User talk:Ensellitis

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[edit] Notability criteria for websites

Because Wikipedia's got no hard and fast rules it's impossible to give an absolute guide to what is and isn't accepted/deleted; some ridiculous pages have survived multiple deletion nominations just because people thought they were funny, and some very long and well written articles are deleted because they violate one guideline or another, or they have the bad luck to be nominated on a day when everyone involved is in a bad temper, or whatever. As regards websites in general, because Wikipedia isn't a directory only articles on websites that are either very important (Myspace, Google etc) or unusual enough to warrant their own article are kept, otherwise the system would be swamped with spam. As generally accepted guidelines, see WP:WEB (particularly the criteria section) and WP:ADVERT; as long as your article fits these guidelines, you'll generally be able to successfully challenge any deletion request successfully. (Read the current Article for Deletion discussions to get an idea of how people think when it comes to the AfD discussions. And remember these aren't votes - one keep request can be enough, providing it's convincing enough to persuade the admin who makes the final decision.

As you probably saw, the deletion discussion will stay up for 5 days, to allow time for the article to improve and/or for you to give reasons to keep it. - Iridescenti (talk to me!) 16:45, 27 March 2007 (UTC)