Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/My Opera Community

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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 no consensus. A Train take the 17:40, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My Opera Community

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Article fails WP:WEB. In the 100 unique Google hits I cannot find any non-trivial references in reliable sources, no evidence it satisfies any other criteria of WP:WEB. Should be deleted. RWR8189 07:09, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

  • Seems to pass WP:WEB at The content is distributed via a medium which is both well known and independent of the creators.... But it's borderline; I'm not sure we want to publish everything that Opera does. Part Deux 07:21, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - the article is well sourced, happily. The citations alone prove its notability, especially ones like [1], or, perhaps, [2]. Part Deux 08:15, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - Our community site is widely popuplar in Eastern Europe and Asia in particular, and with 600 000 users and growing, we certainly think it's worthy an entry in Wikipedia. Vetler 15:46, 1 February 2007 (UTC), also Tim Berners-Lee suggests on his LinkedIn page that a better way to befriend him is on the Opera Community rather than on LinkedIn. --Kjetil Kjernsmo 16:40, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - per above Kc4 05:29, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment on references The article lists numerous references, BUT almost all of those references are directly from www.opera.com. I would feel much more comfortable with the references if they at least had the appearance of greater independence from the company. I'll abstain on making a keep/delete recommendation here, though, since I don't currently have time to review the references for verification more thoroughly. Dugwiki 22:31, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
    • This has bothered me too, and I did make an effort to improve this. Though it would be nice if more people contributed. Kc4 05:29, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete How is this more than the news/support/forum mechanism for Opera (internet suite)?. Registering to post in a help forum doesn't make you a member of a "community." And all the high tech stuff mentioned in the article surely has more to do with server load from people downloading Opera and other commerical software offered than merely running the forum. This is the worst sort of commercial advertisement to me. Static Universe talk|edits 07:01, 3 February 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.