Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WAYN

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 keep --Ichiro 07:10, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WAYN

Non-notable and appears to be spam. See spam reports at [1]. Ashibaka tock 19:49, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

• Keep but expand. Website has an Alexa ranking of 10,000 or better. It actually has a rank of 2,706, thus falls into Wikipedia's General guidelines for websites WP:WEB. However, the article does need expanding. Englishrose 20:34, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
• Weak keep one of the few social networking websites which does appear to be half-way notable, certainly meets WP:WEB. _└^UkPaolo/_talk^┐ 22:03, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment I reverted spam to this AFD. I had redacted my listing but now that I've seen the spam in action I'm keeping it. Ashibaka tock 10:07, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - its nothing bad about the site and the article. Some people like it, some other dont, as usuall. Definietly is big player on social networks market so I dont see any point to ommit it in Wiki... Pkuczynski 23:51, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
• Keep - I use this site myself and managed to get in touch with a friend I hadnt seen for years - I think many other members have also had very positive experience: check: http://www.wayn.com/wayn.html?wci=splash&page=testimonials chanoines

Actually, I have been looking into this and all seems very clear:

WAYN allows its members to import their contacts from various address books: for the moment, they seem to have this too working for Hotmail, AOL, Gmail and Yahoo….The process is fairly straight forward and it is made clear what actually happens: by importing your contacts onto the site, an invitation is automatically sent on your behalf – you can check this at the following link: http://www.wayn.com/wayn.html?wci=register2

Their privacy policy is also making this process even clearer – you can check this at the following link:

http://www.wayn.com/wayn.html?wci=StaticPage&page=Privacy – detailed below:

5. Invite a Friend

If a user elects to use our Invitation option to invite a friend to our site, we ask them for the friend's email address. WAYN will automatically send the friend an email inviting them to join the site provided the user agrees to obtain consent from their friends to send them an invitation. WAYN stores this email address for the purpose of automatically adding the respondent to the friends list of the user sending the invitation, and also to send reminders of the invitation. WAYN does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations and invitation reminders. The friend may contact WAYN to request the removal of this information from our database.

6. Uploading your Contacts

If a user elects to upload their contacts, they accept that by doing so, an email invitation will be sent on their behalf, to the email addresses of the contacts that are being uploaded and that from time to time, a reminder email could be sent to that contact. By inviting their contacts to join the site, the user agrees that they have obtained prior consent from their friends to send them an invitation. WAYN stores the name and email address of the contacts for the purpose of automatically adding the respondent to the friends list of the user sending the invitation and to send reminders of the invitation on the user’s behalf. The users' username and password will not be saved anywhere on the site. The names of the contacts being uploaded will also be searchable via the name search facility to enable other WAYN users to find old friends. Other WAYN users will be able to send an anonymous email to the user who uploaded the contact name being searched, with a description of the person they are trying to get back in touch with, enabling the user who uploaded the contact to potentially connect the two people together. WAYN does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations and invitation reminders. The user or the users' contacts can request the removal of their details from our database by sending an email to remove@wayn.com.

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.