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Notability

 * 1) Significant coverage - can be the main or side focus of source material. Many secondary sources are providing coverage upon it.
 * 2) Reliable - Published works in all forms of media, preferably secondary sources and meets Wikipedia standards of reliable sources.
 * 3) Sources - To establish your notability, vary your sources to more than one person or organisation. Using more than one sources is a general rule of thumb.
 * 4) Independent of the subject - Most not imply self-promotion like subject's website, advertising, autobiographies and press releases.
 * 5) Presumed - It is widely covered that it warrants its own Wikipedia article, rather than just a section within a Wikipedia article.

In a nutshell, a notable topic is those that has received significant attention from independent sources to support a claim of notability.

Significant coverage
Unless stated otherwise, all Japanese sources are automatically to be classified under "machine translated courtesy of Google". The section is being rehashed for reliability standards set by WikiProject's anime and manga.


 * Animate Times - lists new releases, broadcast dates, and interviews from the anime industry and is owned by Animate. Frequently cited by Anime News Network.
 * Anime News Network - Anime news site with extensive release information and nearly 1,000 anime and manga review.
 * Anime Newtype Channel - Lists episode broadcasts dates, summaries, directors, and writers of currently airing series. Be advised that information is updated monthly and is not permanent. Therefore references should be archived using WebCite or similar archival website.
 * Behind the Voice Actors - An online database of voice actor credits in anime, cartoons, and video games. This can be used to shortcut verify the roles as long as the credit itself has a green check-mark that leads to an on-screen capture of the closing credit that confirms the role.
 * cho-animedia - Website for the publisher of multiple magazines relating to anime and mange for several decades.
 * Eiga - Articles and releases about films, including anime. Ratings and reviews are user-submitted and should not be used.
 * Japan Media Arts Festival - Backed Agency for Cultural Affairs. A Grand prize is a strong evidence of notability, others prizes and recommendations are weak ones.
 * Manga Bookshelf - Manga Bookshelf is a website that focuses on the general manga industry. Several different offshoots are present which provide additional manga reviews (these are discussed elsewhere here) Many if not all of the contributors have vetted experience in the field. As with other sources, the writer should always be checked.
 * Manga Tokyo - Manga Tokyo is useful for interviews as they have done so with known people in the industry. This website is NOT VETTED for their anime reviews.
 * Media Arts Database - Created by the Japanese Ministry of Education's Agency for Cultural Affairs, the database containing broadcast/released dates of anime television and films between 1917 to September 2014 along with producers, studios, and other production information.
 * Natalie (website) - General information about the manga & anime industry including announcements and interviews. Frequently cited by Anime News Network.
 * National Diet Library Online Public Access Catalog - Online database used by the Media Arts Database as a source and can provide additional data. NDL-OPAC is also available in English by clicking on the top right box marked as such.
 * The Fandom Post - Reviews and news site. Beveridge was paneled at Anime Boston in 2014, and has been interviewed by Anime News Network.
 * THEM Anime Reviews - Anime review site for newer and older titles (going back to 1968!), which has been active for at least ten years.
 * TV Drama database - largest Japanese database for TV dramas which includes a lot of anime. The source has been published and is considered an academic resource. (RS/N discussion)
 * Youtube - Youtube content such as upcoming releases, reviews, and interviews may only be used if the channel is official, and the subject passes wikipedia's notability guidelines. On some channels a small gray check mark will appear next to the channel name, hovering your mouse over it will make the word "Verified" appear. Some official channels include: Funimation, Sentai Filmworks, and Kadokawa.
 * Myspace, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter - all of these social media sites may be used as self-published, primary sources, but only if they are verified as belonging to the notable subject. Keep in mind that Wikipedia is not a directory of the subject's web presence. The usage of Facebook is also discouraged as many of the pages require you to register to view the content, treat this like a temporary source until a better one can be found. Social media sites in general are mainly useful for upcoming releases, and possibly interviews

For profit organisations, explicitly declare their commerce status and caveats that may affect their reliability as a reliable source. Declare their affliation with subject, if available.

Sources to avoid like plague

 * Baka-Updates Manga - information is primarily user submitted and website also promotes illegal distribution of copyrighted materials.
 * Goodreads - no editorial control, very easy for anyone to review a book, occasionally copies unattributed text from Wikipedia.
 * MyAnimeList - information is primarily user submitted and website also promotes illegal distribution of copyrighted materials.
 * Wikia - User edited content.
 * Wikipedia - All language versions of Wikipedia and sites that mirror it, are not considered reliable sources for the content taken from the articles themselves. Wikipedia articles are not considered reliable unless they are backed up by reliable sources. If there are sources present on foreign Wikipedia pages, they can potentially be useful and should generally be brought over here to use in the English language articles. If you are in doubt over a foreign source then bring it over to WP:RSN for discussion.

About types of source
It is important to differentiate between types of source, notably primary, secondary and tertiary.

Primary sources are first-hand accounts of an event.

Secondary sources cite primary sources, and can be the most objective because they may add synthesis or interpretation on top of it.

Tertiary sources may combine both primary and secondary sources.

As a rule of thumb, always check writer's reliability before considering their accounts.