Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The virtual wall
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[edit] The Virtual Wall
Written by user:Thevirtualwall. Undoubtedly a conflict of interest. Does it constitue spam? -- RHaworth 08:55, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
- Yeah, I'd say so. Delete as spam, open to speedy. MER-C 09:25, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
- Keep: The wiki has pages for notable websites. I think that The Virtual Wall (and/or other Vietnam memorial websites, such as Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall-USA)) should not be merged with Vietnam Veterans Memorial to reduce confusion. Snowman 11:49, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
- Keep or merge/redirect to Vietnam Veterans Memorial. A Google news search [1] comes up with four articles in four different papers, all of which are fairly recent. Two articles are mentions of it being used, the third [2] is solely about the Virtual Wall, and is copy-pasted into a second paper. I'm not quite sure if it deserves its own article, or if it should be reduced to a paragraph or two on the main memorial's article. (I'm leaning towards keep.) In any case, it should be rewritten by someone else to avoid a conflict of interest. Quack 688 12:27, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
- Delete I don't believe it passes WP:WEB, regardless of the author. Akihabara 13:02, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
- Keep or merge/redirect to Vietnam Veterans Memorial per Quack. I don't see any blatant advertising, so I don't think it's spam. Gzkn 13:46, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
- Keep. There was quite a bit of media coverage on this a while ago. --- RockMFR 16:43, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
- Keep. I'm not sure I have a voice in this forum, but I'd like to point out a few things: 1) The article is no longer a conflict-of-interest because it was completely rewritten by Snowmanradio. Thank you! He didn't even use any of my screen shots. 2)The Virtual Wall doesn't sell anything and we don't accept donations, so the article isn't advertising. 3) The Virtual Wall gets 6000 to 7000 unique visitors a day; probably more than most brick-and-mortar memorials. 4) The Virtual Wall will be 10 years old in March, it isn't just a flash-in-the-pan. Thanks for reconsidering. The Virtual Wall 04:35, 12 December 2006 (UTC) Jim Schueckler, Founder and VP of The Virtual Wall. Wikipedia username Thevirtualwall.
- Keep. The Virtual Wall meets the critera of being newsworthy. Some 12 or so major newspapers have had articles, including an article that occupied about half of page 2 of The Washington Times and a US Department of Defense publication. See links at
http://www.virtualwall.org/press/index.html#articles Thanks for reconsidering - The Virtual Wall 02:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
- Merge/Redirect Doesn't need its own article, but might do well inside Vietnam Veterans Memorial Tzaquiel 17:06, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
