Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mediabizbloggers


 * 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. Cirt (talk) 11:03, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Mediabizbloggers

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Does not appear to pass WP:WEBSITE Tim1357 (talk) 00:50, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete: I can't find significant coverage for this website. Joe Chill (talk) 02:05, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

The site is covered and cited by many publications including NPR, The LA Times NBC Affiliates, Entertainment Weekly and Large Regional Publications:

http://topics.npr.org/article/00bOa1b52S80E http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/08/12/ask-ausiello-spoilers-on-house-true-blood-more/ http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/08/glenn-beck-ignores-ad-boycott.html http://topics.dallasnews.com/article/0aSh3CQ2kMa3c http://sec.floridatoday.com/article/0aSh3CQ2kMa3c http://sec.wbir.com/article/0aSh3CQ2kMa3c http://www.daylife.com/article/0dBC7IL8qZee1 http://topics.ocregister.com/article/05wGfGB2Tpe96 http://www.msg.com/breakingnews/?article=0bho8pnfW778a

The site has also interviewed Jimmy Wales himself in the past

http://www.jackmyers.com/commentary/guest-mediabizbloggers/78216392.html

Morgankelps (talk) 02:27, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions.  -- • Gene93k (talk) 16:18, 1 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Note that according to google, most of the (130) references to the site are from Jack Myers (the creator of the blog). see here
 * —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tim1357 (talk • contribs) 05:05, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Note that is a highly inaccurate count you need to exclude jackmyers.com in the query string to get an accurate count which appears to be closer to 329. see here also according to Matt Cutts of Google:

"“The short answer is that historically, we only had room for a very small percentage of backlinks because web search was the main part and we didn't have a ton of servers for link colon queries and so, we have doubled or increased the amount of backlinks that we show over time for link colon, but it is still a sub-sample. It's a relatively small percentage. And I think that that's a pretty good balance, because if you just automatically show a ton of backlinks for any website then spammers or competitors can use that to try to reverse engineer someone's rankings." http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-link-command-busting-the-myths

Thus the reported count in Google accounts for only a small fraction of the actual links in their index and not a fair measure. Also the quality of the link is of higher importance than the count. Morgankelps (talk) 04:43, 4 December 2009 (UTC)  Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Tim Song (talk) 00:14, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Delete This blog fails WP:N because it is not the subject of any independent sources. No significant thrid party coverage means delete. Angryapathy (talk) 17:02, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

The LA Times and many of the content sources listed above are all independent sources and significant 3rd party sources. Morgankelps (talk) 21:35, 7 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Comment I did some digging, seeing as most of the links Morgan has provided link to Jack Myers, and left me wondering, "Why doesn't he have a WP page, since this refers to him more than the company?" Well, I found it had been deleted before: . This seems like an end run around avoiding the same title, and thus avoid deletion. And again, none of the links above actually discuss Mediabizbloggers, but redirect to stories from the site. Angryapathy (talk) 22:08, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
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