Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WPI Campus Map

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 of the debate was delete. Mailer Diablo 21:22, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WPI Campus Map

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Delete. Does not meet notability for software. Search in Google brings up 8 unique results, none of which have to do with the program. Was tagged for speedy delete earlier by TenOfAllTrades. ... discospinster 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete- per nom. DVD+ R/W 21:00, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

• KeepYou people have failed to provide substantial evidence for deletion of this page. I am in full support of the existence of this page. Free encyclopedia = people can post what they desire. -Brad Scoville —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.215.226.172 (talk • contribs) 21:32, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

• KeepGoogle is currently crawling our new site. The domain is only a few days old. I am all for this site and those who want this to be deleted provide no reason why it should be deleted. -Josh —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.215.226.218 (talk • contribs) 21:35, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

• KeepThis page represents the work of four students at a club at WPI, Worcester Polytechnic Institute for the Game Development Club. It is a small article for now, but as the map grows, so will the article. We have already had several public demonstrations of the map and therefore a public interest has been created. A interest leads to questions which drives people to seek answers, and WikiPedia is where they look.-Matt Murdy WPI ECE 2009 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pb59 (talk • contribs) .

• KeepBeing the lead developer of the WPI Map, I can confirm the credibility of the information being presented in this Wiki. The site wpimap.com was recently launched and is gaining popularity quickly.-Alex Schwartz WPI IMGD 2009 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.215.226.101 (talk • contribs) .

• Delete What "will" happen is unknowable. Fails notability now. Fan1967 21:05, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. --ManiF 21:28, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Although the site looks very good and its creators can justifiably take pride in their accomplishments, wikipedia is not for things such as this as it fails WP:WEB. Bucketsofg 21:32, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

• Keep WPI is a well known institution. As a result, there are many visitors to our real campus and WPI hosts a pdf of the the campus called "WPI Campus Map" and this is what is being brought up in the google search when you search for their article name. They are a group of students working hard to start something new. Although they may have their own website, if you follow the links on the site, they link to other sites, both about halo as well as WPI's own site. I attend WPI and know for a fact that the information on their site was also on WPI's "well known and independent" site. As a member of the GDC, I know that we will be updating our site (which is a subdomain of WPI's own site) to reflect and validate the information on their site.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.215.33.117 (talk • contribs) .

• Keep Complies with Wikipedia Regulations as cited previously - GMB—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Joeshlub (talk • contribs) .

• Keep I Alex support Brad, Matt, Josh and Alex and all of their hard work with the WPI Campus Map and firmly believe that the article shoud stay up. I am also a student here at WPI.

-Alex Steinwachs—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.215.226.170 (talk • contribs).

• Keep I Matt Beaty support Brad, Matt, Josh and Alex and all of their hard work with the WPI Campus Map and firmly believe that the article shoud stay up. I am also a student here at WPI.

-Matt Beaty —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.215.226.233 (talk • contribs) .

• Comment This is not WPIpedia. Fan1967 22:11, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
• Comment It isn't your site either. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pb59 (talk • contribs) .

Comment No, it isn't. But it doesn't appear that this is of interest to anybody outside WPI. Fan1967 22:53, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - Per nom. This article is also written as self-promotion. WP:VAIN --Valermos 22:16, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

• Strong delete. The keep votes appear to be from the four developper (plus one possible IP sockpuppet). Shameless advertisement. Tony Bruguier 23:10, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

• Strong delete, per WP:NFT. Alphax ^τεχ 23:24, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Anything but advertisement, we are linked to by another website which gets thousands of unique visitors per day. We do not need Wikipedia to advertise for us as we are getting plenty of hits without it. Wikipedia is more than an encyclopedia; it has become more of an online repository for information and hence has become a place which people turn to for answers. People who are hear about a Halo Map of WPI are not just going to think of going to WPIMap.com for information, but rather are going to look it up on the "internet knowledgebase", Wikipedia. "This article is also written as self-promotion." to answer that, I quote Wikipedia "Furthermore, an article is not "vanity" simply because it was written by its subject" Also, at WPI, most of the IP addresses are similar due to the fact that we all recieve static outside IP addresses. The above "shameless" accusation against "the four developers" each only voted once. The other votes are from students around us and therefore they will have similar addresses. As for some of the votes appearing the same, I talked to the person (Matt Beaty) about what he wrote and he said that he didn't feel like writing something different, but still supported the article. I am not selfish and do not appreciate being called dishonest.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pb59 (talk • contribs) .

• Quoting Wikipedia, the following paragraph of WP:VAIN, "The key rule is to not write about yourself, nor about the things you've done or created. If they are encyclopedic, somebody else will notice them and write an article about them." --Valermos 23:44, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:VANITY and WP:SPAM. Some points: Brad does not understand the purpose of the project; people can't just "post what they desire", read WP:NOT throughly. An article written in the first person is a sure tipoff to us that it shouldn't exist. This project already has its own web site, why should they pimp themselves on Wikipedia? Merge some content to Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Morgan Wick 00:01, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Pretty cool idea, actually, but it fails all the various WP: criteria listed above. Doesn't belong on Wikipedia. Colonel Tom 01:35, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete -- no context given (though I'm operating under the assumption that WPI==Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts), nn, WP:NOT a promotional venue, unlikely to ever achieve any reasonable stance of notability. Get back to us when you've written the next CounterStrike, by which I mean you know it a year after it's come out that it's smashed sales records, not the moment it goes golden master off your hard drive. Haikupoet 01:59, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Delete Got nothing against WPI, but we certainly don't need a map of it on Wikipedia -- Hirudo 02:31, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete: we don't need a page for every map that someone creates for Halo or Half-Life. Please ignore the sockpuppets. --Hetar 03:43, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete What Hetar said. Eusebeus 09:02, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as showcase of an original project, as per WP:NOT. Robin Johnson 15:50, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:NFT. Stifle (talk) 15:45, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Vanity, Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day, Wikipedia is not a crystal ball ("map that may become popular"), etc. --TheKoG (talk|contribs) 15:51, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

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