Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hong Kong Golden Forum (2nd)

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 no consensus to delete. Giving this article the benefit of the doubt... but if references can't be found by a third afd... it really needs to go (the first afd was so long ago it's not really relevent) W.marsh 16:57, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hong Kong Golden Forum

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Fails WP:WEB/WP:V. Probably should have been deleted the first time it was nominated here. No sources given in the article and only 12 google hits. Wickethewok 21:24, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Only 3 if you -wikipedia. -Royalguard11(Talk·Desk·Review Me!) 00:24, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• Very strong keep. hkgolden.com has an Alexa ranking of 789 (Alexa also shows almost all of the site traffic going to the forums). There are almost CERTAINLY sources that can be found for this, albeit in a language most of us can't read. --- RockMFR 05:29, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. As suggested by the opinion above, plus the notability issues. There are over 140,000 registered members there, and possibly more visiters. The Verifibility issues can (and should, IMO) be rectified by cleaning up the article)--which is not necessary to be deleted. --Blackhawk charlie2003 11:03, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
• Delete nonverifiable notability. Mukadderat 16:21, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep per RockMFR and Blackhawk Charlie. I strongly suspect that the above Google test was NOT conducted in any sort of Chinese language, and the results would be very different if it were. Otherwise, it seems an informative and balanced good-faith (non-spam) article on some details of the web-culture of a highly-trafficked forum. --Arvedui 01:44, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, home of the Internet meme The Bus Uncle. - Mailer Diablo 12:37, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
• keep and please help reverse systemic bias Yuckfoo 00:55, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

• So there's systemic bias against websites? I'm gonna have to go and disagree there. Anyways, is there a specific policy to follow if the information can't be verified by an English speaker and no speaker of the subject's language steps forward? Wickethewok 06:54, 9 November 2006 (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.