Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Myriad Search

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 on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS, even discounting redlinks. -Splash^talk 23:35, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Myriad Search

Non-notable, possible link spam. Notability is not established. CHAIRBOY (☎) 22:11, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

• Delete per above. CHAIRBOY (☎) 22:11, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. It's verifiable, who cares whether or not it's notable, if it's a useful tool? ··gracefool |☺ 07:16, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Please review WP:Importance, a proposed guideline that suggests that a criteria for notability be applied. It contains some food for thought on the issue, as does the WP:Notability non-policy. To play devils advocate, if usefulness is the criteria when notability is not established, then what would stop me from writing an article about a code metrics tool I developed that's used within my organization? It is not famous, but the people who use it find it very useful. - CHAIRBOY (☎) 14:47, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

True. Some amount of notability is important (excuse the pun). ··gracefool |☺ 22:35, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

From the WP:Notability page: "The word notable is often used as a synonym of 'unique' or 'newsworthy.'" Would you deny that coverage from the #1 site covering search is a legitimate secondary source about a search engine? There are many other pages where SearchEngineWatch is listed as a reliabe and trustworthy secondary source: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:en.wikipedia.org+searchenginewatch

··seobook |☺ 11:11, 30 September 2005 (UTC

• Keep. It's a damn useful tool and although external links go to the site it isn't spam in the traditional sense of link spam on here. - Unsigned vote by 87.74.42.175
• Keep. For disclosure purposes I am the person who created the tool. The tool was profiled in Search Engine Watch Myriad Search: Meta Search Your Way. Search Engine Watch is the top search information site in the world (search Google for search engine to see Search Engine Watch rank at or near the top). ··seobook |☺ 12:55, 28 September 2005 (UTC

• User's 3rd edit

Needs more (non-sock) eyeballs. Relisting. · Katefan0^(scribble) 22:07, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

• Keep per Seoboook's evidence that it is taken seriously by a serious website. Kappa 22:53, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as per Chairboy, the SEW article not-withstanding. -- Kjkolb 03:14, 1 October 2005 (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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.