Wikipedia:One hundred words

At the present time, the general notability guideline provides inadequate guidance as to what level of coverage is significant. The example presently offered (a large book) should obviously not be taken as a minimum standard for significant coverage, as most topics that meet this criterion have not had entire books written about them.

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This page in a nutshell: Sources with at least 100 words of coverage of a topic generally constitute significant coverage of that topic.

It is therefore suggested that one hundred non-repetitious words, written in more or less continuous prose,^[1] in one or more sources, is clearly significant coverage in all cases. This figure is, however, only suggested as a maximum. Fifty such words would likely be significant.

[These numbers were inspired by the length of articles in the New Discovery Encyclopedia (Rainbow Books, 1990), though they are not averages or any other kind of statistic. They roughly correspond with the length of a decent sized paragraph. They also happen to be round numbers. This essay is 150 words, footnote excepted.]