Template:Importance

This template will place tagged articles in Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability. This template is a self-reference. It should not be subst'd.

The principal distinction between Importance and Importance-sect, aside from the obvious fact that the former is for entire articles and the latter for sections, is that articles are subject to notability guidelines and the notability requirements, in some cases, in Wikipedia's deletion policy; "notability" in Wikipedia does not equate to a subjective determination of "importance". On the other hand, sections in an article about a clearly notable subject should be of encyclopedic merit and both relevant to the topic of the article and non-trivial (i.e. "important" in the context).

Use this template when the subject probably is notable enough, but the article fails to establish notability (as is often the case with short stub articles, and sometimes those with a lot of minutiae but an underdeveloped "big picture"). When an article subject is mostly likely non-notable, use Notability (and when an article is certainly, hopelessly non-notable take it to Articles for deletion).