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Found this place on Fark, and then TFP pretty much replaced Fark for me. Haven't been there in months. But I check in here nearly each time I'm on the internet.

Thanks to all that made this possible.

ive been here for about 2.5 years now, so im middle aged in terms of TFP years. came onto TFP by accident through google, and have found this place to be a beacon of information and a great melting pot of many views and ideas. i love this place and log on everytime im online.

think i've been here about 2 years now...it's been absolutely the best online experience i've ever had. meering all you guys, getting to know you guys and making friends that i feel that i've known forever and havn't even met YET...

thank you to all who make this possible and thanks to all members for just being who you are,for giving me something i don't think i'll ever beable to let go of,something i'll never forget and the opportunity to meet people that i really look up to and admire.

Happy Birthday TFP...

Any place that you can say that you've made friends that live around the world... It has to be fuckin' cool.

Not to mention it's gotten me laid.

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.

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I don't have much to do with Wikipedia, so can anyone fix this?

Typical wikipedia... no sense of scale.

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Originally Posted by Lucifer

Well, the only way to fix this is to prove TFP's notability. I am not sure that this can be done. As internet forums go we are pretty small (598th by post count according to this site). The fact that TFP is the GREATEST forum on the internet would unfortunately not considered be considered neutral and objective by the wikipedians! :(
So unless we were mentioned in some print publication or something like that then I don't think that there is much that we can do to prevent this article from being deleted.

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Originally Posted by Lucifer

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.

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.