Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Squidoo

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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 of the debate was keep. Shanel 01:22, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] squidoo

This spammer is a failed attempt to be the one millionth article, 1 Mar 2006 Deletesquidoo 15:10, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

  • Keep - I remember back in July 2001 this little website with only 3,000 articles. It was struggling along, and it looked like tho project might die out soon. Eventually a user named Larry Sanger wrote an article an tried to get it published on Kuro5hin.org, a popular technology site of the day. Many users thought that this article was spam since Wikipedia had only been around a few months and was clearly using K5's reach to promote itself. Some of us thought it was a cool idea anyway that few people had heard of, and thought it had the potential to become something big. So we let it post to the front page. Then a few days later it got linked to by Slashdot, and suddenly the project was picking up steam.

Keep, its very good entry


Wikipedia has received hundreds of millions of dollars of free "advertising." I've spent more hours promoting Wikipedia than you will ever know. I've been a Wikipedia user since July 2001, when the above K5 article was published, and I created my first article on February 22nd, 2002. I know the rules. I also know what spam is and isn't.

The site is notable. The site has thousands of users, many of whom are experts in their fields. It is a novel solution to the problem of search. The site itself was conceived by a best selling author, and one of its advisors is on the board of ICANN. Currently while the site does generate money from adsense and Amazon referral links, it donates 100% of that money to charity, which it will continue to do throughout the next few months that it is in beta. Alex Krupp 15:47, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Comment on comment: It was 6,000 articles on Wikipedia in July 2001 according to the kuro5hin.org article. Rmhermen 19:08, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Seems like a sufficiently notable website. Given the username of the nominator, I have to question whether this nomination was made in good faith. -Colin Kimbrell 15:48, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Hm, this AFD nomination was the nominator's first edit.[1] I think a sock check might be in order. -Colin Kimbrell 15:59, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep. Who cares if it is a commercial website? The article is true, verifiable, and referenced. The website is notable. What is the problem? PaulC/T+ 16:22, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Speedy Keep - it appears the only reason that this was nominated for deletion is that it is the 1000001th article. Nominated by a user with no edit history at that. If my high school, and a scotish train station get articles, there is no reason for this one to not stay --T-rex 16:24, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment er, how could an article created Oct 10th 2005 be a candidate for the one millionth article. Not a very strong case for an AfD.--Isotope23 16:28, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
It was previously deleted as being spam and not notable, look at the difference from October to yesterday's version. PaulC/T+ 16:33, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Ah, so it was.--Isotope23 16:56, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment: Hmm, there is a source, that's better than most website articles. Withdrawing my vote and comments. Friday (talk) 16:32, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Keep It's an informational entry and seems perfectly valid to me.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Alec McEnemin (talk • contribs)

  • Keep. Notable website with an Alexa rank of 3,625, which is very high for a website launched only 6 months ago. It's been written about in CNN and The Washington Post. Angela. 22:28, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment - the nominator has an interesting username. --Ixfd64 01:13, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
  • Keep per alexa rank and multiple media coverage. Also I believe this is the real millionth article since the supposed 999,999th was deleted. Kappa 03:55, 6 March 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.