Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/One National Gay & Lesbian Archives


 * 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 of the debate was keep. -- BD2412 talk July 4, 2005 01:03 (UTC)

One National Gay & Lesbian Archives
~300 Google hits. Alexa rank 5,000,000+. I'd say it isn't notable. --Xcali 05:52, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep (and send to cleanup). As their website says: "The ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives [ONE Archives] houses the world's largest research library on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered heritage and concerns." This is a notable archive of historical material that would not necessarily "score" well using either Google, or Alexa, especially since very little of the collection is online. It should be kept. Blank Verse   &empty;   10:18, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete, on notability grounds. --Scimitar 14:39, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 16:49, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: I'm not against our having an article on it, but not if we can't assess its notability.  Those in favor of keeping it, please give us some indication that the site's claims are true, that it has some traffic.  The Alexa rank won't really lie in this case.  It doesn't appear that, as a web site, it's particularly used. Geogre 18:03, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Here's a statement about its status at USC. There's a contact email address and phone number for a Lynn Sipe at USC. Seems straightforward enough. It's ridiculous to expec that an archive of this nature would have a high Alexa ranking.  It isn't a popular media website. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 21:41, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Seems to be trivial. CalJW 19:07, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep if the claims are true.    &mdash; P Ingerson (talk) 21:45, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, trivially so. James F. (talk) 22:17, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. There seems to be some confusion here.  As I understand it, the article is not about the website, it is about the archives.  My understanding has been that Alexa rankings are primarily used to judge the notability of web sites per se.  The fact that the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library website has an Alexa ranking of 1,503,886 does not comment on the notability of the library, for example. --Tabor 00:01, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per User:BlankVerse. JamesBurns 06:31, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I see no reason for delete. Needs a bit of work though. AlexR 11:20, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.