Talk:Mashable
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[edit] Notability rationale
Before someone tags this for deletion, let me explain why I think this site is notable. So far I haven't found reliable sources which offer substantial coverage, but I think this site merits an exception to notability guidelines based on the following:
- Mashable's Alexa ranking currently under 1,000; see [1]. While Alexa certainly has its inaccuracies, it grows progressively more accurate as you get to the low rankings since the sample size grows fairly large (exceptions for a few sites like Amazon which are closely tied to Alexa, and being in the top 1,000 is really outstanding.
- The site has several million Google hits. Obviously the Google test isn't a great way of gauging significance, but if it were applied to applied to every Wikipedia article, this site would likely get around 1,000 times as many results as the median -- very significant IMO. A few of the first results don't seem to be about the site (might be mistaken), but if you look in the middle, it is clear that the large majority are.
- Numerous Wikipedia articles reference this site already. It would benefit readers to have an article which gives them a brief summary of what it's about.
Again, I acknowledge that I haven't written an article that clearly meets WP:WEB to the letter (I think the NewsWeek link brings it close, but at best still borderline), but I think this merits an exception in the spirit of WP:IGNORE. Any help in sourcing this article would be appreciated -- it's just hard to find good sources among the ~3 million others. — xDanielx T/C 04:19, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] How to Expand?
Just blue-sky pondering how this could be the seed of something ... what if whenever a member Mashable staff edited some relevant WikiPedia page that contribution got listed on your page? "Communicative gesture", yuh know? Community relations + substantial good. --BenTremblay (talk) 21:10, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
