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[edit] army.ca article

This is a copy from the army.ca talk page, please forgive the duplication.

Thanks for taking the time to contribute in a constructive way to the article. If it does survive the nomination for deletion, it will be largely due to your efforts. I think the article reads quite well thanks to recent edits by you and others, but as indicated, may still fail to meet the notability requirements. The supporting evidence you and others have provided will be quite useful to the debate.

I've taken exception to a couple of things and tried to note why in the edit summaries. I'll do the courtesy of expanding here - stuff that is edited out can be replaced if I've been premature.

I note that geometry.net doesn't "recommend" army.ca but merely includes the site in a long list of sites, including CP Gear - which is not a history or discussion site at all but a vendor of modern tactical equipment. I am of a mind to delete the reference to geometry.net altogether, as simple inclusion on a list of weblinks doesn't imply recommendation or confer notability.

I'm also of a mind to delete the claims on moderation. I'm obviously not unbiased, so have not deleted it though I did feel a caveat was necessary. For the claim to stay, it needs to demonstrated that the "aggressive" moderation style is directly responsible for an improved flow, etc. - claims like that need to be substantiated from external sources (ie a third party discussing the site). I think that is largely intangible and should be deleted. The forums at battlefront.com, by way of comparison, have 20,000 registered users (not sure how many have more than a couple of posts, I think about 5,000 have 10 posts or more) and moderators there have intervened less aggressively (read: less often) and yet the site suffers few locked threads (I suppose the only tangible indication of disruptive activity).

The Benneweis article I deleted because while army.ca is supposedly quoted, the only reference in the footnotes is to the main forum page and not the specific post - it may even be that the info was received from a PM, the article doesn't seem clear.

In any event, thanks to all who have contributed so far. Oh - and thanks for the link to an article on my own site, but canadiansoldiers.com probably wouldn't survive a nomination for deletion either under the current criteria. Though if proving the site is read by people is an indicator of notability, then it probably would - its been mentioned by name in the Globe and Mail and several books, but like army.ca, its mentions seem always to be in passing, and that just seems to be a weak indicator.

Anyway, thanks again for the constructive edits - I hope you'll expand your horizons to more of the military articles at wikipedia as well, your ability to write references will put you ahead of many other editors, and I know your contributions would be more than welcome.Michael Dorosh 14:14, 31 July 2006 (UTC)