Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/YICS

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. 0 actual sources, and doesn't assert notability. Majorly _{(o rly?)} 00:51, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

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This was the first article I created on Wikipedia, and was originally created to increase awareness of my project. As an administrator I now feel that letting it exist without any kind of discussion about possible issues (such as WP:AUTO, WP:COI, and WP:PROG) would be a violation of the community's trust. Despite this being listed in AfD, I am not voting to delete or keep. Since I am involved in the topic of the article I would prefer to stay out of the debate entirely, but I do want to see the debate happen. --Chris (talk) 20:42, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

• Comment Given the level of disclosure, I would see no problem if you provided sources. If they aren't any then we should delete. --Daniel J. Leivick 21:31, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

• Comment As near as I can tell, YICS is a project of the author of the article that has not yet reached the stage where it justifies an entry. If he gets it up and running, and succeeds in attracting a substantial number of users, it may then meet the Wikipedia notability guidelines. Most of the links on the page do not yet appear to function. The project itself is commendable as Yahoo! Games continues to be one of the most popular places to play chess online despite bearing almost no resemblance to bona-fide chess servers. YICS is a worthy project; the Wikipedia article, however, should be deleted. JStripes 02:52, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
• comment many useful Wikipedia articles are being deleted after an AfD because notability is not established. Other useful Wikipedia articles are being deleted after AfD even though proofs of notability are given, because there is disagreement whether the proofs are sufficient. I don't think any of that is fair, but is there sufficient proof of notability in this case? AllGloryToTheHypnotoad 19:27, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
• Keep Packaged with Debian, and in the Ubuntu repositories. Good enough for me. All it needs is a couple of sources. Cloveoil 02:25, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

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