Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cloob

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 was no consensus. Maxim_(talk) 14:16, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cloob

Cloob (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) (delete) – (View log)

No assertion of notability (WP:V), no references (WP:V). Marasmusine (talk) 08:04, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

• Delete Non-notable website, pretty obvious. Jmlk17 09:44, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
• Keep, alexa says it's the 1000th most visited site on the web (down from 500th earlier this year). Pretty remarkable if it's based in a country where most people don't have internet access. Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 11:33, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

  Nice to hear. Has this been commented on by any independent, reliable sources? Marasmusine (talk) 11:53, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

  This page indicates it's the 6th most popular site in Iran. I haven't been able to find press coverage, but that's not unusual for topics of interest in the 3rd world. See WP:CSB. Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 12:04, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

• Delete WP:CSB says nothing about ignoring core WP policies, like WP:V, in articles of interest in the 3rd world. Nothing in the article is verifiable via significant coverage in reliable sources. UnitedStatesian (talk) 01:04, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions. —Pixelface (talk) 14:09, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Iran-related deletion discussions. —Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 15:12, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
• Delete I will say to delete it, unless someone can at least find reliable sources written in Persian, to make me doubt my vote? Gary King (talk) 07:06, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
• Keep I have included some Persian links in the article's talk page. Also here it officially claims to have more than 510,000 registered users (of course most of them Iranians,) which I found quite verifiable using its Search People service. Further, it is significant while talking about Internet censorship in Iran. Cloob appeared just after Orkut was shut down, it grew to half a million users, and now it is censored in its own place. Saintali (talk) 02:43, 10 March 2008 (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.