This is an essay on notability. It contains the advice or opinions of one or more Wikipedia contributors. This page is not an encyclopedia article or a Wikipedia policy, as it has not been reviewed by the community.

This page in a nutshell: Please do not just provide a list of URLs in response to a declined draft, or in a deletion debate

Sometimes, typically when a draft is declined, an editor provides a "URL dump", a raw listing of references. Providing a URL dump very seldom addresses a notability issue. Reliable sources are very important in Wikipedia, but they are not the sole consideration; they are a necessary but not sufficient condition for acceptance (or retention) of an article. The content and quality of the references is also important, as is the subject matter. The idea that providing more references will always get an article accepted is a myth. Sometimes better references are what are needed (and if so, it is probably good to provide the three best sources), and sometimes there is another issue also or instead.

A reviewer who is given a URL dump may actually be quite annoyed, because providing only a list of references sends a message: "I am too important and too busy to work these references into the form of footnotes in an article draft. You should do this for me." That is probably not the message that the submitter intends to be sending, but it is the message that the reviewer may get. So don't provide a URL dump. If you have already provided a URL dump, it would be more helpful to edit your draft to work the references into it in the form of proper footnotes.