01-24-2007, 07:11 AM
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Junkie
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Originally Posted by Lucifer
I was just over at Wikipedia, and saw that they are proposing to delete the TFP entry. here's what they said:
It is proposed that this article be deleted, because of the following concern:
non-notable Internet forum
If you can address this concern by improving, copyediting, sourcing, renaming or merging the page, please edit this page and do so. You may remove this message if you improve the article, or if you otherwise object to deletion of the article for any reason. To avoid confusion, it helps to explain why you object to the deletion, either in the edit summary or on the talk page. If this template is removed, it should not be replaced.
The article may be deleted if this message remains in place for five days.Prod, concern: non-notable Internet forum This template was added 2007-01-23; five days from then is 2007-01-28.
If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article so that it is acceptable according to the deletion policy. Nominator: Please consider notifying the author(s) of this page using
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I don't have much to do with Wikipedia, so can anyone fix this? |
there isn't anything that could or should be done
wikipedia has a criteria for articles about websites, and it's posted:
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Criteria
Notability on Wikipedia for Web-specific content[3] is based on the following criterion:
* The content itself has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the site itself.
o This criterion includes published works in all forms, such as newspaper and magazine articles, books, television documentaries, and published reports by consumer watchdog organizations.[4] except for the following:
+ Media re-prints of press releases and advertising for the content or site.[5]
+ Trivial coverage, such as (1) newspaper articles that simply report the internet address, (2) newspaper articles that simply report the times at which such content is updated or made available, (3) a brief summary of the nature of the content or the publication of internet addresses and site or (4) content descriptions in internet directories or online stores.
The above is the central criterion for inclusion. Below are some criteria that make it very likely that sufficient reliable information is available about particular Web content. Web content that satisfies at least one of the items below may merit its own Wikipedia article, as there is likely to be a good deal of verifiable information available and a good deal of public interest regarding it.
* The website or content has won a notable independent award from either a publication or organization.[6]
* The content is distributed via a medium which is both well known and independent of the creators, either through an online newspaper or magazine, an online publisher, or an online broadcaster.[7]
The article itself must provide proof that its subject meets one of these criteria via inlined links or a "Reference" or "External link" section. Even if an entire website meets the notability criteria, its components (forums, articles, sections) are not necessarily notable and deserving of their own separate article.
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TFP has been a lot of things for me, and I'm pleased to be a member, but it doesn't warrant a wiki page.
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