Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Darque

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 delete. Singularity 06:05, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Darque

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This group appears to be either made up, or non notable. When the article was created, it provided several website addresses, but each of those currently link to a domain registry service. That is, the websites aren't currently active. Various Google searches for "Darque", for "Darque hacker group, and for "Darque hackers" all turn up a variety of unrelated sites. That might not matter if this was an article about a 16th century secret society, but for a hacker group to have no web presence seems unlikely. It is also surprising to me that if, as the article claims, members of the group were questioned in over 3000 crimes, there isn't a single piece of news coverage that could have been referenced.

I am not, however, a hacker, so I'm open to the possibility that there is some sort of secret Internet that isn't accessible to us normies. I will be cleaning up the article regardless, to make it easier for people to read for the AfD discussion, and in the event someone can demonstrate notability and the article is kept. Natalie 22:37, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

• I made a valiant effort at a cleanup, but the original writing was incredibly poor and, with the lack of sources to read myself, I had to cut a lot of stuff that didn't make any sense. Feel free to compare the old version. Natalie 22:46, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Fails WP:N. There are notable hacker groups (such as L0pht or Cult of the Dead Cow) - I don't believe this is one. Alfa 23:31, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete Having a member arrested at that one Defcon one time does not make the group notable as a whole.. no matter how much they want us to think otherwise. spazure (contribs) 05:07, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
• Delete unless some references bacjking up the claims to notability are provided. Nuttah68 09:02, 12 August 2007 (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.