Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/BoundlessGallery.com

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This article is being cited for spam, however, is it factual and not machine generated. Can someone direct me to what part of the agreement it violates and how I can go about fixing the article?

[edit] Why is Alexa used for Determining Spam?

Some editors use the Alexa ranking to determine whether Wikipedia should have an article, arguing that we should certainly have articles on top 100 sites, possibly have articles on top 1,000 sites, and usually not have articles for sites not in the top 100,000. However, Alexa rankings are not a part of the notability guidelines for web sites for several reasons:

Below a certain level, Alexa rankings are essentially meaningless, because of the limited sample size. Alexa itself says ranks worse than 100,000[6] are not reliable, and some critics feel it is worse than that. Placing cutoffs at 100 and 1000 is arbitrary. Alexa rankings vary over time. Alexa rankings include significant bias. (See below.) Alexa rankings do not reflect whether any source material for constructing an encyclopaedia article actually exists. A highly ranked web site may well have nothing written about it, or a poorly ranked web site may well have a lot written about it. A number of unquestionably notable topics have corresponding web sites with a poor Alexa ranking. [edit] Bias in the Alexa test The Alexa rating includes significant bias, due to various factors. For example, the Alexa software is only available for Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Internet Explorer, and requires installation. So, for instance, a website exclusively devoted to an Apple Macintosh related topic might not have an Alexa ranking that accurately represents its true traffic activity. On the opposite extreme, some webmasters install the Alexa toolbar for the sole purpose of improving their own rankings, by visiting their own web site with it. The Alexa toolbar's user base is small enough, that one frequent visitor can have a noticeable effect on overall results. [7] As well, Alexa does not record visits to encrypted web pages, even though that represents most of the traffic for some web sites.

In addition, many users refuse to install the Alexa toolbar, as they feel the recording of which websites they visit constitutes spyware. Also, due to Alexa's recent plan to sell access to their web index by the hour, many websites with 'noncommercial' licenses have begun blocking Alexa's crawler completely.