Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Schools' Rugby Website

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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 was delete. Mailer Diablo 07:48, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Schools' Rugby Website

Fails Alexa test at rank of 547,000; also reads like an ad; was originally prodded by prod removed by sole author. Hbdragon88 19:11, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete The article states that the site exists but not that anyone uses it, so not assertion of notability. Fails WP:WEB. Also, and this may just be a DNS problem at my end, but neither external links posted seem to work. --IslaySolomon 19:16, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. Just be glad they didn't list all of the schools and their rosters. tmopkisn tlka 19:23, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Not sure if I'm on the right track here...new user and all that...the website has received 10 million visits over last 12 months...so folks are using it. Not sure I understand fully what 'Tmopkisn' means by "glad we didn't post schools and their rosters!! I think this is a bit of an arrogant statment, neither warranted nor helpful! I'll keep tweaking the description if that's ok until you censorship/editing folks are accepting that we do exist and have since 1997; just like MacDonalds, Rugby School and others who appear in your pages. PhilKN 12:33, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Nobody's denying that you guys exist. We are only debating whether this site meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines according to WP:WEB. One of those guidelines is the Alexa rank - and at 547,000, it doesn't meet the 100,000 guideline. A Google saerch yields nothing on any media mention of the website. Therefore, it's not notable according to WP's guidelines, and thus should be deleted. Hbdragon88 20:39, 10 July 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.