Jump to content

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Fora

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
< Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Deletion sorting
This is an old revision of this page, as edited by X42bn6 (talk | contribs) at 02:30, 19 August 2005. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

What defines a 'big' forum

The issue, I believe, that a lot of these forums have in common, is the debate over 'size'. It seems that if a forum or discussion board is 'big', then it is kept, otherwise, it is deleted. For example, GameFAQs is obviously huge, so it gets lots of keep votes, but a forum set up by a 15-year-old with 300 forums using InvisionFree, with his kid brother and himself as the other member, as the only two members, gets lots of delete votes.

So, I think that it is necessary for to set some sort of criteria of 'size' for articles.

Unfortunately, this is generally quite a grey area...

What do you think? -x42bn6 10:13, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, Wikipedia:Websites currently proposes "5,000 or more apparently unique members" as adequate grounds for inclusion. That seems like a reasonable benchmark to me. That doesn't mean that we can't keep smaller fora, of course, if there are other grounds for keeping them. -- Visviva 11:05, 18 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
In which case, 99% of the articles here should be deleted... -x42bn6 02:30, 19 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Fora&oldid=21334892"