Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Omniglot

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The result was Delete -- we need actual sources, not just a count of Ghits. NawlinWiki 19:08, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Omniglot

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This is a useful and cool website, but I don't see that it meets WP:WEB. I can't find non-trivial media coverage. The article cites only one review of the site, hosted at Bowdoin College, which seems to be a reprint of material from the American Library Association newsletter. The site has no indication of major awards. Therefore, even though I like the site, I suspect that it doesn't meet our notability guidelines. --Akhilleus (talk) 17:48, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

• Delete per a very thoughtful nom. Alexa rank is about 29,000. Shalom ^Hello 22:30, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
• Delete - no serious assertion of notability. Terraxos 01:36, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
• Keep. A Google search turned up more than 300,000 hits. While the article doesn't say a great deal about the site, it can be improved. Lumturo 02:05, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Since "omniglot" is an English word used independently of the website, I have to doubt that all 300,000 of those hits are relevant here. However, if some of them are from reliable sources, they would be useful. I did a Google search before starting this AfD (as well as a Lexis-Nexis search, and a Google Scholar search), and didn't come up with useful sources. It's entirely possible that I missed something, though, so if anyone can find some independent, non-trivial coverage of the website, please let us know. --Akhilleus (talk) 04:48, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 03:23, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 03:23, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Keep Yahoo! test confirms status of notability here for a search of "Omniglot web site -Wikipedia" returns almost 100,000 hits. Alexa turns up 88,000. Gogle also has many.bibliotheque (Talk) 11:16, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

• Delete. Search hits mean extremely little. I agree with Akhilleus: insignificant mentions in reliable sources: we can't keep this. Mangojuice^talk 18:45, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

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