Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Know-how Wiki

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete.

2 users clearly voted "delete". One clearly voted "keep". A number of others added insightful comments but chose to abstain from a final decision. This (barely) meets our generally accepted threshold for deletion. Rossami (talk) 03:57, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Know-how Wiki
Very recent development, which makes it not have encyclopedic relevance. Further, the site to which the article refers to has been down for weeks. --Stevietheman 18:29, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Seems like advertising to me. Thryduulf 19:23, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Not Sure I made some contributions to know-how wiki. I seem to remember reading about know-how wiki in a newspaper article too, so it could regarded as 'well-known'. It was quite a clever idea of a wiki (unusual approach for formatting the information), and a free and open resource just like wikipedia. As for whether wikipedia should have a article on it... I guess that depends. I don't know what the normal policy is on articles about websites. Also the website is offline at the moment (has been for a month or so), which I guess counts against it! -- Nojer2 23:59, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree the idea behind the site has great potential, and I hope something else like it springs up... just think, an open "How to do everything" manual. However, this particular effort was very new and that also tends to be a strike against encyclopedic relevance. --Stevietheman 06:35, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment If the wiki were still live, I'd lean toward inclusion on the basis that, well, our bar for wikis should be a little bit lower than for other web phenomena. I get the message "Forbidden: You don't have permission to access /~paquetse/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi on this server," though, which suggests that at the moment it basically doesn't exist, in which case I don't think it merits and article. No vote yet. Dpbsmith (talk) 01:39, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm shocked that that statement has gone unchallenged for 2.5 days! Yes, Wiki is in some sense the religion, or at least passion, of WP editors. But that only emphasizes the PoV involved in saying "Wikis are special in WP."  Special in the WP: namespace, fine; they must not be treated any differently from other software topics in the article namespace. --Jerzy(t) 15:51, 2005 Jan 22 (UTC)
 * Retain Know-How Wiki was running up until at least December 2004, when it was being hit very heavily by wiki spam. I assume the site owners had to take it down because the spam overloaded the site. The article could be updated to reflect those facts. It seemed like a useful idea for a Wiki and had some interesting content. The site may be gone, but the concept has not. If removed then we are erasing history. -- kiwiinapanic 08:55, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * But a question still remains: Was Know-how Wiki notable enough before it went down? --Stevietheman 16:55, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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