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== Notable topics have attracted attention over a sufficiently significant period of time ==
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{{See also|Wikipedia:Notability#Events|
Wikipedia is a {{em|lagging indicator of notability}}. Just as a [[lagging economic indicator]] indicates what the economy was doing in the past, a topic is "notable" in Wikipedia terms only if the outside world has already "taken notice of it". Once established, notability is not [[#Notability is not temporary|temporary]]. Brief bursts of news coverage may not sufficiently demonstrate notability. However, sustained coverage is an indicator of notability, as described by [[WP:NEVENTS|notability of events]]. New organizations and future events might pass [[WP:GNG]], but lack sufficient coverage to satisfy [[WP:NOTNEWSPAPER]], and these must still also satisfy [[WP:NOTPROMOTION]].
If reliable sources cover a person only in the context of a single event, and if that person otherwise remains, and is likely to remain, a low-profile individual, [[WP:BLP1E|we should generally avoid having a biographical article on that individual]].
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