Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cable Rant
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- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was delete. causa sui (talk) 03:11, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Don't see why the forum merits its own article.
Only claims to notability are (a) over 500 members (b) some news stories broken. However: (a) 500+ members is not at all unusual, and the forum isn't very active (just over 6,000 posts to date, and none for two days). (b) The broken news stories don't appear to be major stories.
Seems to be only minimal mention of forum elsewhere (though it is a bit difficult to search for). A bit iffy (talk) 08:38, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions. —A bit iffy (talk) 08:47, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. —A bit iffy (talk) 09:04, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment - Probably fails notability for internet WP:WEB. Just a forum and chat site. Editor who created the article never did anything else on WP. MakeSense64 (talk) 15:17, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete per WP:RS and WP:WEB. The "sources" don't really discuss Cable Rant at all; two of them cite Cable Rant (casually and in passing) as their own source, and one doesn't even appear to mention Cable Rant at all. No signs here of any notability, and I couldn't find anything in a Google search either. Richwales (talk · contribs) 23:58, 27 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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