Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2006-10-31 UK Thrash

Mediation Case: 2006-10-31 UK Thrash
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Request Information
Request made by: Monk of the highest order 06:20, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Where is the issue taking place?

The article UK Thrash and its talk page.

Who's involved?

User:Monk of the highest order, User:Craig Watson

What's going on?

Craig Watson has more or less innocently made a page advertising his website, unknowing of the standards of notability on wikipedia. After asking him about this, to prove that the community website UK thrash is notable, Craig put up some statistics, such as the 200 users on his web forum.

What would you like to change about that?

I am almost certain the website is non-noticable, and as I noted in the talk page, it still doesn't meet the guidelines for web notability despite the quoted statistics. However I would like someone to verify this, and perhaps assure the well-meaning Mr. Watson, on his talk page, that this isn't just me being mean: he should not be advertising his website on wikipedia. I'd like to reassure him that wikipedia is a place of community-fueled reason and cooperation, and his article isn't going to be deleted because we're a bunch of jerks going on authoritative power trips.

That said, it wasn't such a terrible mistake to make, and perhaps, if you could User_talk:assure him that although his website shouldn't be on here, everyone makes mistakes like this at first, that would perhaps be helpful to not scare him away.

Mediator response
Not a MedCab member (yet), but I figured I could take care of this one by providing a third-party comment and engaging the editors to try and handle the situation. If I'm doing something wrong with commenting here, let me know, someone, please. =) Tony Fox (arf!) 21:29, 31 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I think I'm just going to close this case; the creator of the page has been engaged, I've provided some guidance to key guidelines and suggested he get some additional sources in. My intention was to give him a couple of days to do so, then send the article to AfD, but it's been speedy tagged, so whatever happens happens at this point. Either way, no further mediation is really necessary. Tony Fox (arf!) 16:58, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

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