Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GameDAILY Community

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The result of the debate was - deleted - SimonP 00:13, May 22, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] GameDAILY Community

As far as I can tell this is just an average webforum. The article doesn't establish anything notable about the site, and appears to be a community vanity article. The forum has 561,000 posts made in two years and as far as I can tell has had an entirely uneventful history. Google has no results for "GameDAILY Community" outside the forum itself [1]. Joe D (t) 03:12, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

    • [Lies. Get your facts straight. It's closer to 1,463,258 posts]
Note: two anons have been adding bracketed comments to users' posts. I have moved them to below the points of contention. Master Thief Garrett 03:19, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. It's a small forum, with nothing particularly notable about it. Only 5500 members. --Carnildo 04:10, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Even the "fads" part of the page lists nothing that hasn't been seen on a thousand other forums... Doozer 04:23, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
    • [most of the fads listed are unique to 404. You don't see "lolicron" everywhere.]
  • Delete, non-notable. Or, at least, if it were I would add ZFGC, which gets ~20,000 posts a month. Master Thief Garrett 08:43, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
    • [404 is larger than ZFGC. Not sure if it's older though.]
  • Delete all but the most notable forums. --the wub (talk) 14:41, 16 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Do not delete Note: I AM the person who wrote the original version of the wiki, so I may be biased. Admittedly it isn't a forum of great note, but I don't see anything in the rules against putting in forums - it exists, has existed for a good amount of time and seems certain to exist for at least another couple of years or so. If you look elsewhere on wiki, small schools have wikipedia entries, and we don't have people demanding that those be deleted simply because they are not famous schools that have produced many famous people. The fads section is set to ONLY contain fads spawned on this forum - if you've seen another one elsewhere and it doesn't state who made it on the forum, delete that fad. The actual post count is higher than 561,000 - GD has been hacked and wiped twice, we have had croppings of old topics before and two months of posts were lost due to a technical error. And of course Google's not going to have results for it, we only changed to that name a few months ago, and also, if something came from a board and is credited, who on earth is going to bother to write out GameDAILY Community. This is the very internet that is primarily compromised of people too lazy to spell out "you" properly. --LupusCanis
    • "If you look elsewhere on wiki, small schools have wikipedia entries, and we don't have people demanding that those be deleted simply because they are not famous schools that have produced many famous people."
      Er.. yes, we do, and always have. Bad example, the threashold notability for including schools is one of the longest running and most vociferous policy debates on Wikipedia. Joe D (t) 18:24, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Do not delete. What is this page hurting by just being here? --ReiOf404

Rei's Reply: I just registered, jerk.

  • Keep if expanded Well, I figure that the actual GameDAILY website carries a lot of importance to the internet gaming world, as it is a rather often-visited web site. However, the forums are not very notable, so I suggest that if the forum section were to stay, then the article needs be expanded to primarily serve the website, but also feature the forums. -- Davis Hurley 23:19, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
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