Talk:Global Village Construction Set

Objection to the deletion of this article
A Proposed deletion banner has been put on this article with the following statement: "Lacks citations to significant coverage in reliable sources. Google search brings up TED talk and a number of blogs. Might be notable one day but that day is not today."

While I agree there is very little coverage in mainstream media and that (secondary) reliable sources are hard to find (and this is indeed a concern), when I search for "Global Village Construction Set", Google returns 180k results, Bing 150k, and Yahoo 100k. I have to conclude that on the Internet, this project is unquestionnably notable and that it has its place on Wikipedia.

Moreover, this project has won the Green Project Contest organized by the Make magazine and it has successfully entered the semi-finalist stage of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, among 124 other projects (it didn't win though). For these reasons, I'm removing this banner, while acknowledging this article needs much more material and refs to reliable source. — Xavier, 21:52, 26 June 2011 (UTC)


 * "Global Village Construction Set" appears to be the more appropriate title here but questions remain. Be careful looking to counts of Google, Bing or any other search engine's hits for an indication of notability however.  When doing so, put the search phrase in quotes, especially when it contains commonly used words such as 'Global' or 'Villiage' that are going to incorrectly inflate the search result set. Also, those references still must meet Wikipedia's guidelines for reliable sources.  Looking at Google web hits on "Global Village Construction Set", so many of them are primary sources or self published (blogs and wikis) that it's going to be a challenge to reference this article in a way that meets wikipedia guidelines.  Also so many of these hits appear to be based almost entirely on the Ted talk or press releases from the founder of this project. A google news search on the title brings up only 2 hits, one in a Polish newspaper and the other is on environmental news aggregator but is about a project related to this one.   There is no strict requirement that articles be referenced only in mainstream media sources but where there is so little coverage about a topic in that outlets, it raises red flags about the notability of the topic.  We'll leave the proposed deletion off for now, to give a chance to suitable source the article.--RadioFan (talk) 13:16, 27 June 2011 (UTC)