User:Nurg/Notability (periodicals)

This page gives some rough guidelines intended to be used by Wikipedia editors to decide whether a periodical should or should not have an article on Wikipedia. While satisfying these notability guidelines generally indicates a periodical warrants an article, failing to satisfy them is not a criterion for speedy deletion.

These guidelines may be considered a specialized version of Notability, applied to periodicals, reflecting the following core Wikipedia policies:
 * Wikipedia articles must not be vehicles for advertisement
 * Attribution
 * No original research
 * Wikipedia is not a soapbox
 * Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
 * Wikipedia is not a crystal ball

Claims of notability must adhere to Wikipedia's policy on attribution; it is not enough to simply assert that a periodical meets a criterion without substantiating that claim with reliable sources.

"Notability" as used herein is not a reflection of a periodical's worth. A periodical may be a peer-reviewed academic journal, while still not being notable enough to ensure sufficient verifiable source material exists to create an article in an encyclopedia.

Coverage notes
The criteria set forth below also apply to periodicals in electronic form, such as electronic journals. However, the notability of electronic periodicals should also be evaluated using the notability criteria for web-specific content.

Criteria
A periodical is generally notable if it verifiably meets through reliable sources, one or more of the following criteria:
 * 1) The periodical has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial published works whose sources are independent of the periodical itself, with at least some of these works serving a general audience. This includes published works in all forms, such as other periodical articles, books, television documentaries and reviews. Some of these works should contain sufficient critical commentary to allow the article to grow past a simple description of the periodical.
 * 2) * The immediately preceding criterion excludes media re-prints of press releases, flap copy, or other publications where the editors, its publisher, agent, or other self-interested parties advertise or speak about the periodical.
 * 3) The periodical has won a well-known and independent award or has been nominated for such an award in multiple years.

Derivative articles
It is a general consensus on Wikipedia that articles should not be split and split again into ever more minutiae of detail treatment, with each split normally lowering the level of notability. In the case of a periodical published by a learned society or the like, where the periodical does not fit the established criteria for notability, or if the periodical is notable but the publisher has an article in Wikipedia, it may be better to feature material about the periodical in the publisher's article, rather than creating a separate article for that periodical.