Talk:Friends Reunited

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What we need is some kind of history of Friends Reunited (who founded the web site, when, where, why). I still believe that deleting information (Friends Reunited is a British web site that has risen greatly in fame and prominence in the early 2000s) doesn't help a lot. What is so awful about the above sentence? <KF> 16:43, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)

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Friends reunited was proposed for deletion. What follows is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This part of the page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page (see above) rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was to keep the article.

commercial advertising spam. the masses have spoken. Alkivar 02:23, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Indeed. Delete. JFW | T@lk 03:09, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Move to Friends Reunited and improve. Notable UK website, often referred to in the British news. Average Earthman 09:51, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Keep An original idea for a contact website that now covers many countries incl. UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Germany & Ireland. Regularly in the UK news. Has spawned copycat sites such as Forcesreunited.org.uk lostamigos.net etc. Article needs expansion though
• Strong Keep. Does need a lot of work, but it's a massivly popular in the UK (and now internationally). Alexa ranking on friendreunited.co.uk 1,697. Darksun 11:46, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. Gets almost constant television coverage in the UK, millions have used it etc etc [[User:Xezbeth|Xezbeth]] 11:48, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Keep, at a glance; it's certainly an element of UK popular culture (the sort of thing tjhat's unsurprising to see in newspaper cartoons, &c). Shimgray 14:26, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Keep Famous in the UK, constantly in the news and offers a free service. No more "commercial advertising spam" than BBC News 24! --Sp82 17:08, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Keep - easily passes notability test -- The Anome 17:13, Nov 7, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep - Friends Reunited is becoming as popular with UK school-leavers as the school yearbook has always been with graduating high-school students in the US.

So is Classmates.com in the USA which is almost identical in function, its been speedy deleted twice. Alkivar 05:32, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Point taken. How about merging it into a new general article about "Internet Contact & Reunion Organisations"? These are definitely a new phenomenon worthy of an encyclopedia entry Adambisset 16:38, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Friends Reunited is a cultural phenomenon. It's notable on its own. It was the first of these sites and it's enormously popular in the UK. There wouldn't be a person who didn't know of it, the papers are full of stories of reunited lovers who leave their current partners etc.Dr Zen 23:03, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Au Contraire! Classmates.com was started in 1995! It was the first and remains the largest such schoolmate reunion site. Alkivar 01:33, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Keep without question. It's a phenomenon.Dr Zen 07:00, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Keep. Unfortunately it can't be ignored. zoney ♣ talk 21:56, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Keep and join in the NPOV fun. Try googling for things like "Friends Reunited" stalker[1] and keep reading through till you get to things like this.. actually I didn't manage to find a good stalker story yet. That would be notable in its self. Mozzerati 22:28, 2004 Nov 11 (UTC)

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