Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Asylum (2nd nomination)

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 delete. —Kirill Lokshin 02:12, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Asylum

Appears to be another vanity page for radio website that doesn't trip the Alexa radar [1], which (I recently learned) counts to at least 3 million. Only 505 google hits. We've deleted and padlocked topics more notable than this. — FREAK OF NUR_xTURE (TALK) 12:24, Jan. 19, 2006

This article has already survived an afd and proved it's notability here. Maybe you should read it. Here are some quotes from Alexa's that you should pay close attention to:

"The traffic data are based on the set of Alexa users, which may not be a representative 
sample of the global Internet population. Known biases include (but are likely not limited 
to) the following:   
The Alexa Toolbar works only with the Internet Explorer browser. Sites frequented mainly by 
users of other browsers will be undercounted. For example, the AOL/Netscape browser is not 
supported, which means that Alexa collects little data from AOL users, and our traffic to 
aol.com is likely lower than it would be for a more representative sample. 
The Alexa Toolbar works only on Windows operating systems. Although a large majority of the 
Internet population currently used Windows, traffic to any sites which are disproportionately 
visited by users of other operating systems will be undercounted."

I'm the main editor on the article? So what? There's lots of articles on wikipedia that are only edited by one or two people. Everybody that is knowledgable on a subject doesn't edit articles on wikipedia either. I don't really see much point in dignifying your afd with a vote. I will again point you in the direction of the original afd at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ThereIsNoRadio. The arrogance of the "I haven't heard of it so it must not be important" afd's is rediculous and I'm getting tired of defending articles I've worked hard on for these reasons. Randomgenius 21:11, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

• Delete nn vanity -- Astrokey44|talk 23:59, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as above Ashibaka tock 01:38, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Interesting page but seems to be a non-notable show on a non-notable station. If the station proves notable then it is another story, otherwise delete. Grandwazir 06:30, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as above, however it's good to see that the style of the article has improved in response to recent complaints MikeMorley 08:36, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as above. If you're "tired of defending articles I've worked hard on" maybe you should instead work on Wikipedia:Requested articles and Wikipedia:Cleanup instead of articles about yourself. --Perfecto 22:26, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Who exactly do you think I am? I've just been following the shows, and stations since soon after they started. I thought wiki was for people to write about things they know. I've contributed to other articles outside of these, but I've been working pretty hard to add information and make them more encyclopedic. I've been told that some of the references I've added in dicussions here should be put in the article. If it survives afd, I will do that but I don't see any reason to continue effort on something that will just be deleted because a specific cross section of the world hasn't heard of it and calls it non-noteable. -- Randomgenius 00:20, 21 January 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.