Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Horticube

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The result of the nomination was delete. Jaranda ^{wat's sup} 20:54, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Horticube

Does not meet the guideline for products or services. Forty-four unique google hits, zero "news" hits. Delete unless evidence of multiple non-trival write-ups by third party sources can be produced. - brenneman ^{L} 07:09, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

• Keep Sounds like an important product to me. The word 'horticube' registered 534 google hits, and the word 'oasis cubes' registered 8,150 google hits. Dionyseus 08:11, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
  • That's actually 244 unique results and still zero news. While google numbers are not the hurdle (third part commentary is,) we can provide some other figures to use as a benchmark. The searches on a random three items on my desk right now: "Sixsixone" (my bike helmet) returns 735 unique results, "crumpler bag" (my messenger bag) returns 589 unique as well as one news hit, and "schaum's outline series" (my fluid dynamics handbook from 1967) returns 198 unique results. So based on this metric, this is more notable than an obscure thirty year old book on mathematics? - brenneman ^{L} 08:37, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete nn, advertising. Fails WP:CORP for no non-trivial third-party articles regarding this product. 534 Ghits are NOT enough to be notable, in and of themselves. You have to be able to show notability in the type of coverage the company gets - one news article in The Times is good; a million catalog listings are not. Tychocat 09:08, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Strong keep they can be used for growing tomatoes, lettuce, onions, basil, thyme, oregano, Ficus, Spathiphyllum, Ivy, Zinnia, Gerbera, and Roses, and many other crops. Oh, all right Delete Dlyons493 Talk 12:50, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, fails WP:CORP. --Coredesat talk. o.o;; 13:04, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, the Google test should not apply toward horticultural subjects, and unique hits are never an accurate indicator of importance. According to Wikipedia:Search engine test, Microsoft, a subject which one would expect to achieve a large number of unique Google hits, only returns 500. That should not imply that this subject is half as important as Microsoft, but that the test itself is inherently flawed. Yamaguchi先生 17:54, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Comment I'm not sure which test you're referring to. If I do an internal WP search, I get over 16 thousand hits for Microsoft. If I do an internal WP search for Horticube, I get four. If I do a general Google for Microsoft, I get over 2.23 billion hits for the Web. As previously mentioned, Horticube gets... 534? ITychocat 06:35, 11 July 2006 (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.