"notorious article" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to a specific article (in a newspaper, magazine, or online) that is known for its notoriety or widespread negative reputation. Example: The newspaper published a notorious article about the politician's scandalous affair, causing a huge uproar among the public.
Almost 50 Turkish journalists face prosecution under the notorious article 301 of the penal code.
(That provision, the notorious Article 121, was repealed two years later, in 1993).
He opens the newspaper and sees the notorious article: "RARE CANCER IS DIAGNOSED IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS".
Two days later came the now notorious article, this time written by the highly-trusted staff journalist Geoffrey Levy.
If the government were sincere about democracy, it should have scrapped the notorious Article 301 of the penal code that makes it a crime to "insult Turkishness".
A notorious article in which he compared "exotic" women with "big brood mares with saggy breasts" has come back to haunt him time and again – he was roasted for it in a Q&A with users on Mumsnet.
McQueen's most notorious articles of clothing are pants called bumsters: they lower the waistline, make people look taller, and reveal rear cleavage.
We talked about the novelist Milan Kundera's notorious 'Finis Bohemiae' article, written in the 1970s when he was an exile in France.
It was François Truffaut who turned that phrase into a sarcastic opprobrium with his notorious 1954 article, "A Certain Tendency of the French Cinema," published in Les Cahiers du Cinéma.
A few months earlier, Boris Johnson, then Tory MP for Henley and editor of the Spectator, had been forced to apologise for a notorious leader article in the magazine accusing Liverpool people of being "hooked on grief" and rehashing the Sun newspaper lies over Hillsborough for good measure.
Then it's back to the survival issue again (brief interview with author of a notorious Atlantic article predicting that The Times might be out of business within four months; a former Timesman now at Harvard expressing outrage that anyone would say such a thing; no one noting that the article was published more than two years ago and therefore has already been proved wrong).
