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Misplaced Pages Watch (2nd nom)

This is a non-notable personal website, started six months ago by one individual. Alexa shows that after a blip in December, traffic has fallen to a trickle . The site fails WP:WEB, and the author himself is of only marginal notability (the site is already covered in his article).

A previous Afd attempt ended without consensus. However, if this website was about anything other than Misplaced Pages, its article would certainly be deleted. Since we avoid self references, the fact that it is about us should not influence the decision. Wiki-community noteriety =! general notability. Yes, Brandt is infamous within Misplaced Pages, and yes, this website 'names' a number of wikipedians (including myself), but that does not make his every action worth an individual article. The detailed blow-by-blow content of this article, describing the history of the website would simply not be tolerated in any other web-related article. The article exists only because of a perceived battle between Brandt and Misplaced Pages, but actually it only serves to feed and exacerbate that same silly foolishness. It feeds trolls, and it is, in itself, basically trolling. --Doc 15:06, 12 April 2006 (UTC) (Additional reason - read it - it's just Brandt's blog) note to closing admin - I'll go for merge as a second choice--Doc 20:33, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete. While Brandt has done a number of things of some minor notability (NameBase, Google Watch, his small role in the Siegenthaler controversy), his rant site is not one of them. WW can be mentioned in a paragraph in his bio but I don't think it merits such comprehensive coverage in its own article. Gamaliel 15:19, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per the nomination and Gamaliel. Disclosure: I'm listed on the site, and this affects my vote not a whit. Mackensen (talk) 15:22, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete. Covered in more-than-sufficient detail in Brandt's article. --- GWO
  • keep - No reason to delete. --Irishpunktom\ 15:34, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Em, actually that's wrong, about half a dozen reasons have been given. So why do you disagree with them? --Doc 15:37, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Google returns the Misplaced Pages article as the first hit. The actual site isn't even in the top twenty. Mackensen (talk) 15:44, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Google returns a USC webpage as top. Clusty puts it top, as does Yahoo. The idea that it is non-notable can be dismissed by the sheer volume of unique google hits it generates. There is "No reason to delete". --Irishpunktom\ 16:16, 12 April 2006 (UTC)