Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Christianforums.com

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The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 19:11, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Christianforums.com

Looks like just another minor website vanity page. – ClockworkSoul 03:33, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Comment Is is an extremely well trafficed message board. There are other websites with similar traffic which have their own pages, such as Internet Infidels.

The difference is that this article thus far is just a vanity page. If it were more encyclopedaic, it might be fine, but as it is it should be deleted. Sholtar 03:43, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)

• No vote as yet. Site itself boasts that the forums have 107,220 members, but it has an Alexa ranking of 49,546. Have there been precendents set for Web forums based on number of members? I think there have, but I can't find them. Normally, I'd vote delete on something like this and say "Wikipedia is not a website directory," but despite the Alexa ranking, this might be somewhat significant. (BTW, does anyone else find some forums are "Christian Only" as defined by the administrators a tad creepy?) android↔talk 03:58, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
  • Regarding forum membership precedents, we seem to often vote to delete forums with an obviously small number of members, but on the other hand the opposite doesn't seem to be true: i.e. that forums with membership above a certain number should be kept. This makes sense, because obviously it's very easy to lie about membership numbers, and even "truthful" member counts almost always include inactive accounts, banned users, sockpuppets, bots, etc. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 13:45, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or Complete This article isn't encyclopaedic, it's barely even well-typed. While I'm not sure whether or not this deserves a wiki entry, if it does, it needs a complete entry. Currently, it is just a vanity page for a website. Our comments on what to do with this contain more info than the actual posting. --TheAdversary 06:49, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete pretty awful substub, reads more like an ad or web guide entry than an encyclopedia article. While the Alexa rank of 50,000 is higher than a lot of the websites we VFD, it certainly isn't so incredibly high that the article should be kept on that basis alone. Maybe someday somebody could write a decent article on this topic, but this isn't it (or even a good start for it). Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 13:49, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, irght now it's advertising, but if the number of forum members checks out and a significant amount of them is active, I'd have no problem with an encyclopedic entry on the site. Mgm|^(talk) 14:27, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete the Alexa rank speaks volumes. Notability just hasn't been established. --InShaneee 19:15, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, not notable, website advert/promo. Megan1967 03:57, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, I think the same article may hav already been through vfd once --nixie 23:09, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, reasons as already stated by others. Loopy 19:32, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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