Template talk:Notability

Notability television TVSERIES is not a guideline
Notability television is an essay rather than a guideline, yet for 'Television' this template produces text stating "The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for television. General notability is the guideline that should be referred to for Television. I wonder if it is helpful to include specific categories in this template that don't have separate guidelines. Gab4gab (talk) 15:17, 22 December 2022 (UTC)


 * Agree, it's quite confusing to link to an essay from this template. The template link also goes directly to the section about "Television pilots, future series or seasons, and unreleased series", even though somebody who added the template probably expected it to go to a general page about TV episodes, series, films, etc. Dreamyshade (talk) 02:52, 27 April 2023 (UTC)

Edit request
Please remove the custom output for the "Television" input to the first parameter – it links to an essay when the correct destination should be GNG. Tollens (talk) 00:24, 19 November 2023 (UTC)


 * .  P.I. Ellsworth &thinsp;, ed.  put'er there 20:54, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Would it perhaps be better to leave the option out altogether rather than just relinking it? The template still seems to imply there is a separate notability guideline for television when there is not. If the option was simply removed I believe instances of the template using the parameter would still work – they would just fall back on GNG. Tollens (talk) 21:04, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Understand your concerns, editor, and had thought about that. Came to the conclusion that GNG is the general guideline for all subjects, to include TV, so would rather leave it as it is to perhaps stimulate the completion of an actual specific guideline for TV.  P.I. Ellsworth &thinsp;, ed.  put'er there 21:17, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Sure, that makes sense to me. Thanks! Tollens (talk) 21:19, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

"Template:Notable" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Notable&redirect=no Template:Notable] has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached. ~ UN6892  tc 14:16, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

Technical; category and displayed guideline; GNG/SNG
Hello, A discussion on my TP has led Rosguill to suggest a "change to the template's coding so that the topical sorting is a separate parameter from the control over the guideline advice that gets displayed." For example, if I want a page to appear in the category Category:Film articles with topics of unclear notability but only want the message on the page to be the standard "The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline." (and not (or not only, at least) "Wikipedia's notability guideline for films") displayed (and the page categorised also in the general category for topics of unclear notability, I suppose), is there a simple way to do it? (if no one objects to the idea, that is). Thanks.- My, oh my! (Mushy Yank)  14:53, 7 March 2024 (UTC) (, if I made a mistake in the way I presented your suggestion, feel free to change/delete/add and clarify as you wish; and consider I support whatever you think is best).

NSOFT
Could support for WP:NSOFT be added to this template? jlwoodwa (talk) 19:54, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
 * That is still an essay, so doesn't have sufficient support to include here yet. — M asem (t) 19:59, 29 April 2024 (UTC)