Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gawab

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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 of the debate was keep. Ichiro 22:25, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gawab

Was not sure if this merits an entry Prashanthns 05:13, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete . MArketing/advertising .Blnguyen 05:59, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Cleanup then Keep, because the website is extremely notable according to Alexa. http://gawab.com has Alexa traffic rank of 875 (rank of 10,000 needed for website to be considered notable). —Quarl (talk) 2006-01-06 06:59Z
    • Cleaned up. Now it just needs to be expanded (but the stubbiness shouldn't matter for AFD). —Quarl (talk) 2006-01-06 07:08Z
  • Weak delete Seems like an advert, to me, but it is notable B.ellis 16:05, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete 3.7 million sounds notable but is probably not so when compared to Yahoo Mail, GMail, Hotmail, etc. Also in it's current form this is just ad spam. —gorgan_almighty 17:08, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Maybe not notable when compared to the top 3 webmail providers, but probably notable when compared to the set of all webmail providers, and very notable when compared to the set of all websites. —Quarl (talk) 2006-01-07 00:35Z
  • Keep as per Quarls clean up Jcuk 21:08, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. It's cleaned up, looks good. But still not-notable enough for me. Ifnord 23:53, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
    • Can you please elaborate on why you think it is non-notable? I hadn't heard of it before, but I also haven't heard of most of the websites with Wikipedia articles. The criterion I'm going by is Alexa rank. —Quarl (talk) 2006-01-07 00:35Z
      • Sure. The criteria is a guideline, not an absolute. This stub reads like an ad and I don't think it will (or even can) be expanded to an encyclopedia article. The "biggies" in email providers such as Hotmail (first big web-based email) and Gmail (first huge space email) are notable as they were the first and most oft used when people reference email. At best I may change my vote to merge (to email perhaps) then delete. Ifnord 05:51, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep Google shows many hits for gawab and their website is ranked in the top 1,000 sites by Alexa. Although the article does read like an advertisement, that can always be cleaned up and shouldn't justify it being deleted. --BWD 04:21, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
  • keep. this site is legit. Kingturtle 09:00, 11 January 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.