Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Novelguide

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 was delete. Black Kite (t) (c) 11:48, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Novelguide

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Speedy declined for CSD-A7, requesting deletion as it is not notable. Dusti^*poke* 20:56, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete Co-nom per IRC. Don't believe this meets requirement for inclusion. Article is short, and appears to be an orphan. AndrewN ^talk 21:02, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

d: as nom as nom Dusti^*poke* 21:03, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I wrote this article as there are many links to it from here on wikipedia in other peoples articles. Also the site has a lot of references in google books. Last point... I saw that microsoft has it as a "top 14 web site" for students. AbbyWaters (talk) 22:13, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 02:04, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - non-notable website with no significant sources, just listings in directories and the like. --Orange Mike | Talk 01:02, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I was going back-and-forth over this. I see now that others agree with my initial assessment. Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 ^{> haneʼ} 01:11, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Might be useful, but largely non-notable. Not to mention that it's overly promotional and has been spammed on Wikipedia. (the site itself) Netalarm^talk 02:54, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The producers on Broadway of "Inherit the Wind" used the site's material and put a "thank you" in it's Playbill with reference to Novelguide. I've added this fact to the article. Everyone who went to the play saw the study material and saw that it was from Novelguide. This is where I first became aware of the site.... Sounds notable to me. Please tell me what I'm missing or reconsider the delete... AbbyWaters (talk) 03:02, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's no evidence of notability; the producers may have paid for that insertion, or been reimbursed for the use of their materials by the "product placement." --Orange Mike | Talk 17:09, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To touch on the topic of notable, I added to the article that the Jefferson county public library recommends this novelguide site. Jefferson has a population of over 500,000 AbbyWaters (talk) 04:07, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's only one step above "this book is notable because it's in my local library"; not evidence of notability in any way. Please, please read WP:N more closely. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:09, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I'm looking at articles here on wikipedia that have issues like we are discussing here. I found one where the topic go lots of brief metion but in a seemingly trivial fashion. Here's the link to a discussion for the Hitler's dog article. There was a debate as to if a lot of brief mentions constitutes keeping the artile. In the end the article remains... Blondi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Blondi AbbyWaters (talk) 17:22, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep notable as shown by at least one good reference. DGG ( talk ) 22:39, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per the lack of reliable sources. The coverage in the reference to which DGG refers is a directory. I have searched Google Books and have only able to find directory listings or passing mentions. This topic fails Wikipedia:Notability and Wikipedia:Notability (web). Cunard (talk) 09:00, 31 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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