Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Share icon


 * 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   no consensus. Fritzpoll (talk) 19:14, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

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Does not seem to meet any of the criteria of WP:WEB, or WP:GNG. Coverage seems limited to blogs. decltype (talk) 12:17, 14 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Keep To *establish notability* in a case like a standardized icon project, greater weight should be placed on verifying actual adoption vs. raw media coverage (articles). Regardless, the icon has both. The icon has been adopted (published) by several sizable (not temporary) independent websites and applications, including princeton.edu, networkworld.com (owned by IDG, which also publishes PCWorld, MACWorld, etc), smugmug.com, shareaholic.com, etc.  These sites can be visited by anyone to verify adoption/the evidence, and hence establish notability.  To address Impact or historical significance per WP:WEB - this was part of the original wikipedia article, which was later deleted by another editor, and could be re-instated. -- Microchip911 (talk) 17:08, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * In which case one would think that coming up with non-trivial mentions of the project itself would be easy. I'm not saying they don't exist, but a fairly thorough search didn't reveal anything. auto / decltype (talk) 01:16, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Glad to highlight a couple more references from Google - Mentioned and linked from Official GeoTag Icons site, Covered in Smashing Magazine, a premier resource for web designers, Coverage of website adopting the icon in a prominent technology blog, Blog post by the creator of the standardized Geotag Icons, SmugMug.com's announcement, Google Search - Microchip911 (talk) 03:00, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

 Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions.  -- decltype (talk) 05:59, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions.  -- decltype (talk) 05:59, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so consensus may be reached.


 * Keep Google searches seem to indicate that this is indeed in use by a number of high profile sites and is a very popular project. It also appears the original 'Share icon' is now under a free license so it might make sense to expand this article to include information about both the 'Share icon' and 'Open Share icon'. From what I see this is likely to become as commonplace as the RSS icon. Tothwolf (talk) 22:19, 24 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete - coverage is not substantial, and in some cases, not even from reliable sources. -- Whpq (talk) 15:05, 25 May 2009 (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.