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Revision as of 10:02, 30 December 2006 editG.W. (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers13,928 edits Additional note.← Previous edit Revision as of 10:14, 30 December 2006 edit undoSmee (talk | contribs)28,728 edits NotabilityNext edit →
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:Good luck on everything! ] 09:59, 30 December 2006 (UTC) :Good luck on everything! ] 09:59, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
:I'm still surprised this page exists. Didn't the past few Deletion Reviews go the other way? Or did I miss something? ] 10:02, 30 December 2006 (UTC) :I'm still surprised this page exists. Didn't the past few Deletion Reviews go the other way? Or did I miss something? ] 10:02, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
::I have no idea, I was not involved with that. There was a talk page earlier which discussed that, but it was deleted. Interesting enough as it is to delete and protect a page from ever being re-created, it is even more suspicious to delete the ''talk-page'' about that article, so that editors cannot even discuss the ''potential'' need for the article. All very interesting. ] 10:14, 30 December 2006 (UTC).

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Notability

I believe the issue is, was, and continues to be, the lack of reliable, independent third-party sources which speak of ED in such a fashion that might allow the construction of an encyclopedic article by themselves. No matter how many offhand mentions, parallels, or quotations one may find regarding ED, unless one could construct a wikipedia article about ED from them, and from them alone, they are useless. It's not a WP:N thing, it's more a WP:V thing, by way of WP:RS. AS a sidenote, none of the above sources provides justification for ED under WP:WEB's criteria, so notability questions remain unanswered. Until such time as useful policy-compliant sources are provided, this article will probably remain in a type of wiki-limbo, interspersed with periods of brimstone and hellfire. Oh, and we still can't link to the website, as per Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/MONGO#Links to ED.
Good luck on everything! Geuiwogbil 09:59, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
I'm still surprised this page exists. Didn't the past few Deletion Reviews go the other way? Or did I miss something? Geuiwogbil 10:02, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
I have no idea, I was not involved with that. There was a talk page earlier which discussed that, but it was deleted. Interesting enough as it is to delete and protect a page from ever being re-created, it is even more suspicious to delete the talk-page about that article, so that editors cannot even discuss the potential need for the article. All very interesting. Smeelgova 10:14, 30 December 2006 (UTC).