Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smartpedia

This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page, if it exists; or after the end of this archived section. The result of the debate was redirect to Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks.  Grue  29 June 2005 20:18 (UTC)

Smartpedia

Insignificant Wikipedia mirror. Jeronim 13:19, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. I agree completely; wondering why no one else is voting on this. It's utterly non-notable. jglc | t | c 18:32, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• undecided. Not sure how to decide whether it is "notable" or not. I think the fact that they replace "wikipedia" by "smartpedia" in their version of our articles is outrageous, but that in itself is not a reason for deletion. In any case, see also Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks/Stu#SmartPedia. -- Austrian 21:12, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • redirect to Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks, following Jeronim's suggestion below. -- Austrian 23:20, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• delete. It is directly related to wikipedia and it may be reasonably argued that this ugly rip-off must be explained somewhere. But if one recalls that something similar may be done by each and every porno site just to attract traffic, there is no notability in the site, not to say that the article is original research, and its correctness may change every moment. mikka (t) 21:46, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• comment -- I'm undecided because, while the site isn't notable, there'd be some value in keeping the article to dispel confusion. Not everyone knows about Wikipedia mirrors. Someone who encountered Smartpedia might be confused about the relationship and come here hoping to find an explanation. Having an article identifying Smartpedia as a copy of Wikipedia, and explaining the GFDL, would clarify matters for such a person. JamesMLane 07:54, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • I'd say I wouldn' want for wikipedia to be identified with smartpedia and the likes. If its articles will carry acknowledgements of wikipedia, we are fine, if not sue them. mikka (t) 18:42, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Actually, smartpedia does write "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" at the beginning of each article, and has a link "source" that points back to wikipedia. -- Austrian 23:20, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

• • Better to redirect Smartpedia and the likes to Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks where each known mirror is listed already, than have hundreds of pages like Smartpedia for mirror sites with only trivial differences. -- Jeronim 02:43, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Insignificant, non-notable, and irrelevant.—Ëzhiki (erinaceus amurensis) 19:56, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

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