Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ModTheSims2
I love the site, I visit it often, and I've participated on the forums. However, it's does not meet the notability requirements for wikipedia.
It fails two important guidelines. WP:WEB and WP:VAIN The site was created and heavily edited by the site creator who goes by the nickname Delphi. The site was featured in two mass-media publication, however, the seem part of the excluded content of WEB #1: "Trivial coverage, such as newspaper articles that simply report the Internet address, the times at which such content is updated or made available, a brief summary of the nature of the content or the publication of Internet addresses and site or content descriptions in Internet directories or online stores."
The site also has a high Alexa rank. However, web ranking is not a criteria for inclusion in the wikipedia and shouldn't be considered. Also, a detailed search query of google shows that 90,000+ of the unique google hits belong to the page itself. [1]. A vanilla search of the site's name reveals that there are only 635 unique web entries.
The article is also somewhat of a link farm that may also be a violation of WP:EL.
It's a very good resource and should be referenced in the main Sims2 article. So, I say Delete, redirect to The Sims 2, and include in external links. --Kunzite 05:26, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
- Comment — I'm not sure about this one; it doesn't smell like vanity to me, despite getting created/edited by the site creator and even if it was, "vanity by itself is not a basis for deletion, but lack of assertion of importance is".
- On the WEB thing... I'm not sure. ShaunES 07:47, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
- Note: This debate has been added to the list of CVG deletions. RandyWang (chat me up/fix me up) 08:54, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
- Keep does not fail WP:V and as for WP:VAIN it should be re-written some, but definitely not deleted. Havok (T/C/c) 10:41, 14 August 2006 (UTC)