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[edit] Speedy Deletion

I believe this article was deleted too hastily, on the grounds of significance. Livemocha is the first major language learning tool based on Web 2.0 technologies. Livemocha:

• Covers six of the worlds most used languages
• Has a $6 million startup
• Was featured in the New York Times (Learning From a Native Speaker, Without Leaving Home, February 17, 2008) and the Wall Street Journal (What's New - Breaking the Language Barrier, January 28, 2008)
• Is in plenty of other press (http://www.livemocha.com/pages/press)
• Is easily Seattle's top startup (John Cook's Venture Blog)
• Is totally unique in its approach to language learning, which is a multi-billion dollar business worldwide.
• Has over 200 000 users from over 200 countries as of February (http://blog.livemocha.com/). Yes, this is according to the site themselves but Alexa backs them up.

I believes that this qualifies for significance due to:

...web-specific content is deemed notable based on meeting any one of the following criteria.

1. The content itself has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the site itself.
   • This criterion includes reliable published works in all forms, such as newspaper and magazine articles, books, television documentaries, websites, and published reports by consumer watchdog organizations.

I agree that these references weren't all in the article. But then, people have to sleep and this article was deleted with less than a few hours notice! In the future I'll pad articles out more before creating them. I must say though, speedy deletion means what it says!

I've placed a copy on my user page at User:Roobz/Livemocha. Please feel free to help with getting it up to the proper standings to see it reincluded. I will leave it there until a consensus is reached as to reinclusion or not in Wikipedia.
--Roobz (talk) 22:52, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

I believe changes to the article now address any significance elegibility concerns. I've checked with User:Moonriddengirl (administrator), who gave me a a good deal of help on what changes to make. Now lets get this baby up to Good Article status! --Roobz (talk) 02:40, 18 April 2008 (UTC)