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Content on Wikipedia must be informative (that is, containing information), as well as being verifiable and of a neutral point of view. This is because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and the purpose of an encyclopedia is to inform.
Information, for the purposes of Wikipedia, is either actionable or interesting.
A piece of information is actionable if it might be used to do something, and actioned if it has been used to do something. Everything actioned is therefore actionable. For example:
By "interesting", we don't mean "interesting to everyone", or "interesting to you". Rather, we seek information that is potentially interesting to, at least, some small but significant proportion of the world's population. For example:
If someone says they find something interesting, then they probably do, but this is not an excuse to include idiosyncratic information that really is found interesting only by this one person.
One type of uninteresting information is that which is obvious. Note that what is obvious to one person may not be obvious to someone else. However, sometimes things really are too obvious for words, and we'd rather live without them. For example:
One way to tell if something is too obvious is to ask if it is distinguished -- that is, does it set apart the subject of the article from other entities of the same general category? Every human being breathes; and all cities contain houses, flats, streets, and shops -- thus, these facts do not distinguish Ms. Thatcher or Worcester.
![]() | This is a
failed proposal.
Consensus for its implementation was not established within a reasonable period of time. If you want to revive discussion, please use
the talk page or initiate a thread at
the village pump. |
Content on Wikipedia must be informative (that is, containing information), as well as being verifiable and of a neutral point of view. This is because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and the purpose of an encyclopedia is to inform.
Information, for the purposes of Wikipedia, is either actionable or interesting.
A piece of information is actionable if it might be used to do something, and actioned if it has been used to do something. Everything actioned is therefore actionable. For example:
By "interesting", we don't mean "interesting to everyone", or "interesting to you". Rather, we seek information that is potentially interesting to, at least, some small but significant proportion of the world's population. For example:
If someone says they find something interesting, then they probably do, but this is not an excuse to include idiosyncratic information that really is found interesting only by this one person.
One type of uninteresting information is that which is obvious. Note that what is obvious to one person may not be obvious to someone else. However, sometimes things really are too obvious for words, and we'd rather live without them. For example:
One way to tell if something is too obvious is to ask if it is distinguished -- that is, does it set apart the subject of the article from other entities of the same general category? Every human being breathes; and all cities contain houses, flats, streets, and shops -- thus, these facts do not distinguish Ms. Thatcher or Worcester.