Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Letsrun.com

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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. Sr13 07:42, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Letsrun.com

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delete - site doesn't meet notability requirements for web sites IPSOS (talk) 19:24, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete -- Article discusses the nature of the site, and that's about it. No hard evidence as to popularity, impact or anything else that might make it notable. Cap'n Walker 19:54, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - fails WP:WEB notability standard. -- MarcoTolo 20:43, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete I was suspicious of WP:COI and WP:SPAM, but it's ok on those fronts, still fails on WP:WEB. Eliz81(talk)(contribs) 20:44, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete - Not so sure about WP:COI, but I say we have a case of spam. Fails WP:WEB. --Tλε Rαnδom Eδιτor (ταlκ) 23:24, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete per above; also, a single cite. Bearian 01:16, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep This site is notable enough that international athletes use the message board. Unfortunately the good stuff gets diluted out by the massive amount of noise from teenage runners. It is certainly one of the best known and most popular track and field message board on the internet. I don't have a cite for that statistic but I doubt it is hard to find one. For the record this is what the IAAF says about Letsrun on their own website "LetsRun.com is the premier website in the United States for fans of the top end of the sport."[1] I should add that this link could have been submittted to the IAAF by letrun themselves, although, the IAAF presumably vetted the link and deemed it appropriate. Again, I don't have a cite for that.
On the founders biography, hosted at USATF, the fact that "[Weldon Johson] and his brother created and maintain the distance running Web site LetsRun.com" was deemed worth a mention.[2]
In a case of bad news is publicity (not exactly how one would want to frame this article) there was a controverey involving Letrun with regard to deep-linking carried by USA today and Wired.com.
There is no doubt that this article needs to be improved but it certainly passes the notability bar IMO. I think it is important not to confuse the lack of popularity for track and field in the states (i.e. how many US wikipedians care about track and field), for a lack of notability for things track field. David D. (Talk) 04:56, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete There does appear to be some COI there, normally first names about ownders or websites/organisations aren't put on unless it about say the founder of good, the notability of websites criteria is not met by this article. Rlest 14:12, 21 July 2007 (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.