Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comparison of ad servers

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 no consensus. postdlf (talk) 22:50, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comparison of ad servers[edit]

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PROD deleted by anonymous user. This is essentially an indiscriminate collection of information, and a huge magnet for spammers and SEO practitioners. Slashme (talk) 15:47, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Advertising-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:51, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:51, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:51, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:51, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:52, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: "Comparison of [topic]" articles are allowed at Wikipedia. See here, here, and here for 3 that I found fairly quickly. Other than the gawd-awful layout of the article being discussed possibly causing blindless (I jest), what is the reason this page should be deleted and the others kept?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidwr (talk) 01:25, 9 September 2015‎

This is basically an other stuff exists argument, but to answer your question, there are a few differences. Filesystems and archive formats don't pop into and out of existence all the time like ad servers; their features are more clearly defined; the page is a morass of external links to commercial services; and sorting out the notability of each individual server would be a heraclean task. --Slashme (talk) 06:16, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Esquivalience ^t 02:06, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Spirit of Eagle (talk) 05:03, 22 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I understand that this is a mess of SEO links and irrelevant ad servers, but I suggest that we leave this entry because it's one of the more useful entries in the ad-server category. Many of the ad servers presented are notable enough to have their own entry here on wikipedia, and I'm sure that all spammy SEO links can be removed from this page. I think it would make sense to remove all external links (other than references), and limit the page to only using internal wikipedia links instead. I am currently working on adding more information on ad servers to wikipedia, and I can volunteer to clean up this page. YeonJKim (talk) 07:58, 22 September 2015 (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.