اس صفحہ میں اردو ویکیپیڈیا معروفیت درج ہے جسے عموماً معیاری تسلیم کیا جاتا ہے، گرچہ اسے معمولی فہم و فراست سے بآسانی سمجھا جا سکتا ہے تاہم تمام صارفین کو اس کی پیروی کی کوشش کرنی چاہیے، ہاں بعض مواقع پر استثنا بھی دیا جا سکتا ہے۔ اس صفحے پر کوئی بھی اہم ترمیم کرنے کے لیے اتفاق رائے ہونا ضروری ہے۔ اگر آپ کو یقین نہ ہو تو پہلے تبادلۂ خیال صفحہ پر مشورہ کر لیں۔
یہ صفحہ ایک نظر میں: A book is notable, and generally merits an article, if it verifiably meets through reliable sources, one or more of the following criteria:
The book has been the subject[1] of two or more non-trivial[2] published works appearing in sources that are independent of the book itself.[3] This includes published works in all forms, such as newspaper articles, other books, television documentaries and reviews. This excludes media re-prints of press releases, flap copy, or other publications where the author, its publisher, agent, or other self-interested parties advertise or speak about the book.[4]
The book has been considered by reliable sources to have made a significant contribution to a notable or significant motion picture, or other art form, or event or political or religious movement.
The book is, or has been, the subject of instruction at two or more schools,[5] colleges, universities or post-graduate programs in any particular country.[6]
The book's author is so historically significant that any of the author's written works may be considered notable. This does not simply mean that the book's author is notable by Wikipedia's standards; rather, the book's author is of exceptional significance and the author's life and body of written work would be a common subject of academic study.
↑The "subject" of a work means non-trivial treatment and excludes mere mention of the book, its author or of its publication, price listings and other nonsubstantive detail treatment.
↑"Non-trivial" excludes personal websites, blogs, bulletin boards, Usenet posts, wikis and other media that are not themselves reliable. An analysis of the manner of treatment is crucial as well; Slashdot.org for example is reliable, but postings to that site by members of the public on a subject do not share the site's imprimatur. Be careful to check that the author, publisher, agent, vendor. etc. of a particular book are in no way interested in any third party source.
↑Independent does not mean independent of the publishing industry, but only refers to those actually involved with the particular book.
↑Self-promotion and product placement are not the routes to having an encyclopedia article. The published works must be someone else writing about the book. (See Wikipedia:Autobiography for the verifiability and neutrality problems that affect material where the subject of the article itself is the source of the material). The barometer of notability is whether people independent of the subject itself (or of its author, publisher, vendor or agent) have actually considered the book notable enough that they have written and published non-trivial works that focus upon it.
↑This includes both primary and secondary schools.
↑This criterion does not include textbooks or reference books written specifically for study in educational programs, but only independent works deemed sufficiently significant to be the subject of study themselves, such as major works in philosophy, literature, or science.