Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Theforumsite

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. Clear agreement that it does not satisfy the GNG. WilliamH (talk) 01:47, 24 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Theforumsite

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Declined CSD, carted out here for public flogging/redemption. A large webforum doesn't meet WP:GNG by virtue of being large alone. No secondary coverage or WP:RS and well, its only claim to fame is being big which whilst a nice thing doesn't really make it notable. tutterMouse (talk) 11:05, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:26, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. There are literally no secondary sources that would show notability. It's very briefly mentioned in a book called The Social Media Bible as an example, but it doesn't appear to be something that would show that it's notable enough to have its own wiki entry. [1] (It doesn't help that the entry isn't encyclopedically written.) The current sources on the page are not considered to be reliable sources as they're either primary sources from the website itself or alexa rankings, which are more trivial sources than anything. Also, considering that their 1% claim is coming from a search that's around 1,460,000,000 pages, it's not really all that impressive when you consider that most of the links come from the site, spam websites that will copy whatever you type in, and other things that generally don't count towards notability. (Besides, Ghits don't count towards notability.)Tokyogirl79 (talk) 17:35, 16 January 2012 (UTC)tokyogirl79[reply]
Delete Notability neither claimed nor verifiable. Dennis Brown (talk) 13:28, 21 January 2012 (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.