Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/¡El Toro Loco!

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.

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¡El Toro Loco!

Spam-like advertising for a "free-for-all" web forum. Suggest deletion. 69.236.184.108 01:45, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete NN, per nom. Olorin28 03:11, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete
  CVU) 06:58, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply
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• Delete spam. --
  Bachrach44 16:01, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply
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• El Picadore: Umm, a collection of zanies who enjoy each others' company as adolescence ends and maturity begins. A touching case, but Wikipedia is not a web guide, and nothing sets this group above the hundreds of very similar cases, so delete. Geogre 18:02, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: spam. --Mecanismo 23:04, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Um.... then why do other forums have article entries (i.e. the GameFAQs and IGN forums)? Other websites have articles too. I'm not sure I understand why this one is being targeted. 67.84.213.209 23:52, 5 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
  • I understand your confusion. The reason is that we do allow articles on the most massive, most important of websites, but it isn't a question of numbers. Although some voters will refer to Alexa rank or number of participants, what's at stake, really, is leadership position and effect upon the world. Thus, some site, like GameFAQs, are just plain massive. Others, like IGN, are referred to consistently in magazines and TV shows (TechTV in the US and Canada, e.g.). When a site is referred to in other media, people will have "heard" of it and need an encyclopedia to explain what it is. Thus, Wikipedia does not guide people in general about web contents, but it takes into account those sites that are cultural forces. Geogre 13:33, 6 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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.