Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gaia Online

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Unanimous keep. Titoxd^(?!?) 03:35, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Gaia Online

(Since the original nominating editor didn't make a page here, I will, so this can be resolved and dealt with.) Trisk 08:29, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

• Please Keep - This is my fav Wikipedia article, this is how i found wikipedia. If this is removed pages for all online communities and games should be removed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.25.150.178 (talk • contribs) --JiFish(Talk/Contrib).
• Keep - Gaia Online is the largest internet forum of any genre, with over 2 million registered accounts. It's significant, popular, and it very much a part of the internet community these days. The article is significant, informative, and worth keeping. - Trisk 08:29, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - Gaia Online supports a HUGE user base, and has tens of thousands of posts daily. It has boards for almost any topic imaginable, and a thriving community on only a slightly less order than Neopets. I suspect the initial nomination was done in bad faith, hence why the original nominating editor didn't make a page. Nezu Chiza 09:32, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Bigger than NeoPets. Good God Man! All your children are belong to us Qaz ^(talk) 10:00, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep - bad faith nomination by User:69.193.44.60 (also see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Final Fantasy.) --JiFish(Talk/Contrib) 12:09, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep we do usually delete forums, but this one is huge and seems notable. Alexa rank 1,551. Although not quite perfect, this article is a pretty good example of how a forum article should be done. Note the absense of typical cruft/trivial material: no lists of admins, no details of personal conflicts, etc. It's all fairly tight and encyclopedic in tone. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 12:44, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep: it seems to be notable enough, although the article does need an overhaul - it's little more than a collection of dot-points.--Cyberjunkie | Talk 13:55, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep: the deletion suggestion does not even give a reason (there probably is none). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sindri (talk • contribs).
• Speedy keep for reasons already listed. --Idont Havaname 02:03, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep: Gaia Online is a site with notable features that has drawn a significantly gigantic community. The user who put it up for deletion nomination seems to be doing it out of malice. The same user (as pointed out by JiFish) also seems to have made an article attempting to promote his/her own website, so my guess his/her reason being (or part of his/her reason) is basically out of "competitive" bias. Shadowolf 08:23, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
  • More likely to prove a point. --JiFish(Talk/Contrib) 13:07, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep - I don't see how any sane person could seriously consider deleting an article such as this.--Atlantima 02:16, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - It's very much notable, as much as I hate it. Musteval 03:35, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - I just went there and their General Discussion forum alone had more than the first 25 pages with threads posted in today or yesterday. It's the most mind boggling forum I've seen on the net, and should be listed here for the reason it may be the largest community on the Internet alone. I dislike some parts of it, such as the totally uninformative list of NPC names which seemed very much insignificant. -- Jugalator 08:25, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - A site of this size is noteworthy. —Hobart 08:30, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - What a bad nomination. And I fail to see any "delete" votes as of yet. Deleting this page would call for the deletion of all forum-based wikipedia pages. Calicore 19:49, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
• Please Keep - This page is a helpful informant to the 2,702,092(as of 10/16/05) registered users of Gaia online. Having this article on Wikipedia also helps explain one of the most popular online games to non-users. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.32.165.171 (talk • contribs) --JiFish(Talk/Contrib).
• Keep - Until GameFAQs or NeoPets gets deleted, this has every right to be here. --Neonecron 01:30, 18 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.