Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Soompi

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. - Mailer Diablo 12:47, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Soompi

Contested prod about a website that asserts its non-notability, e.g."Dec 2005: 578 active members". MER-C 02:25, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. 500-odd members is seriously tiny. Zetawoof^(ζ) 02:47, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. Regardless of a site's popularity, portals are not encyclopdia-worthy IMHO. If the portal contributes to something significant in past or current history, or is a significant part of current popular culture, then it would be worthy of a page. As an example of a portal having its own article, 2channel has one because it is linked to pop culture, specifically responsible for the creation of Densha Otoko. I don't see any criteria around that says "as long as XXXX site has YYYY users, then it is okay to have its own page." If this Soompi article slides by, then EVERY portal - and there's millions of them - are allowed to create articles for themselves on Wikipedia. The outcome of this removal request will set a documented precedence for all future articles regarding portals. Groink 04:47, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
• Delete; appears to be a forum site rather than a portal site, but with 500 members it's clearly not notable. --MCB 06:26, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

It's a portal. The link posted on the main article page incorrectly points to the forum. The main portal site is http://www.soompi.com/ . Groink 07:24, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:WEB. Also, member count is very low, and according to the article, it's actually gone down. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 13:40, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
• Comment - Note that although the article right now is rubbish, that Soompi has an Alexa rank of 1,200 and that the statistics on big-boards indicates 60,000 members. I'm not voting to keep, because the article isn't any good and doesn't assert its notability, but this website is more popular than pretty muchevery single webcomic on Wikipedia. - Hahnchen 02:12, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
• Comment - I don't think the article should be deleted, but revised. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.30.110.51 (talk • contribs) .
  • Why? Zetawoof^(ζ) 07:27, 27 September 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.