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The existence of a wikipedia page is a very poor way of adjudicating notability. Especially since being notable is one of the requirements for inclusion. http

• chc 16y ago
  Assuming Wikipedia actually performs this duty, that makes it a good way to answer the question of notability (as long as the investigating party is not an agent of Wikipedia, which creates an infinite recursion). If Wikipedia only runs notable things, you use Wikipedia to prescreen notability for you.
  • cperciva 16y ago
    Theoretically being in Wikipedia implies notability; but not being in Wikipedia does not imply non-notability, only that nobody got around to creating a page yet.
• silentbicycle 16y ago
  Which is why we have pages like "List of recurring characters from Sonic the Hedgehog", naturally - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_from_Sonic_the_Hedgehog_%28games%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recurring_characters_fr... . At best, wikipedia editors may collect evidence for notability, but neither presence nor absence of a wikipedia page alone makes a strong case.
  • shrughes 16y ago
    Notability is why we do have a page for them, instead of a page for each of them.