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Notability is the property of being worthy of notice, having fame, or being considered to be of a high degree of interest, significance, or distinction. It also refers to the capacity to be such. Persons who are notable due to public responsibility, accomplishments, or, even, mere participation in the celebrity industry are said to have a public profile.
Emily Artinian compares this passage with Borges' The Library of Babel.Emily Artinian " Wikipedia Definitions of the Artist’s Book: a Neutral Point of View?" (), Traditional and Emerging Formats of the Book Conference, University of the West of England, 9 July 2009, p.5
Persons wanting to delete an article on the grounds of non-notability are called . Those not wanting to delete the article are called .
A team of computer scientists at MIT and Rutgers University has used notability at Wikipedia to create a measure of hierarchy in a directed online social network.Mangesh Gupte, Pravin Shankar, Jing Li, S. Muthukrishnan, Liviu Iftode, " Finding Hierarchy in Directed Online Social Networks" ACM 978-1-4503-0632-4/11/03.
The number of hits from a search engine has been proposed as a measure of notability; Wikipedia does not recommend the use of Google's results.T Lawrence, N Pelkey, " 'Googleology': powerful tool or unreliable evidence?" Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, Volume 67, Number 3, September 2010, p. 26,
The number of has been proposed as a measure of notability of a publication or author; the field of study is called citation analysis.Roger Clarke, " A pilot citation analysis of Australian Information Systems Researchers", 2006 (note: this self published website article is cited in Australasian Journal of Information Systems, Volume 15, Number 2, 2009 - "Electronic Commerce publications and the implications for research quality output in Australia")Rens Scheepers, Helana Scheepers, Julie Fisher, " Electronic Commerce publications and research in Australia: Implications of the Research Quality Framework" Australasian Journal of Information Systems, Volume 15, Number 2, 2009,
Notability may be considered to be objective, e.g., inherently as the big bang; relativism objectively determinable using a conventional definition, which is subjectivity determined by consensus,Paula Berinstein, " Wikipedia and Britannica:The Kid’s All Right (And So’s the Old Man)", Information Today e.g., an online encyclopedia consensus to consider all towns as being notable, no matter how small; or subjective,Sharman Lichtenstein A1 and Craig M. Parker, " Wikipedia model for collective intelligence: a review of information quality", International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, Volume 5, Number 3-4, 2009, pp. 254-272 such as a notably emotional day for an individual.
Conferring notability is related to transitivity and the syllogism. If all A's are notable, and x is an A, then x is notable is true by syllogism, but if A is notable, and x is an element of A, then x is not necessarily notable. If x is more notable than y, and y is more notable than z, then x is more notable than z, but if person x considers A to be notable, and A is a subset of B, then x does not necessarily consider B to be notable; an example of an intentional context in the paradox of the name relation.Dagfinn Føllesdal, Philosophy of Quine (2000) 5 volumes.
Using fallacious reasoning to confer notability
Name dropping and argument by authority are examples of attempts to confer notability by associating the name of something notable with something else in an attempt to establish notability of that thing.
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