Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/WIL WHEATON dot NET

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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 of the debate was - kept

[edit] WIL WHEATON dot NET

Poorly named article about whiz kid Wesleys actors blog. Delete because Wikipedia is not a web directory. jni 15:19, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

  • Either keep, or merge and Redirect to Wil Wheaton. Also, this *is* quite a notable blog, several thousand readers daily - Alexa ranking of 62,137, which I think may be notable enough for wikipedia. Darksun 15:55, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • What Darksun said. Sjc 16:00, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect. —Rory ☺ 16:19, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep. Will Wheaton dot net is probably the most widely read celebrity blog. Alexa ranks it as the second most visited "Net Legends" site: http://www.alexa.com/browse/categories?catid=348059 --DDG 17:44, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)
  • Delete. Do not keep -- this is badly named and nobody will find it here. The will wheaton page is enough for him. --Improv 19:30, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    This is the correct title for the site, people very well might find it here. —siroχo
  • Delete and merge - no redirect. The blog is indeed notable and deserves mention on Wil Wheaton's page, but this article's title is poorly named that no one would search for it under that name. Ian Pugh 19:53, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • It is in fact the name of the site. If it were to be kept, that would be the correct article title. I just don't think it should exist outside of the Wil Wheaton article. —Rory ☺ 20:28, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)
      • Curses, Rory. You keep catching me on this. Thanks for the various heads-up. I realized that it was the real title of the blog, but my main issue was its too-odd capitalization, but I see it's got a better redirect. Because of this, I'll change my vote to Merge and redirect. Ian Pugh 21:04, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep, since its the proper title for the article. People please do even a tiny bit of research before voting on VfD, this is the correct title for a notable blog. —siroχo 21:00, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)
    • Where is the policy about "correct title" for articles about websites in this web guide^H^H^H^H^H^H, eh Wikipedia? This could very well be named wilwheaton.net, since that's the *name* of the site. (Poor Wesley should learn to capitalize correctly, IMHO). Since this is at least semi-notable, I change my vote to merge and redirect to Wil Wheaton. jni 05:45, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
      • With all due respect it's pretty easy to establish the correct title. Go and look at the site. It's clearly labelled as WIL WHEATON dot NET. wilwheaton.net is just the domain name. —Rory ☺ 08:17, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep seems notable. - SimonP 22:10, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)
  • Merge without Redirect to Wil Wheaton. [[User:Norm|Norm]] 22:57, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect to Wil Wheaton. Personal blog, but very notable. -- Netoholic @ 00:03, 2004 Oct 10 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect: Our first letters aren't case sensitive, but our users are civilized enough not to type in all caps for the second whole word and the fourth, but not the third. Goofy. A nice thing to have in the Wil Wheaton article. Geogre 00:51, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
    • To reiterate, this is why I was against a redirect originally; but then I discovered it had a proper redirect. It's an odd title, correct though it may be. Ian Pugh 16:23, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect. Make it so. --Viriditas 04:11, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep or redirect - notable weblog. -- Cyrius|✎ 20:14, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect. Taco 02:51, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep. The site is definitely popular enough to pass the notability threshold, even if people (like the user who posted this VfD) still insist of referring to Wheaton as "whiz kid Wesley" (despite the fact that he's now in his 30s). ~leif 08:50, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep - correct name, famous website. Obvious, surely? James F. (talk) 11:52, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Merge and redirect. This does not need its own entry. --YUL89YYZ 19:27, Oct 14, 2004 (UTC)
  • Keep - I'll second James F. on this one: Correct name, famous website. --ElfWord 14:41, 19 Jun 2005 (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.