Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pennock's Fiero Forum

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The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 12:25, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pennock's Fiero Forum

This came up because multiple anon IP's were inserting linkspam to this site in various articles (at a guess in response to a forum post). We can't very well block links to a site that we have an article on. Here's what I find: Alexa rank is about 240,000. Google shows 12,900 hits for the site, but it appears 8,600 of those are from the site itself. The article itself is, quite frankly, dreadful, with first person references and POV opinions of this forum and a competing one. Generally I want to take an axe to any article with the phrase "owning noobs" but at least it doesn't say "pwning n00bs". If kept, needs a major rewrite, but the question is, is it worth keeping? Fan-1967 13:59, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

• Forums need a pretty strong claim to notability to be worthy of a Wikipedia article. Heck, the EVE Online forums have an Alexa rank of around 5000 and still don't deserve a Wikipedia article. And neither does this forum. Delete. — Dark Shikari ^talk/_contribs 14:09, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

agreed. i would think the language would get the article deleted right away...... also, this forum link keeps getting added to the Pontiac Fiero article, which it should not per WP:EL Stuph 22:06, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Naconkantari 01:47, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, fails WP:WEB. MaxSem 06:49, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

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