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Wikipedia:Notability (awards and honors)

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Wikipedia's notability guidelines for articles about people state that "People are likely to be notable if ... The person has received a well-known and significant award or honor, or has been nominated for such an award several times" (WP:ANYBIO#1). There are, however, long-running queries and disagreements about which awards and honours are deemed well-known and significant enough to confer notability on recipients, sometimes leading to protracted and unnecessary AfDs, or allowing for POV arguments (reflecting editors' biases) to creep into such discussions.[1] The purpose of this essay is to build up a list of awards and honours which the community have agreed confer notability on their subjects for the purposes of meeting WP:ANYBIO#1. It is divided into three sections: academic awards, industry awards and state awards or honors.

Academic awards

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Industry awards

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State awards or honors

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  • The guidelines for recipients of gallantry awards across all countries are laid out in WP:MILPEOPLE.

United Kingdom

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  • For the purposes of establishing a subject's notability under WP:ANYBIO#1, if a person has received any of the following from the Sovereign of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and (Northern) Ireland they are considered notable:
    • a peerage (only those created peers, hereditary peers elected to sit in the House of Lords after 1999, or people who inherited a peerage enabling them to sit in the House of Lords before 1999);
    • a baronetcy (only those created baronets);
    • a knighthood or damehood;
    • the Order of Merit;
    • the Order of the Companions of Honour; or
    • the Royal Victorian Chain.

Notes

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