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I am grateful that time has been given. The first two delete markers were put up by people who claimed it was 'obvious' that the article exists to promote a commercial product. The first line the article says "BeerXML is a free, fully defined XML data description standard..." So its obvious that the first two attempts at speedy deletion were utterly wrong. Who are these people? The third delete marker appeared before I had finished dealing with the first two. Notability is in the eye of the beholder in this case. However BeerXML is used by several web sites, several software packages (commercial and open source) and an increasing series of apps. Between them these sites and applications have 6 figures of users. I don't know if that helps. |
I am grateful that time has been given. The first two delete markers were put up by people who claimed it was 'obvious' that the article exists to promote a commercial product. The first line the article says "BeerXML is a free, fully defined XML data description standard..." So its obvious that the first two attempts at speedy deletion were utterly wrong. Who are these people? The third delete marker appeared before I had finished dealing with the first two. Notability is in the eye of the beholder in this case. However BeerXML is used by several web sites, several software packages (commercial and open source) and an increasing series of apps. Between them these sites and applications have 6 figures of users. I don't know if that helps. |
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I think I will probably refrain from starting new pages in future as there seem to be a small army of people who revel in deleting the efforts of others. Having looked at the user page for one individual today I was shocked at the nastiness and abusiveness they displayed towards those who enquired about their actions. Frankly, they seem unhinged. |
I think I will probably refrain from starting new pages in future as there seem to be a small army of people who revel in deleting the efforts of others. Having looked at the user page for one individual today I was shocked at the nastiness and abusiveness they displayed towards those who enquired about their actions. Frankly, they seem unhinged. [[User:PrivateWiddle|Devils In Skirts!]] ([[User talk:PrivateWiddle|talk]]) 01:53, 12 February 2014 (UTC) |
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Unsourced, unref'd, fails to meet any known notability criteria Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi 17:46, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
This is the third attempt in 30 minutes to delete this page, and I have spent more time staving off attempts to delete it than actually writing it. I might be able to actually reference the article if I were allowed to work on it.
This behaviour is getting out of control and is highly detrimental to the encouragement of contributions. Devils In Skirts! (talk) 17:53, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
- Comment I can't see any evidence that this is notable from googling (and reading the article). But since there may be coverage in specialist publications, I suggest we give PrivateWiddle a few days to try to prove notability. It's evidently not a get-rich-quick scheme, and there could be more communication and understanding on all sides. --Colapeninsula (talk) 18:13, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
- Userfy - Articles that aren't ready to be articles can be built in user space without constant fear of deletion. Once they are ready, then they can be moved to article space. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 19:32, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
- Userfy or move into Draft space. The PROD and AfD nominations came 18 and 32 minutes after article creation, which is a bit fast; better could have been to first tag the article for notability, or better yet, contact the creator with noted concerns. BeerXML is a real thing [1] and is in use by organizations like BeerSmith. I don't know if it is notable, but the creator should be allowed time to develop the article and make their case for notability. This would be best done by either moving the article to PrivateWiddle's user space (userfy) or to move the article to Draft space. --Mark viking (talk) 21:35, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
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I am grateful that time has been given. The first two delete markers were put up by people who claimed it was 'obvious' that the article exists to promote a commercial product. The first line the article says "BeerXML is a free, fully defined XML data description standard..." So its obvious that the first two attempts at speedy deletion were utterly wrong. Who are these people? The third delete marker appeared before I had finished dealing with the first two. Notability is in the eye of the beholder in this case. However BeerXML is used by several web sites, several software packages (commercial and open source) and an increasing series of apps. Between them these sites and applications have 6 figures of users. I don't know if that helps.
I think I will probably refrain from starting new pages in future as there seem to be a small army of people who revel in deleting the efforts of others. Having looked at the user page for one individual today I was shocked at the nastiness and abusiveness they displayed towards those who enquired about their actions. Frankly, they seem unhinged. Devils In Skirts! (talk) 01:53, 12 February 2014 (UTC)