PseudoSherlock

Re: CN and 'notability' -- the big problem is that web sites in general aren't often covered in print unless they get extremely well known or are inherently noteworthy (the "very first" blog, or video-sharing site, or whatever). CN appears (to WP) to be "just another" web game; 5000 users is not a tremendous number compared to some, and apparently either we haven't done enough to explain the novelty or it's not as novel as we'd like to think.

There are plenty of other sites whose articles are *not* recommended for deletion that only reference themselves for info, which seems a bit wrong in terms of verifiability and/or reliable sources. Then again, "but there's other articles about web based games with relatively small player bases, why pick on this one?" isn't going to change the mind of someone who'd prefer that *none* of those articles stay. (Same story on the thousands of articles about tiny towns in random places whose articles consist only of census data and "it's in ___ County" should stay, or the thousands of articles about unremarkable schools. Including, ironically, one which User:Wafulz himself created.) Nobody's going to be covering CN in "Wired" or something for a long time yet, but *if* people agree that that sort of coverage is the standard for what should stay, then it's going to wind up gone. And yes, from WP:WEB it looks as though that's the accepted standard. There's a lot of similar sites with articles on WP, apparently someone just happened to develop a bee in his bonnet about CN. Jaeger5432 | Talk 15:34, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

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