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![]() | This page in a nutshell: A participant in a beauty pageant is presumed to be notable if the person has been declared the winner of a major international- or national-level beauty pageant competition and so is likely to have received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject. |
This essay is used to help evaluate whether or not a participant in a beauty pageant is likely to meet the standards for notability, and thus merit an article in Wikipedia. The article must provide reliable sources showing that the subject meets the general notability guideline or the pageant-specific criteria set forth below.
If the article does meet the criteria set forth below, then it is likely that sufficient sources exist to satisfy the inclusion criteria for a stand-alone article. Failing to meet the criteria in this essay means that notability will need to be established in other ways (e.g., the general notability guideline, or other, topic-specific, notability guidelines).
The meeting of any of these criteria does not mean that an article must be retained as a standalone article.
All information included in Wikipedia, including articles about beauty pageants and their participants, must be verifiable. See also Wikipedia's basic criteria for the notability of people and the General notability guideline. Information about living persons must meet stringent requirements for those types of articles.
Subjects that do not meet the pageant-specific criteria outlined in this essay may still be notable if they meet the General notability guideline or a subject specific notability guideline.
A person is presumed to be notable if he or she has been the subject of multiple published[1] non-trivial[2] secondary sources which are reliable, intellectually independent,[3] and independent of the subject.[4] The criteria on this page are intended to reflect the fact that beauty pageant participants are likely to meet Wikipedia's basic standards of inclusion if they have, for example, won a major international or national competition at the highest level (such as Miss World).
Winners of Big Four pageants are generally presumed to be notable.
Winners of the national-level pageants which select participants for the Big Four pageants are likewise generally presumed to be notable. Certain independent national-level or supra-national pageants such as Miss America and Miss Europe, by virtue of long establishment and widespread coverage, are also presumed to indicate notability in winners.
As in all subject-specific guidelines (this being an essay), this presumption of notability in line with the above is rebuttable and not a guarantee of notability.
Winners of sub-national level pageants or subsidiary awards (e.g., Miss Virgin Islands, Miss Congeniality, Miss World Beach Beauty) are usually not notable for such per se, even if they have won more than one. This does not stop them from passing the general notability guidelines for such if the coverage for such either reaches beyond local news coverage, or is substantial and persistent.
Beauty pageant participants who do not qualify for presumed notability under the above specific criteria may very well be notable under the general notability guidelines. (See, e.g. Honey Boo Boo)
Non-notable pageants, absent other general notability criteria, are often characterized by:
Note that there are pageants that may match some or all of the above criteria but would nonetheless pass the general notability guideline, such as Miss Tibet.