The result was Keep. There is reasonable disagreement regarding the question of whether reliable sources are provided, and whether notability conferred by forking from Wikipedia constitutes some sort of self-reference and/or conflict of interest. However, it is clear that consensus to delete will not emerge from this discussion; although consensus can change, the extensive record of past nominations concerning precisely the same questions suggests that the community's feelings on this article are unlikely to shift. Further nominations are discouraged, absent new information, or new arguments. Xoloz 15:42, 8 September 2007 (UTC) reply
Wikinfo has previously been nominated for deletion four times, and honestly in every one of them I don't see any actual claim to notability. The only arguments I see on the side of keep are:
Now, there are only two reliable sources I see on Wikinfo that mention it at all, and the name only appears three times in one paragraph, while the article is actually about Wikipedia. This almost certainly qualifies it as a "trivial mention" at best. A quick look at google shows no reliable sources in the first five pages, which there almost certainly would be. A Google News search returns zero results, and a Google scholar search returns only one thing (other than our existing sources) which, and I'm not even sure if it's a reliable source, given it's in German, again only mentions Wikinfo twice, in a single paragraph.
I've seen absolutely nothing to suggest that this page is being kept for anything but WP:ILIKEIT, WP:USEFUL, and WP:OHHEYTHEYRETALKINGABOUTUS. Furthermore, even their own main page has red links to fairly major topics, as well as a redlinked project page. I have seen absolutely nothing that makes me think this article is a "Special Case" that gets to ignore our notability requirements, and a lot that makes me think that people are only voting keep because they are an offshoot of ourselves. If being an offshoot of Wikipedia is the only reason they are mentioned, Merge it with Wikipedia, and watch it get worked out of that article. I'd be more than happy to keep this if it had more than trivial mentions, or mention at all in the press. However, it does not and should be deleted for a total lack of reliable sources, or any proof of notability under WP:WEB. lucid 12:45, 1 September 2007 (UTC) reply
The result was Keep. There is reasonable disagreement regarding the question of whether reliable sources are provided, and whether notability conferred by forking from Wikipedia constitutes some sort of self-reference and/or conflict of interest. However, it is clear that consensus to delete will not emerge from this discussion; although consensus can change, the extensive record of past nominations concerning precisely the same questions suggests that the community's feelings on this article are unlikely to shift. Further nominations are discouraged, absent new information, or new arguments. Xoloz 15:42, 8 September 2007 (UTC) reply
Wikinfo has previously been nominated for deletion four times, and honestly in every one of them I don't see any actual claim to notability. The only arguments I see on the side of keep are:
Now, there are only two reliable sources I see on Wikinfo that mention it at all, and the name only appears three times in one paragraph, while the article is actually about Wikipedia. This almost certainly qualifies it as a "trivial mention" at best. A quick look at google shows no reliable sources in the first five pages, which there almost certainly would be. A Google News search returns zero results, and a Google scholar search returns only one thing (other than our existing sources) which, and I'm not even sure if it's a reliable source, given it's in German, again only mentions Wikinfo twice, in a single paragraph.
I've seen absolutely nothing to suggest that this page is being kept for anything but WP:ILIKEIT, WP:USEFUL, and WP:OHHEYTHEYRETALKINGABOUTUS. Furthermore, even their own main page has red links to fairly major topics, as well as a redlinked project page. I have seen absolutely nothing that makes me think this article is a "Special Case" that gets to ignore our notability requirements, and a lot that makes me think that people are only voting keep because they are an offshoot of ourselves. If being an offshoot of Wikipedia is the only reason they are mentioned, Merge it with Wikipedia, and watch it get worked out of that article. I'd be more than happy to keep this if it had more than trivial mentions, or mention at all in the press. However, it does not and should be deleted for a total lack of reliable sources, or any proof of notability under WP:WEB. lucid 12:45, 1 September 2007 (UTC) reply