Talk:Amazon Light

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Proposed deletion discussion[edit]

I see this article was proposed for deletion due to a claimed lack of notability. I'm not so sure it should be deleted without prior discussion. My reasons follow.

Amazon Light has been discussed on metafilter (where it was even posted by creator Matthew Haughey).
It has been mentioned on boingboing.
It has also been posted on digg.
It attracted enough attention that google lawyers sent it a cease and desist mail.
Amazon Light 4 won a Technical Achievement award at the South by Southwest web awards in 2005.
It is currently included as one of the Special:Booksources booksellers, which links to this page. I found it a useful link, not knowing what Amazon Light was when I saw it in the list (this is how I came across this article today).
google returns 150,000 results for the phrase "Amazon Light" (with quotes). This is quite substantial even if many of these are duplicates or can otherwise be discounted.

I am therefore removing the prod tag. --David Edgar 16:58, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, just so anyone knows, proposed deletion is for situations where there isn't expected to be a discussion. If one is necessary, it should be escalated to AFD. Since you've added the above to the article, though, there isn't a need for deletion. It's more productive to improve an article when, uh, "prodded", than to argue! I'm looking for a source, but I recall that this site was "unofficially" available before the API went public, and so was one of the first examples of its use (one of the first examples of a third-party site using a web services API, period). OH, and the Google skin wasn't the "original" layout either -- it was the 2.0 edition or around there. --Dhartung | Talk 22:30, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]