Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AdwareAlert

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. --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 22:49, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] AdwareAlert

This page is (and was) just advertising. This program is not notable enough to be in Wikipedia, whether a rogue antispyware program or not - delete. --FlyingPenguins 03:58, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

• Delete ad; also, two sentences do not a Wikipedia article make. B.Wind 04:56, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

• Note: Ahh, the irony of the creators of technology for removing other technology abusing technology for advertising, abusing another technology for advertising :) While I agree the motive behind creating this article is obviously advertising (see initial revision), we do keep more prominent anti-spyware software such as Ad-Aware. adwarealert.com has Alexa rank of 55,247, borderline notability. --Quarl 05:09, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
• Keep I don't trust Alexa much, but that number seems supportive of notability... Looking at the history, there seems to be some POV warring between the company fans (minions?) and those that want to point out that this product is considered rogue by some... getting past that, there is a fair bit of info that could be gleaned from the various versions and put in. Enough to take the article to Featured status? Probably not, but a decent article. Failing that, merge it with antispyware++Lar 07:12, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete spam, not encyclopedic.--MONGO 09:16, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, linkspam. Radiant_>|< 10:52, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete since much of the inbound traffic seems to be ads, 55k is above the usual Alexa rank for WP:WEB, and I hate spam. Just zis  Guy, you know? ^[T]/_[C] AfD? 11:24, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Linkspam ComputerJoe 16:20, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete This is linkspam, and this article does not have much to expand on. Ajwebb 17:59, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
• Comment before you decide it's linkspam and vote that way I suggest going through the history. For example this version is not linkspam: [1], nor is the 2nd one after it, or the 4th one, etc. The anons keep restoring it back to an advert, but the versions where it is not just an advert (particularly this one [2] do seem potentially encyclopedic, if a bit thin. I guess if there is no way to stop the revert warring, then yes, delete it, but wouldn't it be better to have a useful article there? I already "voted" above, so this is just a comment. I also tried to put some of the content back.++Lar 04:15, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Add. Is it for just $19.95 too? -- Hurricane Eric - my dropsonde - archive 19:36, 30 December 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 a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.