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Starting from most obvious:

Check the history.

  1. Blank page?
    1. Blanked by author? [G7]
    2. Blanked by other? Revert
  2. In English?
    1. Exists on other wikipedia? [A2]
    2. Does not? [Move to draft or tag with Not English (debated on NPP talk page(?))]
  3. Understandable?
    1. Nonsensical? [G1]
    2. No context? [A1]
  4. Appropriateness of content?
    1. Attack page? [G10]
    2. Entirely promotional/spam? [G11]
    3. Vandalism/hoax? [G3]
    4. Made-up by creator? [A11]
    5. Topic already exists? [A10 or redirect]
    6. Copyvio? [G12]
  5. Claim of significance?
    1. Insignificant people, individual animals, organization/company, web content, organized event, band? [A7]
    2. Insignificant musical recording (for example, musical recording of a group which does not have an article)? [A9]
    3. Insignificant anything else? PROD/AfD
  6. Cleanup/tags
    1. BLP without sources? [BLPPROD or Move to draft]
    2. Other topics without sources? [Tag]
    3. Categories? [Tag]
    4. Stub? [Tag]





The extra mile (but not required):

  • Stub sorting
  • Adding to categories
  • Classifying by wikiproject
  • Copyedit



Things that are always considered notable as long as they do exist (or so I've been told in the past):

  • Species of organisms
  • Experimental drugs at phase II of clinical trials
  • Genes
  • Train stations
  • Human settlements
  • Mountains, rivers
  • Listed buildings
  • Provincial/state legislative districts[1]