Is Your Ancestor Wiki-Notable?

Why Wikipedia?

• 16,000,000,000 views per month
• high on search engine results
• sources of information can be included

Notability

• not the same as "important"
• written about by independent journalists and other authors
• information published in edited books or periodicals

Sources and References for Wikipedia

Acceptable:

• Books - independently edited and published
• Magazine articles - written by professional journalists
• News articles - written by professional journalists
• can be paper or online

Not acceptable:

• User-contributed websites forums, bulletin boards, Wordpress and family tree sites
• Self-published books and articles without independent fact-checking
• Material written by friends, relatives, etc.
• Personal opinions of non-experts, such as blogs, letters to the editor
• Promotional material - press releases, publishers' blurbs, upcoming event announcements, etc.
• Personal interviews, letters, emails, personal websites, social media, etc.

Criteria for people

• Wikipedia:Notability (people)
• notability not inherited from famous relatives
• Extensive published information from several acceptable sources (Edwin C. Guillet)

If your ancestor doesn't qualify

• Add information to an existing article. (e.g., Cream of Barley Mill)

• must be at least some independent published sources

• Put information on another website.

• check Cyndi's List