Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yiffstar

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 08:36, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yiffstar

Yiffstar (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)

Nominated for AfD by SchmuckyTheCat with comment "No sources. No notability. No anything." AfD closed out-of-process by Quarl. I'm re-opening the AfD - my opinion is Neutral (for now). Tevildo 16:48, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

• Speedy Delete. I'd say it was blatant spam, and so tagged. Ohconfucius 08:17, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

• Comment - What the heck was that!? An article that's been on Wikipedia for more than a year and a half goes from untagged to AFD to Spd and disappears in the span of under an hour? The AFD part I can understand, but I thought there was supposed to be a discussion period of at least a day or two for people to review the article, comment and vote on it. To have the whole process start and end as quickly as it did for this article looks pretty fishy. --Mwalimu59 15:04, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Follow up - Thank you, Tevildo, for the revert to AfD. Whatever the result is, at least this approach will give some sense of due process. --Mwalimu59 18:27, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Non-notable website devoted to a small aspect of a sexual fetish (if that's what you call it?) niche. Wavy G 22:47, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
• Speedy Keep Very-notable website devoted to a large community, regardless of sexual fetish. not all stories there are adult in nature (though most are). Niche community? not really, since it boasts over 8000 members, including yours truly. The Legendary RaccoonFox • Talk • Stalk 00:04, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
  • comment; your's is probably the best argument so far leading to delete -- wtfunkymonkey 03:15, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

  Yes, that would be a "niche community." Thank you for helping me make my point. Wavy G 03:01, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

  Reliable source for 8000 members? What makes 8000 members notable? We delete websites with 8000 subscribers every day. SchmuckyTheCat 00:16, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Does not meet the primary notability criterion and number of participants is not a reason to keep. JChap2007 01:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• Merge with furry fandom and not yiff Furry fandom has more appropriate material. The yiff article is more about defining a term. Anomo 12:28, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete (even while I'm supposedly on the site's side). While this site is notable by furry community standards, I don't think it's remarkable enough in Wikipedia's standards - the user community is sizeable but not that sizeable. We have WikiFur for this material... This may be external-link-worthy in yiff or any related article, but I don't think the history of the site interests too many non-furries. (or furries, for that matter - let's face it, they're just there to read the stories. =) --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 12:31, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - and I could swear I've seen this unreferenced, no-reliable-sources spam before a while back. Could be wrong, though. Moreschi ^Deletion! 12:37, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment See the article's history at earliest point. Anomo 18:53, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. No evidence of notability outside the fandom. (And not that notable within the fandom, to be honest). Tevildo 13:14, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
  • I don't know about that "within the fandom" . . . there's not that many furry sites that have a sub-100,000 Alexa rank (80,000 avg, venturing into 60,000 territory occasionally) and which have been up almost five years. It's porn, to be sure, but it's well-managed porn. GreenReaper 02:24, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
    • I know we're not supposed to invoke precedent here, but my point - perhaps expressed rather too subtly - was that compared with (say) FA or FN or VCL or Yerf, all of which went without a whimper, Yiffstar isn't _the_ most significant of furry sites, and it would (IMO) be perverse to keep this article while the most important sites are deemed non-notable. However, this isn't a legitimate line of reasoning for AfD. Tevildo 03:49, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom-DESU 23:17, 23 December 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.