Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TAGIPEDIA

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 kept — Werdna • talk 02:50, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

TAGIPEDIA

Unknow website, Google shows 118 results only! O sama K 14:56, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

delete as per web guidelines - this site is not notable. --Killerofcruft (talk) 15:45, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Deb (talk) 15:50, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete fails WP:WEB, and it reads like an ad. Boccobrock•T 20:48, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Another self-promotion article. Zero Kitsune (talk) 21:06, 22 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep This is a non-profit project which aims to share the knowledge online and activate the open source lisence concept in the Arab world. How could it be promotional??!! --Ramez Quneibi (talk) 14:29, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rewrite I suggest write it to be more informative --TAGITI (talk) 21:44, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Sometime, we become unable to rewrite an article. We don't delete an article which needs rewriting only. Is this website so important? this is the question--O sama K 06:01, 25 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 21:32, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep. I rewrote it so it's not an advertisement. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, founder of the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization, mentioned it in an international Internet conference in Dubai and a speech to Jordan's Minister for Political Development and Minister of State for Legal Affairs. He and his organization are notable, so I'd argue that this project he's co-creating is also notable. MeekSaffron (talk) 18:12, 26 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per MeekSaffron. He's rewritten it enough that the promotional concern is largely gone. Not much real evidence of notability, but it's more difficult to make that judgment for a non-Western subject. This may need to be revisited down the road, but I'm inclined to say we give it a chance at this point.--Kubigula (talk) 03:56, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed an Arabic version (also on AFD) and looked at one of their references, to Al-Riyadh Daily. According to http://www.knowledgeview.co.uk/node/53 (because WP doesn't yet have an article, deleted or otherwise), "Al-Riyadh Daily is one of the leading newspapers in Saudi Arabia, with over 200 journalists and reporters for offices in many Saudi cities in addition to editorial offices in Cairo, Beirut and other cities." It appears as Other News: Emirates Internet encyclopedia plans to establish an electronic Arabic on the IT section of their site (machine translation), so that doesn't look like a press release. MeekSaffron (talk) 05:46, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete. Seems non-notable website at the moment. Recreate it if it gains many users or notablity. At the moment seems no different from the thousands of other specialist wikis.Yobmod (talk) 14:42, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.