Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kosmix
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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 of the debate was delete. - brenneman{T}{L} 12:48, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Advert tag removed without cleanup or rewrite. Gets a few Google hits, but they look like spam. Created by a user whose only other edits seem to be adding links to this; {{advert}} tag removed by user in same netrange as creator. ergot 22:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Kosmix is not a spam site. There was a pretty extensive article about them in the Merc that you can read here: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/13791484.htm. They also won a DEMO god award (http://www.demo.com/demoletter/011116.html#more) and power the search on the Healthcentral network. Article should not be deleted.
- Delete. I originally got involved with this when somebody mentioned it on AfD, asking why this apparant spam was let stand while their article was being proposed for deletion. It does get a few Google news hits, but they seem to all be press releases from Kosmix (and I didn't see any being picked up by any major outlets). Listing here following removal of {{advert}} tag, which indicated to me that if kept, this would always look like spam. Search engine seems to still be in alpha. But, they do have an Alexa ranking of 43,539 (not unusual for spam, and well short of WP:WEB). If this gets kept, it will need a rewrite, and ideally by someone whose IP is not in the 66.253.xxx.xxx range. ergot 22:46, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Delete. Advert. -- Krash (Talk) 18:57, 28 February 2006 (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.