User talk:JDWRudy25

View From Heaven
A tag has been placed on View From Heaven, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable (see the guidelines for notability here). If you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please affix the template  to the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself.

Please read the criteria for speedy deletion (specifically, article #7) and our general biography criteria. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Bubba hotep 21:58, 7 November 2006 (UTC)


 * You may want to read WP:WEB, our notability standards for websites. With less than a few hundred reviews, it does not look like your website is remotely in the running. Fan-1967 22:19, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Actually, it was the 9 registered users that did it for me. But what do I know? I feel another AfD coming on. Bubba hotep 22:23, 7 November 2006 (UTC)


 * No one has claimed the site is not "legit". Nor has anyone accused it of being an advertisement. The problem is that the site is not Notable, and it certainly appears that at its height it was never even close to being what we would consider a notable website. There are literally tens of thousands of sites where people post their opinions about games. This is (was) one of them. Fan-1967 22:33, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
 * If you wish to keep a record of your site, by all means do so. There are dozens of sites available where you can post anything you want, with no limitations at all. Freewebs, geocities, myspace, tons more. None of them have standards or limits that would prevent you from posting this material. It just doesn't meet Wikipedia's standards. It's not my choice. If I don't tag it for deletion, or Bubba doesn't, someone else will, I can promise you. There's no way the article will be kept. I advise you to save a copy on your somputer if you plan to post it elsewhere. Fan-1967 22:45, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Anecdote time: I once created a website with a niche (read cult, if you will) audience - it attained around 24k hits in around six months (not bad, I might add for a UK niche/cult website) and was recognised by the local press and radio. I pulled the plug on it myself. It is still around somewhere, but the point is to those whom it matters, they still find it, it's on my AOL member pages AND ''I would never dream of putting it on Wikipedia... maybe, on my user page... NO! not even on my user page... it's too big. ;) Bubba hotep 23:00, 7 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Maybe I should clarify this. The problem is not that the article does not meet standards. The problem is that the website does not meet the standards to have an article. Nothing you do to the article can change that. Notable websites get tens (or hundreds) of thousands of clicks per day. Notable websites get hundreds of articles written about them in major publications. Notable websites have hundreds or thousands of links to them from other sites. I'm sorry, but yours isn't even on the radar by those standards. Fan-1967 23:09, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

And to make my points clearer, through the haze of nostalgia: I had a website which was notable - but only to a few thousand people within a select area. I now keep it on a free server which is designed for indiscriminate collections of trivia - unlike Wikipedia, which is not. I merely stated that I pulled the plug because I'm like that. If something gets too big, that's it, I'm out. But I don't feel the world needs to know about it. Bubba hotep 23:22, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

AfD Nomination: View From Heaven
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia! We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but all Wikipedia articles must meet our criteria for inclusion (see What Wikipedia is not and Deletion policy). Since it does not seem to me that View From Heaven meets these criteria, I have started a discussion about whether this article should be kept or deleted.

Your opinion on whether this article meets the inclusion criteria is welcome. Please contribute to the discussion by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/View From Heaven. Don't forget to add four tildes ( ~ ) at the end of each of your comments to sign them.

Discussions such as these usually last five days. In the meantime, you are free to edit the content of the article. Please do not remove the "articles for deletion" template (the box at the top). When the discussion has concluded, an administrator will consider all comments and decide whether or not to delete the article. Bubba hotep 11:14, 8 November 2006 (UTC)