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notability guidelines, and tags pointing out that the info reads like an ad and lacks sources have been ignored by active editors, who appear to be affiliated with the site. I don't think this meets Knowledge (XXG) notability requirements, and the tags haven't led to any improvement, so now putting
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the only source there is in the article shouldn't even be a source, which is the website itself. There needs to be reliable secondary and tertiary sources. Furthermore, it's written like an ad, which isn't allowed.
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I do not claim that we should have articles on all websites over a certain age. Rather, I claim that being (one of) the first major sites to do something in particular is probably a sign of notability.
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04:56, 16 June 2007 (UTC) -- now that I look back on this comment, I wonder where I got the number 11 from. Maybe I misread it as from 1996, or my poor math skills are shining through :p --
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we have to follow. This article pretty clearly doesn't meet it as it stands now, as it has no reliable outside references, etc. If the age of a site made something notable, that'd be in
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There are a lot of sites in the 10ish years age bracket. It really isn't that rare. We'd have thousands of articles on minor personal homepages if age made a site notable.
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I did a search for news coverage and the like, but nothing came up. Unless someone comes up with some reliable sources... this is a delete for lacking notability.
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I'd say that it's age is fairly notable, if true, because most sites die only after a few years. Eleven years is a long time, especially on the internet. --
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based on the age (websites from 1994 are pretty much the foundation of the internet). Assuming that factlet can be verified, that is. The article
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site or just one that was there at the time under a different owner) and never managed to get any reliable third party sources etc. (per
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It's not just a "a brief summary of the nature of the content or the publication of internet addresses and site", it's also a review. --
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the subject is notable regardless of how crappy the article is -- anybody voting Keep should scrounge around and just fix it. (
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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to acknowledge its existence? Wow. And the Knowledge (XXG) article itself only sprung up a few months ago.
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notable. It's been around since at least 1996 (according to archive.org -- though I don't know if it's the
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talkin a
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I've been on the internet almost every day since 1994, and I've never heard of this site until now.)
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3) a brief summary of the nature of the content or the publication of internet addresses and site"
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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highly advertorial in tone, and way too long, and contains too much trivia.
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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Here are two non-trivial reviews, both from magazines:
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Knowledge (XXG):Articles for deletion
deletion review
Walton
19:15, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Fun Trivia
Fun Trivia
edit
talk
history
protect
delete
links
watch
logs
views
View log
WP:WEB
DreamGuy
20:20, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
W:WEB
Kim Dent-Brown

20:52, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
Polenth
02:54, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
>Radiant<
11:13, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
WP:WEB
DreamGuy
17:46, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

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