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FilePile

It is online. You used the wrong URL - [2]. - Xed 11:23, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete When did Wikipedia become a web directory? --Ryland 05:56, 14 August 2005 (UTC) User created purely for voting in this[reply]
  • Delete Wikipedia doesn't need a page on every website in existence thewittyname 06:28, August 14, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete No need for this. --SnackAdmiral 01:52, 15 August 2005 (UTC) User created purely for voting in this[reply]
  • Delete I see no good reason for this page to be here. If "FilePile" is in fact a private community, the only purpose this article serves is self-promotion for the site's users. Nobody seems to know anything definite about "FilePile" other than that the domain name exists; I don't think Wikipedia should be a forum for speculation and pointless self-promotion. What will be next, articles about individual livejournal user pages? --Eo 06:55, 14 August 2005 (UTC) Less than 10 edits[reply]
  • Delete Hardly a useful web resource, is it. zadcat 14:15, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Every online community considers themselves important and unique, but not every batch of threads and links deserves its own entry here. Davebug 14:21, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • User created for voting in this
    • While I'm not a hugely active Wikipedia contributer, my account was most assuredly not created "to vote for this articles deletion." Davebug 17:28, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Once this private web site gets a Wikipage, then all the private web sites will want one. Wikipedia shouldn't be a vanity project for other web sites. --Grum0613 15:58, 14 August 2005 (UTC) too few edits[reply]
  • Delete for the reasons stated above. -℘yrop (talk) 18:20, August 14, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete Wikipedia is not a directory of the internet and there are far more notable sites than this that don't have a page -jimblackler 21:20, August 14, 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Vanity, unverifiable (both links offered as references require logins). — Adam Conover † 20:29, August 14, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep. The fact that some of Filepile's 8000 members wish to maintain it as a sort of secret club does not justify removing or defacing accurate information about this important online community.
    • The site has been mentioned and discussed numerous times on several Web sites and blogs, including Metafilter (11 times!). Google reports that nearly 7000 pages contain the site's URL (filepile.org). Given that Filepile is well-known and often discussed, there is a wealth of verifiable information about the site.
    • As well, Wikipedia contains a great many articles on secret societies -- including the Mafia, Ku Klux Klan, and Freemasonry -- information about which one would expect to be difficult to obtain.
      • This "wealth of verifiable information" does not appear in the article, nor are the statistics about how many times a subject has been discussed on Metafilter particularly impressive or encyclopedic. The "secret societies" named have all actually done something that made an impact on the world. If "FilePile" has achieved any notability, it has not been demonstrated here. Dystopos 03:43, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
    • Wikipedia contained an article on Metafilter when it had a closed membership, making arguments about Filepile's privacy moot.

--Dunheroin 22:35, 14 August 2005 (UTC) (Dunheroin's second edit is this) --Celestianpower hab 22:38, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

  • Metafilter had closed its membership, but the site was viewable to the public.
  • File Pile is not a secret society. It is a private file sharing site.
— Linnwood (talk)File:Us flag large.png 22:58, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep - About half of the above users were created to vote for this articles deletion. - Xed 07:44, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete What zadcat said. I come here for useful information, not to find out about a private online community.
    • did somebody really just compare the site to that of the KKK and the Mafia?
      • Yet another user created for the purpose of voting delete on this article. Wonder where they all come from ...? - Xed 15:00, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
      • actually no, check my date.
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