Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/PocketGPSWorld.com

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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 Delete as unsourced, userfy on request if someone wants to turn this into an actual, sourced article. "Alexa rank", "premier source", "number of forum members", "obvious notability" are not adequate responses for the lack of sourcing in this article, and combined with the quality of the article itself this means it can't stay in article space in the hope that it might someday get sourced. ~ trialsanderrors 06:21, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PocketGPSWorld.com

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nn websites 9ers 01:17, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Note:User's only contributions are to nominate this for deletion
  • Keep - notable site that is the premier source of information on UK speed cameras for GPS users. TerriersFan 02:48, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep Alexa rank of 31,473. Several hundred thousand forum members. Pretty good source of info. Does need alot of work though.--M8v2 03:22, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep and cleanup. While Alexa may be a poor indicator of lack of notability. Having a rank of about 30,000 indicates this site is heavily visited, further confirmed by the number of forum members. - Mgm|(talk) 11:02, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep Notable per above. --Falcorian (talk) 16:19, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Strong Delete per WP:V - I see no sources in this article, and I don't see much potential for any significant third-party sources. (0 gnews hits) Alexa of 30k isn't enough to escape WP:V. (If some sources are provided, I'm willing to revisit my !vote) ---J.S (T/C) 00:07, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete for failing WP:CORP and WP:WEB. There appear to be no reliable, non-trivial hits in a Google search for pocketgpsworld -pocketgpsworld.com -pocketgpsworld.co.uk which yields only 271 unique hits. There appear to be no reliable, non-trivial hits in a Google search for pocketgpsworld -site:pocketgpsworld.com -site:pocketgpsworld.co.uk which yields 628 unique hits. Pan Dan 00:08, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment - over 50,000 Ghits here and Maplin, who are perfectly reputable, confirm the existence of the safety camera database here. TerriersFan 03:22, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
    • Comments (1) To show notability you have to look for external sources that have written about PocketGPSWorld. That's why you need to exclude the sites pocketgpsworld.com and pocketgpsworld.co.uk from your search. (2) Even once you've done the right Google search, you can't just cite the number of hits to show notability. You have to actually find reliable non-trivial sources among those hits. (3) Re: "confirm the existence" -- no one denies that this company & website, and its services, exist. The question is, does it pass WP:CORP? The Maplin webpage is a trivial source with respect to PocketGPSWorld. Pan Dan 12:41, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep per obvious notability. Sharkface217 05:03, 7 December 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.