Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/VCL (Vixen Controlled Library)

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. Deizio talk 00:23, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VCL (Vixen Controlled Library)

Non-notable furry site. Pugs Malone 00:54, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

• No vote yet Has been around for 11 years, and is quite a big deal within the furry community. I get 125,000 Google hits for VCL +furry. Though wildly popular, I'm not sure it passes WP:WEB due to a general lack of published sources covering this sort of thing. If WP:WEB were about popularity alone, though, it would pass with flying colours. Witholding vote for now to see if additional evidence is provided either pro or con. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 02:19, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

• Comment You have to remember that WP:WEB, WP:N, etc. are not solid policies in themselves. They are more along the lines of general guidelines to how to determine whether an article subject is notable enough to be on Wikipedia. However, if an article subject fails WP:WEB but it is admittedly popular, surely it should have an article here, if you see where I'm going with this. Beno1000 12:54, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

• Weak Delete Don't know much about furry art (Don't want to know much about it). But this is basically an ad for a web site. I say delete or somehow merge with furry art article. --MarsRover 04:05, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep. Passes the Google test, seems more notable than many websites. Think it turned up in Bizarre magazine a long while back, too. Vizjim 09:39, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep ad-tone isn't a reason for deletion, that's for cleanup. Anyway, this is one of the most well-known furry art archives, has been around forever, and is widely known. (disclosure: I happen to have some stuff there. Not that I'd be good or anything, or have anything to do with the management of the site, and I can't remember if I ever edited the article here, definitely not to any significant extent.) --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 10:33, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. The site is notable, and an article being about a website doesn't make it a promotion for it. Coyoty 23:16, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. There is no such complaint about the Elfwood entry, but this one may deserve some more attention in terms of it's history and relevance to the Furry community. --Cryptess 19:12, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. It's one of the biggest furry sites out there. It has been around for 10+ years, and is very large content-wise too. It's a big site, especially in regard to a specialist community like the Furry one. --Noodhoog 19:24, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep Very notable, and has plenty of GHits. edit: However, I will say that the article needs cleaning up - it does have a big ad-tone to it. [1] Beno1000 23:18, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
• Keep very large site, lots of google hits, very notable within the furry community.

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.