Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PUMB

 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. Postdlf 09:41, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

PUMB
Message board. Doesn't seem notable. Fredrik | talk 06:32, 3 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete -- Non english site. - Longhair | Talk 07:54, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. "Non-english" is not a reason to delete, but non-notable is. Sjakkalle 09:44, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
 * keep Very active board, and yes it really does have an astonishing number of users (now nearly 5000,  growing all the time). --Tony Sidaway|Talk
 * Big Boards lists about 1100 forums with over 5000 users, and that is not even a complete catalog of web forums. I think you should adjust your definition of "astonishing" ;) - Fredrik | talk 13:19, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Possibly. I find boards with around 200 users just about manageable. 5000+ is surreal. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 15:16, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. As internet forums go, 5000 users really isn't that many.  My benchmark for notability is ocforums, a forum that isn't strongly attached to any particular website.  As of right now, it has 55,900 members, 160 of them online, with 200 anonymous users browsing the forums.  For contrast, the PUMB forums (if I'm correct in what numbers are what; I don't read Chinese) have 4800 members, with 6 of them online, and 12 anonymous users.  --Carnildo 21:07, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Adjust your benchmark. There are many, many forums that we could make perfectly good encyclopedia articles about that don't have 160 people online at a time. Rapture Ready forum, Infidels Forum.  This isn't a willy-size contest, it's just a test to see if it has more than a tiny coterie of regular users.  It does, which means people will want to read about it. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 21:30, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, forum promo. Megan1967 11:08, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Wikipedia is not a web directory, no exceptional notability to counter that rule. -- The Anome 11:15, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
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