Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Talkgold

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. --Luigi30 (Taλk) 18:39, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talkgold

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Originally tagged for speedy A7, but asserts notability. Bringing it here for review. – Steel 15:43, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

• Delete Lacks reliable sources to assert that it is notable among Internet forums. Many forums are big, and have a lot of members, but that's not a good enough reason to keep the article. Leebo⁸⁶ 15:50, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

• Not sure if this is the right place to respond but anyway.
  Well Talkgold is a big forum which in my opinion is reason enough to add it to wiki.
  But that's not all.
  Talkgold became a part of the internet history during the time 12dailypro was around, maybe the biggest ponzi scheme ever. 500.000.000$ where invested there altogether.
  Because the 12 daily pro forum was closed for new members and censored as well, Talkgold offered thousands of investors a place where they were able to share information, warn others not to join that scam and all the things they were not allowed to do in the original 12dp forum.
  The same story applies to other big scam programs like PIPs, "DXinone" etc.
  Additionally, Talkgold is, as said in the article, the biggest HYIP discussion forum. Just search for "HYIP forum" and similar terms.
  That's why I am against deleting the wiki article.
  I don't know which sources you guys mean. You can check google if you want, I guess you know what a number one ranking for such heavily competited terms like "HYIP forum" means.
  Additionally, you can ask alexa.com if the website really is in the top 5000, and I can assure you: it is.
  It would be great to get some hints from you what else would be good. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.73.55.120 (talk • contribs)

• Has the forum been written about by reliable sources with no affiliation to the forum? (ie: major newspaper articles, journals or magazine submissions dealing with High Yield Investment Programs, chapters in published books... basically anything that has gone through a fact-ckecking or editorial process and then been published) Can these sources be provided? If not, the information in the article is unverifiable and may be considered original research (see the Wikipedia:Attribution guideline for more detail), and as such should be deleted. -- saberwyn 00:11, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

• Delete fails at least WP:V and WP:N. John Vandenberg 04:23, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
• Talkgold has in fact been on several local and national news shows especially during the collpase of the infamous 12daily.com back in February of 2006 which was one of the largest scams in recent internet history. Brian of Talkgold was responsible for providing the authorities as well as various news organizations a copy of Charis Johnsons (12dialypros administrator)license. For a source you may be able to contact Salt Lake Cities channel 6 action news team.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.203.110.173 (talk • contribs) 22:13, 5 March 2007

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