Wikipedia:Notability does not degrade over time
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 | This page in a nutshell: Notability of a subject doesn't degrade over time. |
consensus may change
, notability once established and demonstrated is permanent.
If this were not the case, ancient historical subjects, who are
deletion nominations based on mistaken assumptions about the ability of notability to degrade. Notability once conferred is perpetual, unless the thresholds for notability as defined in Wikipedia:Notability
are changed or the assessment of notability was flawed.
Once sources exist they do not simply go away even if they become old, generally forgotten, superseded, or hard to find. The notability demonstrated by those sources persists.