Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Veritas Society

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. After removing those participating with a clear agenda, the consensus to delete is pretty clear. -Splash^talk 00:35, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Veritas Society

Non-notable website, Alexa rating of 2,700,000, possible vanity. Delete. Kuzaar 15:11, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Tom Harrison ^Talk 16:53, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete pn. I did laugh in a most puerile fashion when I read "stimulate their members" though! Ha. :D Dan 17:45, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as non-notable website. —Quarl ^(talk) 2006-01-04 02:37Z
• Keep. Seriously, what's non-notable? Go through the Category:Organizations page and tell me what makes those notable and not the Veritas Society, with over 3000 members. The Veritas Society's "Alexa rating" is higher than The Cricket Society, the Kwan Um School of Zen, and the Soto Zen Buddhist Association. It's also 65 times the size of the Lebanese Club at MIT, and clearly draws more traffic and with a higher pagerank than Nerds With Attitude. It more than fills the established standards for notable organizations. If the first page is written badly, just fix it and keep it when there's an actual organization to be described. MattKolter 05:30, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
  • As far as I can see, all of these organizations were formally founded outside of the internet, which to my knowledge the "Veritas Society" cannot claim. This is why the Alexa rating, inconsequential for a number of those societies you listed, is an important factor in deciding how notable this article's subject is. -Kuzaar 14:03, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Also, the Google Test returns less than 100 unique hits, as compared to 12,800 for The Cricket Society or 35,000 for the Kwan Um School of Zen. Being that the article's subject originated apparently on a forum, it's a safe bet to assume that our subject here is non-notable. -Kuzaar 14:03, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Chick Bowen 00:29, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I fail to see how an society that has affected 3000 members and even more visitors can't be considered notable. Orthas
  • Comment. See Orthas. Dan 18:17, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I agree with the above statement. Kiz
  • Comment. See Kiz. Dan 18:17, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep As do I. Wil —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.170.48.237 (talk • contribs).
• Keep I just hope people don't vote delete purely because they don't like the site... Talyn —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.133.10.89 (talk • contribs).
• Keep Looks notable to me... Creature —The preceding unsigned comment was added by CreatureOfLegend (talk • contribs).
  • Comment. We aren't considering deletion because we don't like the site. Maybe because we've never heard of it or maybe never seen it. It just doesn't appear notable enough to deserve a WP article. If you people above can provide evidence to the effect that it meets WP:WEB then maybe you might have more chance. Dan 18:05, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Alexa rating of 2,700,000 just doesn't cut it. --kingboyk 20:24, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep I agree with orthas awell —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Noj (talk • contribs).
  • Comment See Noj. Kuzaar 14:08, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
• Comment From what I can tell, an unsigned contribution by 144.136.59.238 (probably a sockpuppet) was deleted from this point. The edit history is a bit confusing so I've given up. --kingboyk 10:40, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
  • 'Comment Kingboyk - It was deleted by the author, due to a change of opinion.
• Comment I'd like to call into question all of these people who've registered just to vote on this AFD, either as sockpuppets or an attempt to rig the vote via their forum. Namely, Orthas and everyone who voted keep after them. Also, as an aside, it's an alexa RANKING. Lower is better. A rating of 2,700,000 denotes an extremely low volume of traffic. Therefore, this webpage doesn't meet ANY of the criteria for notability. Kuzaar 14:03, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
• keep. notable. Kingturtle 06:41, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as not notable. Might I add at this point that I count 7 legitimate votes to delete and 2 legitimate votes to keep. VegaDark 23:41, 8 January 2006 (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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.