Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Tech Report

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. 4 votes to keep (noting that J E Bailey forgot to sign his legit vote, and discounting the votes of Jpowell (3 edits) and Thegleek (3 edits)); 2 votes to delete, as the nominator switched votes. -- BD2412 ^talk 02:47, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Tech Report

Appears to be a mixture of author vanity and website advertising; poorly constructed; I propose deletion. Robchurch 2 July 2005 14:47 (UTC)

• • I altered my opinion after the page was modified - see below for details. Rob Church 3 July 2005 00:24 (UTC)

its still underconstruction so atleast give it a few days. and its the same as several otherwebsite articles such as AnandTech which reads much more like a promotion then this article. while it might seem insignificant to you this article does have use for a specific group. I vote it stays--24.119.127.33 2 July 2005 16:45 (UTC)(this was me --Stranger July 5, 2005 22:44 (UTC))

• Delete has an Alexa rank of 14 364 and is difficult to extract from Google owing to many other technical reports. WP:NOT a webdirectory. If the article can be written into something that is not a joke by the end of VfD then I might revise my vote. -Splash July 2, 2005 17:13 (UTC)

Hmm, at least an effort was made to improve the article, but my vote stands. -Splash 5 July 2005 21:39 (UTC)

• Alright I edited out almost all of the noise now and fixxed things up. does it look better?--Stranger July 2, 2005 18:10 (UTC)
• Yes, the page now has an excuse to remain. With that said, I now vote to keep it - I cite The Register and Slashdot as other pages we have. Rob Church 3 July 2005 00:24 (UTC)
• Weak keep: it's by no means on-par with Slashdot. The page needs some work, but I vote to keep. --Alex12 3 3 July 2005 12:14 (UTC)
• Keep: I agree that it's better than some of the pages for other tech sites on here - IMO, it's better than The Register --Bhtooefr 3 July 2005 13:01 (UTC)
• Not an encyclopedia article; despite the edits, it is still a vanity. Delete unless completely rewritten. - Mike Rosoft 3 July 2005 23:10 (UTC)

To all those who dislike the article as it stands can you explain exactly the parts you disagre with and think should either rewriten or removed?--Stranger July 5, 2005 22:43 (UTC)

• Keep: It should be tagged with a cleanup and as a web based stub.
• Keep: techreport is well known and much of the nonsensical data has been removed. --Thegleek 6 July 2005 15:51 (UTC)
• Keep: The article should stay, perhaps a new category should be created for web based tech journals. --Jpowell 6 July 2005 17:21 (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.