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[A. J. Raffles]

Yes, sir.

[Abi79]

Again, someone said that the article should be deleted due to the fact that AR is "Non-notable website per WP:WEB, fails to meet any of the criteria".

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Web specific-content is notable if it meets any one of the following criteria:
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The website or content has won a well known and independent award, either from a publication or organisation.

The article itself must provide proof that its subject meets one of these criteria via inlined links or a "Reference" or "External link" section.

As such, I have removed the Concern and added http://www.reloaded.org/awards.php at the External Links section.


Someone hates AR?

[DeathDude]

Thanks Abi for doing that. Yeah seems to be someone very persistent with trying to get the article deleted, that or just someone on wikipedia who is acting very strict with the rules.

[A. J. Raffles]

Well, I suppose it's a mark of quality if they're being this fussy about every single entry.

[taikara]

I doubt it's being done because they hate us - as I mentioned earlier in this thread, I'm not sure we do meet the criteria.

Being nominated for DFL awards is great, but I highly doubt the DFL awards count as "well-known". In addition, we have to have actually won the award - we were only nominated (though the note says that being nominated multiple years is also acceptable, but again, we've only been nominated for the one). The rest of the awards featured are not for the site, but for the people - Kosta and Tom.

Furthermore, AFAIK, our site has not been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works, and nor is our content distributed via a site which is well-known and independent of our own (I only know of one re-distributed review showcased on amaranthia.com).

However, the page states that these are only guidelines. If we keep an eye on it and remove any further deletion requests, we may be able to get past them.

[Moogle]

So basically.
If you see any bad talk about it delete it before the high powers see it

[Blood-Pigggy]

I don't understand, there are articles to SEVERAL sites less known than Reloaded, how does this change anything.

[DeathDude]

No idea, either that or someone has been keeping a close eye on the AR page and just trying to be strict with the rules, making sure it adheres to the standards of wikipedia.

[A. J. Raffles]

Well, at least someone finally gave a better reason than just "the traffic ranking isn't high enough"... I suppose there's nothing to stop us from moving the article into some subparagraph of the AB entry, but it's still a bit annoying. Obviously there ARE no awards for freeware sites that would qualify as noteworthy enough in the eyes of that deletion-bloke (who, by the way, doesn't know the difference between its and it's - tsk, tsk).
Oh well.

[Abi79]

http://en.wikipedia....ndonia_Reloaded

[A. J. Raffles]

Well, how awfully nice of him.

Edit: Anyone feel like writing a TTW for this one?

[Abi79]

TTW? What's that?

[A. J. Raffles]

Abi79, on Aug 29 2006, 06:28 AM, said:

TTW? What's that?

Things To Watch. The announcement section on the main site.

[DeathDude]

Heh funny yeah how of all the possible sites on wikipedia, we seem to have the magnifying glass on us.

[A. J. Raffles]

Well, to be fair, I don't think they're really picking on us specifically, but it does seem like it...