Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zydeisland

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The result was Delete. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-02-16 02:50Z

Zydeisland[edit]

A search on Google for "Zydeisland" returns 176 hits. "Zyde Island", the phrase, returns 59 results. Most, if not all of these, are self-promotion on web forums. The article claims the site had 16,000 users at its peak, and I would imagine that 16,000 users would account for more Google traffic. The article is mostly the work of one user (User:Ikahootz), and features such elegant prose as "The game won many awards and a quick google search of "ZydeIsland" will show you this and the amount of fans it did have." and "There has always been rumur it may return some day...". Has anyone else even heard of this? Action Jackson IV 01:16, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Delete could not find anything on LexisNexis or Newsbank either. But it is a very sad tale of what can go wrong without backups. -SpuriousQ (talk) 02:14, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, lack of sources indicates vanity/hoax. Kafziel ^Talk 20:52, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as non-notable and possible hoax. MastCell 21:11, 12 February 2007 (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.