Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Doctor's Guide


 * 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. alpha Chimp laudare 03:17, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Doctor's Guide
This article is a non-notable, commercial website. Recommended for deletion under WP:WEB, wikipedia is not a web directory. ju66l3r 15:36, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.  --CPAScott 15:47, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom -- Whpq 16:50, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as nom ReverendG 20:47, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep -- Infodg2006 17:59, 15 August (UTC) - this site is notable; please see following link for awards and recognition: http://www.pslgroup.com/awards.htm. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.211.65.202 (talk • contribs)
 * Comment. This link for "awards" is hosted on the consulting group that publishes the website in question. Some of the award images (rehosted by pslgroup.com as opposed to linked to actual awarding bodies that might be verifiable) are for "awards" like "PHP Included"(?). Other awards are handed out like trinkets to multiple sites per day (USA Today "Hot Site" award). Others are not even given out any more and were likely awarded to the site over 10 years ago. I attempted to look up about half of the awards and could find few if any Ghits for the awards themselves (probably due to age of the award). The PSL group website also claims that Doctor's Guide receives over 1,000,000 hits per month, but Alexa doesn't even show enough traffic to track it at all. ju66l3r 03:55, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. per nom. —dima /sb.tk/ 21:17, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep --Mnodonnell 16:25, 16 August 2006 (UTC) Doctor's Guide is notable within the physician community (and with nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals). It does show up on Alexa.
 * User's only edits are to this AfD  Srose  (talk)  16:29, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

User's only edit is to this AfD ju66l3r 21:09, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: My apologies.  The site has so many root-level domains that link to it, I chose the wrong 3 to search for on Alexa.  Looking at its Alexa data suggests any notability it had simply by being on the internet has disappeared since 2003.  It still remain unnotable from the standpoint of an encyclopedia and not that of a web directory.  ju66l3r 21:09, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is a non-notable, commercial website.  It provides no independent sources.  Srose   (talk)  16:29, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - Independent sources added to listing. --Mnodonnell 17:01, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - The "independent sources" are web directories. They do not say anything about the article and are not considered non-trivial works.  Srose   (talk)  16:56, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment/Keep - The content found on Doctor's Guide is peer-reviewed medical literature. Its the same stuff one would find at a medical library.  If that's the criteria for "independent sources", then I would suggest the site is worthwhile. TSBrenner 17:31, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: If containing peer-reviewed medical literature were enough to be notable on the web, then any website parsing the PubMed RSS feed would suddenly warrant an article here.  Also realize that link provided by Srose for independent sources is for a source discussing the article's subject matter in question, not for what the site includes on it.  Peer-reviewed medical literature discussing Doctor's Guide would actually be a potentially independent source. ju66l3r 21:09, 16 August 2006 (UTC)


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