia deletion policy may still apply to an article.