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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Heather (talk | contribs) at 14:25, 16 February 2006 ([[Marvel Database Project]]). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

The article notes itself that "just over 27% of the Database Project's traffic comes from Wikipedia". This is hardly surprising given most of JamieHari (talk · contribs) contributions are inserting links to it across the wikipedia, and he is the site owner and editor in chief, as well as main contributor to this article. The article Marvel Database Project has been the subject of a deletion debate where consensus was delete and has been speedied twice since. The page is vanity, spam and fails WP:WEB. I would speedy again but the page has grown and so can't be thought of as a simple recreation, given User:Xaosflux's comments on the talk page. Delete. Steve block talk 10:53, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete and page protect it this time. I'll probably check it out and it is a cool idea, but that doesn't make it notable.--Isotope23 17:02, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. I don't yet see any evidence of it being important enough for an article. If in the future there is verifiable evidence of it being important then it can have an article, but only after that evidence is presented. As it is the article is full of original research. - Taxman Talk 20:14, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete cruft.Blnguyen 02:22, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom; vanispamcruftisement ergot 02:55, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • I am very very sympathetic to reference sites, (the notion that they should be subject to WP:WEB as with any other site is one I do not agree with) and don't consider low Alexa rank (this one seems to have about 172,000?) as an argument to support a vote against a reference. But what I am not seeing in my searches is evidence that this site is regarded as a reference by others. If a link from official Marvel sites (more than just a fan link) were evidenced, it would help. If the articles had sourcing (for example Captain America, an article you'd expect to have depth (it does) and sourcing (it does not... all the facts in the bio have no ties to particular issues or sourcing of any kind), it would be more likely to be a scholarly reference. I think there is a great deal of work put into the site by the users (considerably more than Yellowikis, which I voted Keep for) and the article here shows a good deal of work, but it's by one person. And the community has come to consensus that it should not be kept, more than once. So, with some considerable regret userify. If it was a reference site that's referencable, I would have advocated keep. I am glad this was not speedied so it could be discussed. ++Lar: t/c 04:08, 16 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]