Wikipedia:What is and is not routine coverage
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This page in a nutshell: This essay encourages editors to avoid interpreting WP:ROUTINE to mean something that it doesn't. |
Editors and contributors to Wikipedia may have difficulty determining what is and is not routine coverage of people and or events.
The guideline
Conversely, there are many articles of notable events. Coverage in the media may be "routine" to the media (such as routine coverage of the
Editors should be careful in defining what is referred to as "routine" coverage, especially when determining
Examples
Sports
In the world of sports, it is true that many sporting events are routinely covered, but that does not make all coverage of a sporting event "routine" at all. Modern-day sporting events appear regularly in blogs or in local news as sports scores (sometimes called "box scores") without details. Such box scores are examples of routine coverage. Also (as in the case of the National Football League), pre-season games may produce multiple transactions and roster cuts or additions. These statistics are routinely carried in newspapers, but do little to support any notability standard for players.
However, if an article goes into detail about the event, it is not necessarily "routine" coverage. Not every sporting event earns a feature article in the press, and not every professional hopeful gains significant coverage and feature articles.
In other words:
- "routine coverage" is not a disqualification for notability.
- "routine coverage" may indeed be significant enough to surpass Wikipedia's general notability guideline.
Politics
Once every four years, the
Establishing notability for "people" vs "events"
Additionally, bear in mind that
Conclusion
Be careful not to make
See also
- Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions
- WP:ROUTINE
- Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wink Hartman AFD discussion involving several issues on this essay