Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smogon

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The result of the debate was delete (only 1 valid keep vote) -- Francs2000 | Talk 01:52, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Smogon

Smells like an advertisement to me! 841 google hits, and apparently there's also a Pokemon with this name, and a good portion of the pages are in another language which i cannot read. --Phroziac (talk) 16:00, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

• Keep --RicePigeonKKM 23:17, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

• User's second edit. CDC (talk) 23:43, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

• Delete -- BMIComp (talk) 16:01, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, easily the most important site in online Pokémon battling other than the site of Pokémon NetBattle itself (pokemon+netbattle is 13,300 google hits, 16,300 for just netbattle), and is both the unofficial discussion forums of NetBattle (NetBattle has its own, but they are inactive so NetBattle regulars use Smogon instead) and the official strategy forums^[1]. Smogon is also NetBattle's most popular server by far, and the owner has recently joined NetBattle's dev team. Lack of google hits is simply due to its relative youth, hopefully I've shown that it's far more popular than google would show. Also, why would smogon give 838 hits but smogon+netbattle give 7,380? - Jshadias 11:21, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, Pokémon NetBattle already covers the material and low Google/Alexa #601,833 indicates it doesn't merit its own article. Dcarrano 19:03, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
  • Pokémon NetBattle does not already cover the material - Jshadias 23:05, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
• Speedy keep, The Smogon.com community, both the web site and online forum, serves as the primary location for discussion between the most skilled online battlers from all the major and most influential competitive battling communities such as GameFAQs and Azure Heights, and between aspiring battlers for whom Smogon.com has become their primary resource concerning the metagames of all three generations. While Phroziac probably means well, if he/she were more familiar with the community/communities he/she would realize that there is no question about the significance of Smogon among competitive battlers. (There's also no real redundancy with the NetBattle article that I can see.) - MattW 70.20.22.199 21:36, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete non-notable website. Most websites are important to some small community, but that doesn't make them encyclopedic in a larger sense. CDC (talk) 23:10, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

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