Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Doctor Who Online


 * 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. —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-12 01:14Z 

Doctor Who Online

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Website with claims of popularity, but Alexa ranking is below 530,000. Seems to fail WP:WEB. Contested speedy. NawlinWiki 19:05, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:WEB--is not the subject of multiple non-trivial press mentions.-MsHyde 21:02, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep I cleaned up the article a little but it needs more. Right now, that Sci Fi Channel article is the only independent source, but judging by what it says and the numbers the BBC provides about the number of people using this ten-year old site, I really think more sources are out there waiting to be found.  I suspect this was one of the author's first articles and that the author might be a younger person.  I think it would be in the spirit of Wikipedia to at least try to improve this article. House of Scandal 11:57, 8 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete This article reads as a promotional press release with only a "website of the week" cutting as its single source. I also dispute House of Scandal's quote above about "the numbers the BBC provides about the number of people using this ten-year old site" - there is no exact source given for this citation. Using the BBC website's own search engine I could find no results for this site's name. Doctor Who has literally hundreds of fan-run websites. For this page to justify its claims of "extremely popular", "very active", "very secure" there must be at least some reliable independent sources cited as proof. --The Missing Hour 12:44, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Nareklm  21:08, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Fails WP:WEB.  Compare Articles for deletion/Unitnews, another Doctor Who fan site with a higher Alexa ranking (264,984 as opposed to 547,713), which was also deleted.  By contrast, Outpost Gallifrey, a Doctor Who fansite with an article that passes WP:WEB, has an Alexa ranking of 32,403, an entire order of magnitude higher. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 07:11, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as above. The "spirit of Wikipedia" should not be bandied about in the face of established guidelines for inclusion. Eusebeus 15:11, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete agreed with above, reads too much like an advert for a website A wikipedia member with an awful username


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