Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Facebook features

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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. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 06:45, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Facebook features

In what way is this article not a how-to? We have a decent article on Facebook but I can't see the point of this, much of which is written in the first person; the sole source appears to be Facebook itself, and a lot of the text is instructional. Just zis Guy you know? 15:54, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete, nothing to merge into Facebook, WP:NOT a how-to or Facebook's FAQ. --Kinu t/c 16:38, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete: Wikipedia is not an instructional manual. Rohirok 17:49, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete and Merge: I vote for deletion too, at least with regard to the "how to" section listing the features. As for the timeline of site modifications, I think some of the events on the timeline are relevant (for example, the fact that the introduction of groups and, later, photos, significantly changed the way people used the facebook). I had added a few of these things to the original article, and as people added more and more events to this list, it at some point split off into this separate article. Most of the timeline is really of questionable significance though, so I think the bulk of it can be safely scrapped. NBS525 20:41, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. We're not Facebook's FAQ. Also, merge and delete is not allowed, per the GFDL. --Coredesat talk. ^_^ 00:31, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
    • Delete and Merge. To clarify: I believe some parts of this article should be deleted, and others should be merged with Facebook. NBS525 16:58, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment. The timeline of site modifications is a useful history, if the article gets deleted, I think it (the timeline) should be merged into Facebook. --Varco 03:34, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment and Merge: I read this article primarily for the timeline of site modifications and I would hope it would be merged with the other Facebook article as well. 12:28, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment: Perhaps this article could be renamed Timeline of Facebook.com Modifications and the "FAQ"/"how to" section of it could be deleted. It seems like the timeline is the unique part of the article, and this way, it wouldn't cause the Facebook article to become so long that it's problematic (again). NBS525 17:04, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment: Leave it, very interesting to see how the site has progressed from being quite simple to so complicated and on a global-scale.Thegsrguy 18:30, 8 August 2006 (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.