Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Totally Resident Evil

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. Probable sockpuppet votes have been discounted. Sjakkalle (Check!) 12:31, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Totally Resident Evil

• Delete nn forum with Alexa rank 868,000, Google hits all seem to be search engines or link farms or similar. This article at the moment is just 'biographies' of its participants. -Splash 23:11, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete not a web directory. Friday 23:32, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Legitimate documentation of historical website and notable participants. Upon further investigation, one would see the fact that Totally Resident Evil is an affiliate of most prominent Resident Evil fan sites, and well known throughout that community. Obscurity is relative, and thus not a valid justification for the deletion of this section. -Encyclopediac 23:38, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

• This user's first edit. All others are to the article in question.-Splash 01:45, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Non-notable. Kairos 00:07, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Entry has been recently edited by forum members to be more compliant and respectful of Wikipedia's policies. As previously mentioned, the pending TotallyRE website and forum itself are well recognized and affiliated throughout the Resident Evil community. The "obscure" label is in fact relative, and is also based on someone's arbitrary opinion. -Sunderland

• This user's 4th and 5th edits. All others are to the article in question.-Splash 01:45, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

• Keep Totally Resident Evil is a large forum in the Resident evil fan community. Information provided is to show any reader the light hearted side of the forum, as well as give information about the forum, prominent members and website itself. Currently a work in progress among the users of the forum. Biographies are just a part of the overall whole.2,035 registered members, 140 Active Members, and an administration known throughout the Resident Evil community is far from Obscure. -Dek

• Pseudosigned by User:Dekuyper. User's 2nd edit, other to the article. -Splash 01:45, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

• Keep There is no valid reason to delete Totally Resident Evil. Even if it was just a list of members, I don't see how that's a reason to delete it. The members of the forum are what make up the forum itself. Without the members, there is no forum. Beside that, the forum itself has a huge online following and an important part of the Resident Evil online community. - Bio

• Pseudosigned by User:Ambient-nemesis. User's 3rd and 4th edits, others to the article. -Splash 01:45, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• Unfortunately, Wikipedia has to consider the notability of the things it has articles about. It is difficult to claim notability for a website that does not yet exist and which has only a hundred-or-so active members. There are many fora out there with many more than that. Once the site has become properly notable, the article can be recreated. You may also want to read about what what Wikipedia is not — specifically, it's not a webdirectory. I've marked the votes above as a common practise to point out to whoever closes the VfD that these users may have been created specifically to support this vote. See sockpuppets and meatpuppets. -Splash 01:45, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• TRE has made a community effort to preserve its place on the internet for web history, and several members have taken an active part in that effort by making accounts and contributing. Now you seem to have some sort of vendetta against us. We aren't Meatpuppets. However, if you are so inclined, I would be more than happy to introduce you to a Meatpuppet of an entirely different sort, Mr. "Splash". Who names an account after a sucky Tom Hanks movie, anyway?--Encyclopediac 03:28, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• "Wikipedia has to consider the notability of the subjects of its articles"? That sounds like an excuse to keep the scope of the wikiproject as small as possible. Notability is purely relative. Within its own sphere, TRE is most definitely notable, and I'm amazed by the fact that any informative, non-biased, well written article would be so widely opposed just because a few of you cling to rules. Wikipedia is a very promising outlet for education, perhaps even better than a library, and to think that you would discriminate against something solely because it's "not-notable"? What if no one was interested in Quantum Physics either? Would you stamp an nn on it and give it a delete too?--Encyclopediac 02:25, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
• On a side note, I joined yesterday to write in the entry before the deletion flag was even put on this entry. - User:Ambient-nemesis

• Delete, non-notable forum per Alexa, Google, and membership total. Dcarrano 01:20, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Sorry, not encyclopedic. -- BD2412 ^talk 02:24, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, and darn those socks! Radiant_>|< 08:54, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep TRE is one of the many Resident Evil Forums, but has come a longer way than all of the ones i've been too (Pretty much all you can think of). I see no reason to get rid of such an active thing of beauty.- DavidKing04
• Delete. Non-notable. JZ 00:02, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Not notable. Plus its Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! -- FunkyChicken! 06:12, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

• I fail to see how this entry is still spam... - Ambient-nemesis

• Delete - not notable - advert - Tεxτurε 21:21, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
• Delete I reckon. Rich Farmbrough 18:01, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

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