Public profile

Notability is the property of being worthy of notice, having fame, or being considered to be of a high degree of interest, significance, or distinction. It also refers to the capacity to be such. Persons who are notable due to public responsibility, accomplishments, or, even, mere participation in the celebrity industry are said to have a public profile.

The concept arises in the philosophy of aesthetics regarding aesthetic appraisal. There are criticism of art galleries determining monetary valuation, or valuation so as to determine what or what not to display, being based on notability of the artist, rather than inherent quality of the art work.

Notability arises in decisions on coverage questions in journalism. Marketers and newspapers may try to create notability to create celebrity, fame, or , or to increase sales, as in the yellow press.

The privileged class are sometimes called notables, when compared to peasants.

Emily Artinian compares this passage with Borges' The Library of Babel.

Persons wanting to delete an article on the grounds of non-notability are called . Those not wanting to delete the article are called .

The number of citations has been proposed as a measure of notability of a publication or author; the field of study is called citation analysis.

Notability may be considered to be objective, e.g., inherently as the big bang; relatively objectively determinable using a conventional definition, which is subjectively determined by consensus, e.g., an online encyclopedia consensus to consider all towns as being notable, no matter how small; or subjective, such as a notably emotional day for an individual.

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