Ikwipedia:Notability: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 11:09, 20 November 2024

For a topic to have an article, it must be both notable and have acceptable sources that can be cited. This roughly mirrors Wikipedia's policy in that if there are no acceptable sources for a subject, there should not be an article on it. However, this is a far less frequent bar to creating articles because of the broad range of allowed sources.

Inherent notability of hypothesis-adjacent topics

Certain topics are so paradigm-shifting that they are inherently notable, even if they have insufficient reliable-source coverage to have a Wikipedia page. Such topics include:

Paranormal phenomena: people, places, events, things, entities, and concepts; evidence of the existence of non-human intelligent beings, etc.

Speculative concepts: exotic technologies, people, places, events, things, entities, etc. not proven to exist

Major wrongdoing of public concern: conspiracy theories based on testimonial accounts; alleged systemic deceptions; etc.

A mere (testimonial) claim alluding to the existence or validity of one or more of these topics warrants documentation of the topic(s), regardless of whether it can be verified by a particular standard of evidence. Documenting these topics in an encyclopedic way synthesizes the available information about them and shows how they interrelate, which helps to provide a more clear understanding of a coherent framework that accounts for them all, if such a framework exists.

Limitations

This permissive notability standard does not necessarily extend to all topics. Content which would not be found in a comparable Wikipedia article — even on an otherwise-notable subject and supported by otherwise-reliable sources, such as claims that primarily concern public figures' private lives — and which is not paradigm-shifting in the sense described is most likely not notable unless it specifically relates to the above topics.

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-Notability is a criterion for articles in Ikwipedia, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability|like in Wikipedia]. And, as in Wikipedia, if there are no acceptable sources for a subject, it is not sufficiently notable and there should not be an article on it. However, Ikwipedia has more permissive [[Ikwipedia:Acceptable sources|source guidelines]] than [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable sources|Wikipedia does]. Ikwipedia has a particular focus on paranormal phenomena (including [[aliens]]), speculative topics, and alleged major wrongdoing of public concern (i.e., conspiracy theories). This extends our scope of notable topics beyond Wikipedia's, while still including all topics that Wikipedia considers notable. Claims about many of these focus topics may lack [[Ikwipedia:Reliable sources|reliable sources]]. We [[Ikwipedia:Acceptable sources|allow questionable sources]] for these topics because it is a fundamental tenet of our philosophy that certain claims and allegations — such as claims of personal knowledge of [[grand conspiracies]] or [[human interaction with aliens]] — are inherently notable due to their potentially paradigm-shifting nature. The mere existence of such claims warrants documentation in an encyclopedia, even if they cannot be verified. This extends to related subtopics that help illustrate what the world would be like if these claims were true, supporting the [[Ikwipedia:Hypothesis of Ikwipedia|broader hypothesis of how various claims might fit together coherently]]. This permissive notability standard does not necessarily extend to other topics outside our main areas of focus. Claims that may be far-reaching but are not paradigm-shifting, or claims that primarily concern public figures' private lives (such as cosmetic surgery or sexual orientation), are not automatically considered notable unless they specifically relate to our core focus areas.
+For a topic to have an article, it must be both notable and have [[Ikwipedia:Acceptable sources|acceptable sources]] that can be cited. This roughly mirrors [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability Wikipedia's policy] in that if there are no acceptable sources for a subject, there should not be an article on it. However, this is a far less frequent bar to creating articles because of the broad range of [[Ikwipedia:Acceptable sources|allowed sources]].
+==Inherent notability of [[Ikwipedia:Hypothesis of Ikwipedia|hypothesis]]-adjacent topics==
+Certain topics are so paradigm-shifting that they are ''inherently notable'', even if they have insufficient reliable-source coverage to have a Wikipedia page. Such topics include:
+:'''Paranormal phenomena:''' people, places, events, things, entities, and concepts; evidence of the existence of [[non-human intelligent beings]], etc.
+:'''Speculative concepts:''' [[exotic technologies]], people, places, events, things, entities, etc. not proven to exist
+:'''Major wrongdoing of public concern:''' [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]] based on [[Ikwipedia:Testimonial accounts|testimonial accounts]]; alleged [[systemic-deception theory|systemic deception]]s; etc.
+A mere ([[Ikwipedia: testimonial accounts|testimonial]]) claim alluding to the existence or validity of one or more of these topics warrants documentation of the topic(s), regardless of whether it can be verified by a particular standard of evidence. Documenting these topics in an encyclopedic way synthesizes the available information about them and shows how they interrelate, which helps to provide a more clear understanding of a [[Ikwipedia:Hypothesis of Ikwipedia|coherent framework that accounts for them all, if such a framework exists]].
+==Limitations==
+This permissive notability standard does not necessarily extend to all topics. Content which would not be found in a comparable Wikipedia article — even on an otherwise-notable subject and supported by otherwise-reliable sources, such as claims that primarily concern public figures' private lives — and which is not paradigm-shifting in the sense described is most likely not notable unless it specifically relates to the above topics.