Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/College Tonight (2nd nomination)

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 was sigh. By relist, I mean start a brand new AfD and list it on the new AfD page. This one is too convoluted to mean much so it should start from square one. W.marsh 22:58, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

College Tonight

Note This article was originally created by single purpose account User:Thesuchman (a name very similar to one of the site founders), and it is an obvious advertisement. This was enough to successfully speedy Evergreens UK, and this article has itself been Speedied twice before. I've reopened the vote with permission from the closing admin and notified the people who voted Keep the last time around. Even with possibly-valid media mentions, this article is still nothing more than a blatant ad with no prospect of improvement in the forseeable future, and should be removed ASAP. --Arvedui

• Strong delete Fails WP:WEB A two month old web project hasn't any notability. This should be on Google but not in Encyclopedia. Tulkolahten 19:44, 11 November 2006 (UTC) (Original nominator)
• Strong delete Granted, the site has a number of media mentions, but these seem due more to the publicity-savviness of the site's creators than to any actual newsworthiness of the site itself. There really is nothing whatsoever to the article so far that wouldn't apply to just about every other moderately-sophisticated web-forum out there. Also, the original wording of the article (plus the username of the creator) suggests that it was planted in WP by one of the site-founders as a means of boosting their search profile. I don't want to reward that. --Arvedui 23:32, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

Further comment, if there were even a single detail both notable and unique to the site, such as some well-known cultural or internet phenomenon that originated there or an obviously unique net-subculture that inhabits it, I would probably vote to Keep. But as it's basically a two month old dating/party-promotion site, this seems very unlikely. --Arvedui 23:37, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

• This AfD nomination was incomplete. It is listed now. DumbBOT 19:36, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

• Delete Nonnotable website. Edison 16:43, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
• Strong delete. Non-notable website, fails WP:WEB and/or any other notability measurement. The two "reliable independent sources" mentioned in the last AfD were a school newspaper and a syndicated column on msnbc.com. Media mentions do not automatically give a subject notability if the subject itself is obviously non-notable. --- RockMFR 19:54, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

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.