Does notability require recognition outside of the hobby/ industry/ medium/ area of interest? Obviously, an Oscar is notable; even people who don't care about movies know what an Oscar is. But, for example, the All Japan Koi Show and its winners are nowhere to be found in Wikipedia, despite being the Holy Grail for tens of thousands of koi enthusiasts around the globe, and its winning fish selling for six figures. In Japan it is covered in the news at least as strongly as the Westminster Kennel Club's dog show is in the USA. Given the extensive Wikipedia articles on specific video, computer and role playing games, it's obvious that we do in fact consider as "notable" many things that appeal only to a tiny slice of people (see
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ,
Dark Sun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) Not saying WoW isn't notable, but a full article on each expansion kind of puts to rest any notion of an impartial standard of "notability" requiring recognition from the non-gaming press.
