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Any topic for which information from [[Ikwipedia:Acceptable sources|acceptable sources]] can have an article. This roughly mirrors [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability Wikipedia's policy] in that if there are no acceptable sources for a subject, except that the range of allowed sources is more broad than the range of [[Ikwipedia:reliable sources|reliable sources]].
Any topic for which information from [[Ikwipedia:Acceptable sources|acceptable sources]] can have an article. This roughly mirrors [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability Wikipedia's policy] in that if there are no allowed sources for a subject, there should not be an article for it. Since the range of allowed sources on Ikwipedia is more broad than the range of [[Ikwipedia:reliable sources|reliable sources]], Ikwipedia's scope of coverage, in theory, includes that of Wikipedia and more.


==Inherent notability of topics==
==Inherent notability of topics==

Revision as of 06:29, 29 December 2024

Any topic for which information from acceptable sources can have an article. This roughly mirrors Wikipedia's policy in that if there are no allowed sources for a subject, there should not be an article for it. Since the range of allowed sources on Ikwipedia is more broad than the range of reliable sources, Ikwipedia's scope of coverage, in theory, includes that of Wikipedia and more.

Inherent notability of 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; alleged systemic deceptions; etc.

To affirmatively counteract the hypothesized tendency of these topics to be concealed and actively suppressed, a mere claim alluding to the existence or validity of one or more of these topics (based on evidence and/or testimonial accounts) 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 coherent understanding that accounts for them all, if that is possible.

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.