User talk:Mattstrass4

Welcome!
Hi! I saw your post at Talk:Justice Democrats and noticed that you hadn't yet been welcomed. The template above provides links to information about Wikipedia policies and conventions, as well as ways/places to ask for help, but I'm going to highlight points arising from the article and your post about it, since it's been nominated for speedy deletion and is now at AfD. Here is a summary of what is required for a new page. Wikipedia defines "notability" in a specific way: here, it doesn't mean "popularity" or "interest" (not even that people may be looking up the topic; because we are an encyclopedia, a tertiary reference work, we define it in almost all cases in terms of others having written (or made news videos, etc.) about the topic. And only reliable sources count in determining that. So the Washington Post reference is the best one on the page, the only one that indisputably counts in establishing notability. The Wired reference is borderline. It looks to me as if the other sources are either primary - the group itself - derived from its own material, or on less than reliable blog/opinion sites. You need to cite mainstream news coverage to demonstrate notability. (It also doesn't help notability that known people are associated with it, counter-intuitive though that may seem; at best that would make it something that might be mentioned in articles about those people.) I hope this helps you figure out what the article needs, and what to refer to if you post at the AfD. Yngvadottir (talk) 06:16, 25 January 2017 (UTC)