Wikipedia:Relevance
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For guidance on the encyclopedic suitability of subjects or articles as a whole, refer to Wikipedia:Notability. For the suitability of certain types of content, see Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. For the relevance of links to outside websites, see Wikipedia:External links.

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This page in a nutshell: Stay on topic.

On Wikipedia, relevance is simply whether a fact (in an article) is useful to the reader and is in the right article.

See also

Related guidelines

• Wikipedia:Writing better articles — a style guideline that "sets out advice on... how to make an article clear, precise and relevant to the reader." (italics added)

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