Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fusible.com


 * 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. —Tom Morris (talk) 22:35, 19 December 2011 (UTC)

Fusible.com

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For a so important blog, you would expect more then 46.000 internet hits and 8 Google News hits. Looks like promo to me, especially due to the COI. Night of the Big Wind talk  01:15, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - Lacks sufficient WP:RS to support WP:CORP or WP:GNG. Happy Editing! &mdash;  04:53, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete- Not blatant enough to clear G11, yet the conflict of interest does raise a red flag. A look at the user's talk page revealed the account is blocked indef, apparently for the COI. The main point of the article seems to be that, through the subject website's research, it discovered a secret Microsoft project. Not much at all to assert the subject website's notability. Tarheel95 (Sprechen) 13:02, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions.  • Gene93k (talk) 13:49, 12 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Keep - The intention is not for promo but there are many tech blogs listed in Wikipedia. Go to Google News and enter "Fusible" and there are nearly 200 hits as of 12 Dec 2011.  The site is mentioned as the lead source in Techmeme nearly a dozen times and averages 1 to 2 mentions per month on average in Techmeme. http://www.techmeme.com/search/query?q=sourceurl%3Afusible.com It has been cited hundreds of times by Google News Listed sites. See Press Room page for references http://fusible.com/press-room/ Dozens of stories have been broke by Fusible like Google's Photovine, James Bond Skyfall, title and many more stories.  Is it not notable to regularly be cited by Google News listed sites and the first to break tech stories on a regular basis?  Editing was blocked temporarily because the username has to be changed.--Littledevilmedia (talk) 00:24, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment: The problem with the links on your press page is that most of them are just one-line mentions of/links to the blog. What Wikipedia needs is substantial coverage of the site in reliable publications. It's not an arbitrary decision, it's so we can use it to verify facts about the site. One-line mentions or links don't help us verify anything other than that you get cited by other blogs. Steven Walling &bull; talk   04:06, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. COI issues aside, a relatively new site that has received some coverage, but not enough to be considered significant. Techmeme is a news aggregator site rather than an actual news site and doesn't contribute to any notability. Яehevkor ✉ 20:09, 15 December 2011 (UTC)
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