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Head-fi

An internet forum for the headphone enthusiust community. Speedy deleted twice on notability grounds. Article is being re-created despite notability advice given. Bringing to AfD to determine if any notability exists at all. -- Longhair 09:03, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Strong Keep This is a notable website and community. According to Amazon.com, Head-Fi.org has an average traffic rank of 8,634. [1] Its forum has over 40,000 members, I think that's notable. Dionyseus 09:37, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. The article is blatant vanispamcruftisement, list of moderators, pleading against deletion inserted into the article itself (in bold) and all. Number of forum members and Amazon rank, whatever that actually means, are not indicators of notability - multiple verifiable non-trivial third-party coverage is necessary to meet WP:WEB. Amazon.com reviews don't count (they can be written by anyone and are trivial). The closest we come is "Described by HeadRoom Corporation as "the center of the universe for headphone enthusiasts" [2], which doesn't focus on the forum - it's covered in the final paragraph. Even if you consider that non-trivial, we still fail the "multiple" criterion of WP:WEB. I searched on Factiva and found nothing but passing mentions - nothing on which to build an article. The article that came to came closest to covering the forum was from 2002, which wrote a bit about the forum though its focus was on a headphone trade show. It said little more about the forum than that it had 3,000 members - obviously more users have registered since then, but whether it has more regular members is a different matter, and no sources seem to have taken especial notice if they have. The ground rule is - if they're really that notable, someone unrelated to the website will create an article. Oh, and there are no articles linking to this one. --Sam Blanning(talk) 09:52, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment An average of about 2.2 million posts daily is quite notable for a forum. [3] Dionyseus 10:02, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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