WikiPartner:Inclusion guidelines

WikiPartner aims to document people, companies, organizations, places, technologies, products, events, and other subjects that have meaningful public relevance and can be described using reliable information.

These guidelines help editors decide whether a subject should have a standalone WikiPartner article.

Meeting these guidelines does not guarantee publication. WikiPartner may consider the quality of available sources, public relevance, verifiability, neutrality, and the overall value of the proposed article.

Core requirements

A subject should normally meet all of the following requirements.

Verifiable identity

The subject must be clearly identifiable.

There should be enough reliable information to confirm that the person, company, organization, place, product, technology, event, or other subject actually exists.

Reliable information

Important facts about the subject must be verifiable through reliable sources.

Sources may include:

• Established news publications
• Newspapers and magazines
• Books
• Academic publications
• Government records
• Regulatory databases
• Recognized industry publications
• Reputable professional publications
• Other reliable independent sources

Official websites and verified first-party materials may be used for basic factual information, but they should not normally be the only basis for an article.

See Source guidelines for more information.

Meaningful public relevance

A subject should have some significance beyond purely private, personal, or promotional interests.

Public relevance may be demonstrated through factors such as:

• Independent media coverage
• Professional or industry recognition
• Significant business activity
• Public office or public responsibility
• Academic, scientific, technical, cultural, or creative contributions
• Recognized products, services, or technologies
• Documented historical importance
• Significant involvement in notable events
• Meaningful impact within a community, industry, profession, or geographic area

No single factor automatically guarantees inclusion.

Independent coverage

Independent coverage is an important indicator that a subject can support a neutral encyclopedia article.

A subject is generally stronger for inclusion when multiple reliable sources discuss it independently and in meaningful detail.

Brief mentions, directory listings, database entries, social media profiles, advertisements, press-release copies, and automatically generated pages normally provide limited evidence on their own.

However, these sources may still be useful for verifying specific factual details.

People

A person may qualify for a standalone article when reliable sources establish meaningful public relevance.

Examples may include people who have:

• Received significant independent coverage
• Held an important public, professional, academic, business, cultural, or organizational role
• Made a documented contribution to a field
• Received recognized awards or distinctions
• Founded or led a significant organization or company
• Produced work that has received substantial public or professional attention
• Played a meaningful role in documented events

Having a job title, social media following, personal website, or business ownership alone does not automatically qualify a person for inclusion.

Companies and organizations

A company or organization may qualify when reliable information demonstrates meaningful activity, recognition, influence, or public relevance.

Relevant indicators may include:

• Significant independent media coverage
• Established operations or market presence
• Recognized products or services
• Industry significance
• Documented funding, growth, acquisitions, or major partnerships
• Significant social, economic, technological, or cultural impact
• Government or regulatory recognition
• Important historical relevance

A registered company does not automatically qualify for an article solely because it legally exists.

Places

Places may include cities, towns, villages, districts, landmarks, buildings, natural locations, institutions, and other geographically identifiable subjects.

A place may qualify when it has sufficient reliable information and geographic, historical, cultural, administrative, environmental, or public significance.

Technologies and products

A technology, software product, platform, device, invention, or other product may qualify when it has meaningful independent documentation or recognized significance.

Relevant factors may include:

• Independent reviews or coverage
• Significant adoption
• Industry impact
• Technical importance
• Historical importance
• Documented innovation
• Use by notable organizations or communities

A product announcement or company marketing page alone is normally insufficient.

Events

An event may qualify when it has meaningful historical, cultural, political, scientific, business, sporting, social, or public significance and can be documented through reliable sources.

Routine private events, ordinary promotional events, and events supported only by first-party material may not justify standalone coverage.

What normally does not qualify

The following usually do not justify a standalone article by themselves:

• Personal promotion
• Advertising campaigns
• Self-written biographies without independent sourcing
• Newly created companies with little verifiable public information
• Social media popularity alone
• A large follower count alone
• Routine product launches
• Press releases without additional independent coverage
• Directory listings
• Business registration records alone
• Awards with little independent recognition
• Unverified claims of achievement
• Subjects created mainly for search-engine visibility or reputation management

These factors may contribute supporting information, but they should not be treated as automatic qualification.

Paid or sponsored relationships

Payment, sponsorship, advertising, partnerships, public-relations activity, or commercial relationships do not automatically qualify or disqualify a subject.

Editorial inclusion decisions should be based on the subject itself and the available evidence.

Commercial arrangements must not override WikiPartner's editorial standards.

See Editorial policy.

Existing coverage elsewhere

A subject does not need to have a Wikipedia article or an article in another encyclopedia before it can be included on WikiPartner.

Likewise, having an article elsewhere does not automatically guarantee inclusion.

WikiPartner makes its own editorial decisions based on its guidelines and available sources.

Borderline cases

Some subjects may not clearly meet or fail the guidelines.

In such cases, editors should consider:

• The number and quality of reliable sources
• How much independent coverage exists
• Whether a neutral article can realistically be written
• Whether the subject has meaningful public relevance
• Whether claims can be independently verified
• Whether a standalone article would provide useful encyclopedic information

When evidence is limited, additional research may be appropriate before a final decision.

Article suggestions

Anyone may suggest an article.

A suggestion does not guarantee acceptance or publication.

Suggestions may be marked:

• Pending review
• Under review
• Approved
• Declined

Approval means the subject may proceed toward article creation. It does not mean that every submitted claim or source has been accepted.

Editorial discretion

These guidelines are intended to support consistent decisions, but they cannot cover every possible subject.

WikiPartner reviewers may exercise reasonable editorial judgment in unusual or complex cases, provided decisions remain consistent with the editorial policy and source guidelines.

Related policies

• Editorial policy
• Source guidelines
• Suggest an article
• Corrections and complaints