How much media coverage do you need to qualify for a Wikipedia page?

Wikipedia does not publish a quantitative threshold for notability because the assessment is qualitative: how substantive is the coverage, how reliable are the sources, how independent are they, and how directly does each piece treat the subject. In practice the floor for clear cases is three to five substantial pieces, with each piece being a full article rather than a passing mention. For borderline cases, complex subjects, or anything likely to face Articles for Deletion review, the working number rises to ten or more, because the article needs to support the breadth of content that survives scrutiny. The sources also need to span time – a cluster of coverage from one news cycle is weaker than sustained coverage over months or years – and they need to span outlets, since multiple pieces from the same outlet carry less weight than coverage across several editorially independent sources.