Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/WikiMaps

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The result was delete. Lankiveil ^{(speak to me)} 12:39, 15 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WikiMaps[edit]

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Completing on behalf of anon:

I am nominating this article for deletion, per the helpful suggestion of User:Jehochman. It fails the test of A7 - No indication of importance (individuals, animals, organizations, web content, events), and the subject has apparently never been mentioned in any newspaper, ever. The Wikipedia community has taken over 8 years to work on this stub, yet it remains unimportant and unsourced. - 2001:558:1400:10:D4BF:9258:EE2F:4F9A (talk) 19:31, 2 January 2014 (UTC) NeilN ^{talk to me} 20:27, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. I agree with the nominator. Seems like this project is still vibrant (they had a talk at Wikimania in Hong Kong last year: [1]), but there's no evidence this project has received significant coverage in independent, reliable sources. This group is something that is currently and sufficiently represented at Commons:Wikimaps. I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 21:09, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Soft redirect to the relevant page on Commons, perhaps? I concur that there isn't enough for notability. Ansh6 6 6 21:23, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Redirect to commons:Commons:Wikimaps. It is a shame that this has not gotten more press; I cannot find RS sufficient to pass notability either. However, the project exists and "WikiMaps" is a plausible search term, so a redirect to the WikiMaps page on the commons is warranted. Because redirects outside of mainspace are subject to deletion (see WP:R#DELETE), I'm explicitly suggesting to ignore the rules (see WP:IAR) in this case. --Mark viking (talk) 23:34, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 23:52, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Soft redirect to Commons:Wikimaps per above Mark's suggestion. I, JethroBT ^{drop me a line} 16:05, 3 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Not yet notable. IMO, mainspace is not for redirects to our non-notable projects. Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Soft redirect is only 60 pages long, and most of those list to 'content' pages on a sister project; only a few link to a project page on another project. A search of Wikipedia shows that 'Wikimaps' on Wikipedia may also refer to 'Wikimapia' and we also use http://wiki-maps.com/ . This page means it is not easy to search on this term, because this page is shown instead of the search results with other possibilities. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 18:24, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- We could also convert it into a disambiguation page, I guess. Ansh6 6 6 19:31, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - Is the Wikipedia WikiMaps tool notable enough to list on a dab page? If not, we could put a WP:SELFREF on a dab page, or redirect WikiMaps to another page and put a selfref on that? John Vandenberg ^(chat) 04:51, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Delete—Obviously non-notable. It'd be ridiculous to redirect this to the project itself, which is not a Wikipedia page. That is, per John Vandenberg.— alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 18:26, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 18:46, 14 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, As above it's not yet notable. -→Davey2010→→Talk to me!→ 19:05, 14 January 2014 (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.