Talk:Questia Online Library

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I'm not positive this article should be speedied, but I have a strong suspicion, because 68.89.167.97 (talk • contribs) has been going around Wikipedia adding links to their commercial website, and also editing this article. Also I don't think this company is notable in any way. --Malathion 10:05, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

The company is extremely notable, actually. They have an exceptional collection of books, and unlike the non-notable sites, they're not public domain texts. Instead, they have purchased copyright licenses to innumerable scholarly works. This allows them to provide research services. The reason you might not have heard of them is that they're pretty exclusively scholarly and they do not allow subscriptions by libraries or corporations. Many university libraries will recommend Questia for their scholars to use at home. The text of this article isn't very advertising, either, so far as I can tell. Finally, though, advertising is not a criterion for speedy deletion at this time, though it is a criterion for deletion via Votes for Deletion (wp:vfd). I will remove the speedy tag. You believe that it's an ad, then please do add it to VfD. Geogre 17:47, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

i use questia everyday. i study puritan amercian literature and i live in algeria (north africa).very few books are available in our libraries and mainly in french. so questia saves my life. i found many books.as a comparison, i wanted to buy on amazon 3 books that would have cost 150 usd! with questia 20 usd per month.i can read and take quotes from hundred of intersting books.Djamila