Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zaadz

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The result was keep, seems to meet WP:WEB, but article needs massive, massive cleanup. --- Deville (Talk) 01:07, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Zaadz

Website that makes no assertion of notability per WP:WEB. Only references cited are pages on the site itself, and some blogs. Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 05:59, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Alexa ranking of 7,987; almost 2 million Ghits for "Zaadz". NawlinWiki 11:39, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Won Best Conscious Community award in VegNews Magazine's VegWebby Awards 2006. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zephyr2k (talk • contribs).
• Keep Website featured in What is Enlightenment magazine: "From MySpace to OurWorld."[1]—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mvoltron (talk • contribs).
• Delete per nom. The reason we cite Google hits is because the number is indicative often of notability, IF the hits show notability. In this case, there are 2.4 million Ghits, BUT the hits are mostly the site's membership dutifully recited by Google's spiders (i.e., "smith@Zaadz"). I see a couple of articles cited above - I will note What Is Enlightenment magazine is a quarterly webzine, hum, maybe. But VegNews magazine's honor is not what I'd call a nationally-recognized one. There is a link to what appears to be a Wall Street Journal article, but the story only mentions Zaadz in passing (their CEO was at some meeting that was covered by WSJ, and the website gets no other mention). The website therefore fails WP:WEB for lacking multiple non-trivial third-party articles, nor shows nationally-known awards, nor is the content distributed by a site well-known and independent of the creators. Tychocat 04:45, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, what tripe, per Tychocat. Three keep votes here, I don't know where this is coming from.-Kmaguir1 09:18, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Keep The VfD nomination and some comments missed the fact that "What is Enlightenment" is a print publication celebrating a 15-year anniversary, and they highlighted the Zaadz article on their cover - hardly trivial. There are thousands of passionate people contributing to the Zaadz community, which I think means it merits serious attention. The Alexa score demonstrates much more interest than the vast majority of Internet sites, impressive after such a short existance. You can expect places like this to be underrepresented in the mainstream media, who see them as competitors on various levels. --NealMcB 19:14, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Cleanup, remove sections which make it look like an advertisement. See Facebook for an example of a good SNS article. Ashibaka tock 21:55, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and Cleanup per nealmcb and Ashibaka.--Crossmr 23:42, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete What propagandizing crap! This is hucksterism from a hucksterising social website THAT PAYS BLOGGERS, like ~C4Chaos www.coolmel.com to product-place their website in his blog. It is not merely that what's written is non-objective fiction, it is vastly inappropriate in an encyclopedia. --172.193.254.8 06:47, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Regardless of their practicies, it doesn't dimiss the coverage and site rank. We're not here to pass judgement on a given subject, see WP:NPOV.--Crossmr 13:13, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

• Keep, site appears notable. — goethean ॐ 18:45, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

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