Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tickle (dating service)

 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 keep (no consensus). Mindspillage (spill yours?) 12:54, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Tickle (dating service)
Advertising for non-notable dating service. --Lee Hunter 20:44, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Delete. Non-notable.  Onlyemarie 20:45, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Spamvertising. I get pop-ups for them all the time. -- 8^D  gab 20:51, 2005 Apr 26 (UTC)
 * Use Firefox, then you don't. Delete.Feydey 21:04, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Nah, pop-up blockers complicate the pop-ups I want to see (like for logging in to Westlaw. Erp. -- 8^D gab 01:54, 2005 Apr 27 (UTC)
 * Actually, this isn't an ad; it is an encyclopedic article describing notoriety of a silly dating service despite null notability. So keep it. --SuperDude 21:51, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Tickle certainly is notorious, and I'm not sure it's non-notable--170,000 google hits for +Tickle "dating service". Reluctant keep. Meelar (talk) 23:22, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I fail to understand how someone can say that an article that starts off "Tickle is a dating service that is useful, convenient and fast to use" is not an ad.  But then, it's SamuraiClinton/SuperDude, who wrote the article, so it's just more SamuraiClintoncruft. RickK 00:04, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Clean up: It is a notable dating service due to the amount of pop up ads it has. I can however see why people are voting delete, because thier fed up with the pop up ad's but I think a company as notorious for it as tickle is deserves some mention. Unfortunatley as it stands now it looks more like spam than an actual article but if someone could add to the history section it would greatly help. Deathawk 02:34, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and Clean Up. Well known Internet service for being annoying if nothing else. Capitalistroadster 02:51, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Losing the ad-speak isn't difficult.  Personally, I'd like to get my hands on the scuzzball that started placing these links on spyware.  My work computer got a particularly nasty "Tickle infection" that refused to go away.  Finally found the pesky thing and deleted it. - Lucky 6.9 04:09, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: I just got rid of the "weasel words." - Lucky 6.9 04:15, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: nonnotable, advert. Wile E. Heresiarch 05:04, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, advert. Megan1967 05:51, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, as it has been cleaned up fairly well. Connor Hill
 * Delete, ad. Radiant_* 09:11, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * keep the spam part can ususally be fixed Yuckfoo 16:41, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Article looks fairly cleaned up, and with an Alexa rating of 222 it appears notable enough.  That rating may be mainly due to spyware (I don't know), but...sigh...I guess being one of the more successful spyware infiltrators to drive up hits may be some kind of notability in and of itself.  Postdlf 23:49, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I also wonder if Tickle (website) or Tickle (online dating service) may be a better title. Meh.  Postdlf 23:50, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete wikispam--nixie 04:23, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable. An internet dating company isn't notable just because it has an Alexa rating of 222.  Quale 05:54, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Emode was a notable online quiz site for a while.  Tickle is a similar site to OkCupid, which has had over a million users.  Tickle itself claims over 20 million members. --Idont Havaname 03:28, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep'. Keep keep keep keep.  It certainly is notable.
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