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This page in a nutshell: While popularity alone does not guarantee
notability
, popularity may suggest the likelihood that someone will try to create a Wikipedia article about the subject matter.
Wikipedia contains many topics that are or were seen as "
notability
).
In other words,
obscurity does not guarantee the lack of notability
. However, a topic's popularity indicates the likelihood that somebody will create an article on the topic, whether or not it is notable.
An article about a seemingly popular topic can be deleted simply because the topic has little to no reliable, independent, and secondary sources. In certain cases where a topic is really popular, some users have made attempts to recreate the said article without any improvements, ignoring the red message box telling users that such an article was already deleted. What often follows is a cycle of deletions and recreations, eventually leading to
There might come a point when a topic becomes so popular that it is the subject of headlines from several reputable media outlets. At this point, there is a chance that the said topic becomes notable enough to have a permanent Wikipedia article.
