Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/W3Schools


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The result was keep. Withdrawing it. will someone pls add the refs listed here  DGG ( talk ) 20:27, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

W3Schools

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No indication of notability -- earlier versions should be examined also, such as. They contained material removed as advertising, but it might conceivably have some bearing on notability  DGG ( talk ) 17:08, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
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 * Notability: according to Alexa it is ranked the 51st most popular site in India, and world wide it is number 210. Alexa info is in the infobox and in a reference. Googling "w3schools" yields 2,820,000 results. --Cornellier (talk) 21:23, 6 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Keep: A veery popular website. One of the most popular programming / web development websites. There aren't that many articles about it as there's not that much to write about: it's simply a tutorial website. But many news articles etc. reference it. Cornellier already noted the Alexa rank and Google results. --Fixuture (talk) 21:52, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep for the reasons I gave above. --Cornellier (talk) 00:01, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Comment: I'm not going to make a definite argument yet, but I will say that this website is routinely used in various classrooms as a teaching tool. I've had it used in web based classes in two different universities. It also seems to be used as a reference in various different academic books and textbooks, as well as general "how to" books (minus of course the books published directly by W3Schools). I'm actually pretty surprised that there isn't coverage out there, since it's always seemed to be such a mainstay in web design classes. It's even a reference in this book about criminal justice information systems. I think that there could be a definite argument to be made for its impact on education, given that it's a frequently used and referenced website. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  09:19, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is an important site that became noted for being actively disliked by many professional devs back in 2011 (examples  -- that controversy generated a lot of citations and the article should be expanded to reflect that, if nothing else. I find it hard to believe there hasn't been more stuff written about a site that's been a popular destination for 20 years.  A  Train ''talk 13:29, 8 August 2016 (UTC)


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