Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison of web hosting services


 * 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 per WP:NOT. Carlosguitar (ready and willing) 08:13, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Comparison of web hosting services

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Invites WP:OR and likely to become a link farm for NN hosts. Appears Web hosting service can sufficiently cover this area in an encyclopedic verifyable manner. Hu12 (talk) 21:26, 16 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep it please. It's only been here a day or so. Please give it a chance to become a good article. See Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients for a similar established article. Also note that saying it invites original research doesn't mean it has original research. If there are a lot of problematic links added, we can remove them. --Vergency (talk) 21:57, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete, it looks more like spam than anything else, and it's not even complete. This is not the place for this kind of content. GO-PCHS-NJROTC (talk) 22:45, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions.   --  Wisdom89  ( T |undefined  /  C ) 23:09, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. We usually draw the line by allowing certain lists of products, but not lists of services. Web hosting services are definitely out, though: there are far too many to list even a small subset, and they change constantly. Both of these factors, as well as spam concerns, make it impossible for us to maintain this list. There are plenty of other web sites which maintain catalogs of web hosts. Zetawoof(&zeta;) 23:24, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep. WP:OR seems to be the main complaint, yet it doesn't appear in the article.  As for changing constantly, I suggest that infant services not be listed.  E.g. the four currently listed are each well established.  --Jesdisciple (talk) 00:41, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I see no complaints regarding the Oversight privilege here. Perhaps you mean something else? Zetawoof(&zeta;) 00:45, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I think it was OR :) --Vergency (talk) 00:47, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * In any case, the other page referenced was a list of invalid reasons for speedy deletion. AFD would be perfectly appropriate for deleting a page full of original research. This isn't really the complaint being voiced here, though. Zetawoof(&zeta;) 00:50, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, and I'm trying to correct that... --Jesdisciple (talk) 00:59, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. per my nom. Clearly fails NOT. "Wikipedia articles should not exist only to describe the nature, appearance or services a website offers..". Web hosting service can sufficiently cover this area in an "encyclopedic verifyable manner". Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, so many things that do not belong in an encyclopedia (such as Comparison of web hosting services) are excluded or removed. An encyclopedia should, by definition, be informative and useful to its readers, this is neither.--Hu12 (talk) 01:24, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * It is very useful, as it tells readers the difference between major services in an easy to read table. --Vergency (talk) 01:29, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree... The directories that I have found don't directly compare the services. --Jesdisciple (talk) 20:07, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * See, for example http://www.free-webhosts.com/. There are plenty of comparison sites on the net. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 11:31, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per User:Hu12. Fails NOT Chris!  c t 03:09, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. I'm surprised to see this AfD, because I prod'd it shortly after creation. The creator wrote "I'm just making this page so I can watch it" on the talk page, so I didn't think there would be any objection. Delicious carbuncle (talk) 03:15, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I was talking about the talk page. --Jesdisciple (talk) 20:07, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Per Delicious carbuncle. There are other sites that do that, so put a link on Web hosting service. Plus, there's very little chance of this being complete. Regarding Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients, software is (marginally) less changing than web hosting services. -anabus_maximus (Talk to me) 02:48, 21 March 2008 (UTC)


 * 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.