User:PorkchopGMX/essay/Popularity doesn't always equal notability
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 | This page in a nutshell: If you are popular, that does not always mean you are notable. Also, don’t create an article about yourself. |
So, you are very popular. Somebody makes an article about you. Later, the article gets deleted. Why did it get deleted?
If something exists, it’s not automatically notable. But you exist and you’re popular. Popularity and fame have been used in deletion discussions to delete or keep and have sometimes worked however these don’t automatically make the subject notable. Say you have a lot of subscribers on YouTube. If there is a lot of good sources, and the general notability guideline has been met, your article will usually survive. But if you don’t really have a lot of good sources despite meeting some criteria, your article may be deleted.
If you think you’re popular and you want to create an article about yourself, don’t create an article about yourself, or other people related to you, it will almost always get deleted.
Also if your subject can be briefly described in a related article, don’t create an article about it unless the subject is noteworthy in its own right. Say somebody writes an article about Tropical Depression Four (2017), a storm in the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season despite it being very weak, not affecting land, and not being noteworthy itself. Hurricane Harvey, a hurricane that happened later in the season, hit Texas and caused a lot of damage, and being very noteworthy for it being very catastrophic, deserves an article. Somebody later puts Tropical Depression Four into the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season article and redirects the article about the tropical depression to that section, realizing it was not very noteworthy.
If somebody deletes an article about you, do not ask them to give it back. If you react aggressively to an article being deleted, it may let you to being blocked. For help on why your article was deleted, see Why was the page I created deleted?. The article about you could be on sites like Deletionpedia, allowing users to recover the article and make improvements to it.