Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zeal (web)


 * 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 keep. (non-admin closure) TheSandDoctor (talk) 04:42, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

Zeal (web)

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This is an old, unsourced article about a defunct web directory. Back in 2004 (before our formalized AFD process was established), there was a deletion discussion on Talk:Zeal (web), which appeared to end with a slight consensus toward keeping. However, none of the arguments for or against were grounded in any particular policies or guidelines, which likely didn't exist at the time. Since then, Wikipedia's inclusion criteria have evolved, so this deserves a re-visit. ~Anachronist (talk) 18:13, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Leaning keep. The WP:BEFORE for this one is more challenging than usual given the un-Googleable name, but you can find some reliable stuff. This Forbes article is promising, and this Search Engine Watch article suggests that Zeal was once a big deal on par with DMOZ. The current state of the article sucks and needs a cleanup. But if this was an important part of the pre-dotcom bust Web, then there's definitely potential for an encyclopedia article here.  A  Train talk 19:49, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. Zeal (which seemed to be bigger than DMOZ) said its profiles were used by many of the main search engines, such as (I think) Yahoo, in the days before search engines invented their own spiders and started presenting only extracts from "hit" sites, not the earlier summary profiles. I was a major contributor (in the top 20 numerically by points earned) and remember being pleasantly surprised to see my contributions occasionally being served up to me when I searched for something. I had indexed some Wikipedia articles before Zeal closed. Robin Patterson (talk) 00:47, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions. North America1000 03:09, 25 October 2017 (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.