Wikipedia:Historical archive/Policy/Notability/List of ways to verify notability of articles

List of ways to verify notability of articles is a list of tools that can help verifying notability of article topics.

See also general and specific notability topics listed in the template on the right, for:
 * The interpretation of the notability concept in the Wikipedia context
 * Defined and suggested thresholds for notability in several areas.

Entertainment

 * Internet Movie Database
 * All Music Guide

Websites

 * Note: These methods can often disprove a website's notability, but they do not neccesarily measure the degree of notability.
 * Alexa (but note there are problems with this)
 * backlink

Geographic locations

 * Mapquest
 * Google Maps

Other material

 * search engine test
 * Yahoo

Library research
Articles for deletion reviews, although frequently limited to Internet resources, must remain aware that a large amount of significant published material has not been posted on the Internet. This is particularly true of materials published in languages other than English and of maps, gazetteers and such. In such cases notability may be established through review of such resources.