Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikihowto (2nd nomination)

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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. —Quarl (talk) 2007-03-03 07:49Z

[edit] Wikihowto

Wikihowto (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs)
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Unencyclopedic article on a non-notable wikia project; content simply copied from site's welcome & help pages. Fails WP:WEB. Earlier version deleted a year ago at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/WikiHowTo. ZimZalaBim (talk) 22:26, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

  • It's as encyclopedic as I know about the subject. There are other how-to sites that have articles: eHow,wikiHow & HowStuffWorks. I skimmed a little about wikia projects. I think they all have advertisers. I noticed eHow has articles like How to French Kiss. I wonder if it has a disclaimer about doing that. Think of the germs and the teeth. What if the other person sneezed . . . or had epilepsey. -- Chuck Marean 02:51, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
      • At first glance, those other articles appear to satisfy WP:WEB due to having "been the subject of multiple and non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the site itself." If not, then perhaps they are also candidates for deletion. Regardless, just because other stuff exists doesn't mean this article should. --ZimZalaBim (talk) 06:14, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
    • You know you can't catch epilepsy from kissing someone, right? And what exactly has that got to do with whether this article should be kept or deleted? "It is encyclopedic because I know about the subject" is a form of "I like it" statement, an argument that holds no water in AfD debates. If you believe this article should be kept, you should specify which Wikipedia policies it meets. Specifically showing how it meets the criteria laid out in the notability guidelines for websites Gwernol 03:02, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete fails WP:WEB as noted by the nominator. Gwernol 03:02, 1 March 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.