Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gumtree

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The result was Keep per Snow/Nomination withdrawn - Non-Admin Closure . Fosnez 13:15, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gumtree

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Does not assert notability. Cites only one third party source, which is itself very brief. The JPS^{talk to me} 10:05, 12 September 2007 (UTC) Keep now that article is referenced. The JPS^{talk to me} 11:53, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Delete Per nom. Yamakiri 10:58, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Comment. I had a quick look for sources after filtering out all (well, most) of their sites from Google.

• Called "immensely popular" by the BBC 1
• in July Computing magazine quoted their Head of Technology, "[We] recently broke into the top 20 most popular web sites in the UK." 2.
• A more detailed report of the eBay buyout from the Manchester Evening News 3
• confirmation of the top 20 sites thing and Gumtree apparently has 18.4% of UK classified site visits by June 2007 4.
• IT Pro article about a technology rollout 5,
• brief mention in the Good Web Guide 6 (Not sure whether this is reliable source?).
• Brief mention of the buyout in ZDNet, more from ebay's point-of-view 7.

Would any of this help assert notability? I don't really have an opinion about the article either way. Alternatively, information could be merged with Ebay or Kijiji (what an awful name!) --Kateshortforbob 11:03, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Strongest Possible Keep and SNOW - When in San Fransico you look for flats/jobs on Craigslist. When in London you look for flats/jobs on Gumtree. I am invoking common sense/Wikipedia:Ignore all rules on this one. As you can see here, Craigslist is compared TO Gumtree, not the other way around, infering that Gumtree is locally notable (and it is). Also of note, Ebay owns Gumtree[1][2] - Fosnez 11:12, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Comment More references - MySQL Press release, Sage Business Awards 2004, Press releases about: [3][4][5][6][7][8]

Comment I have extensivly referenced the article now. Fosnez 11:33, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm happy to withdraw my nomination now that the article has more references. I haven't seen the rescue task force before: I like the positive tone! How do you respond to users (such as the one this morning) who attempted to use this to advertise their service? (check out the history.) The JPS^{talk to me} 11:52, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

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