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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.

The result of the debate was no consensus to delete, taking into account the "biased" commenters even. W.marsh 00:13, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Serebii.net[edit]

Advertising, not notable enough Wizrdwarts (T|C|E) 20:47, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Delete. Fails WP:WEB as it stands. An important fansite, but just a fansite, by the look of things - and there's considerable precedent for their deletion here. Tevildo 21:01, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Call me biased, but considering this site has more visitors than even the main Pokemon site I daresay it has something to its name that merits its inclusion in Wikipedia. eszett^talk 21:48, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. BIASED ESZETT! Okay, admittedly, so am I. --zuloon
Keep. I agree that the site is notable, and if its article is cleaned up, I think it would be a good addition to Wikipedia. Pacaman 22:32, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Also, Wikipedia has articles on other fansites, such as HrWiki, so why not one on Serebii? Pacaman 19:35, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

~~Weak~~ Delete. Yes, the site does have a lot of information, but it's just another fansite. -- Steel 23:35, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Weak delete changed to delete per ArrEmmDee's comment. -- Steel 19:52, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Most certainly a fansite. It may have a lot of visitors, but more for the community than the lackluster and poorly written site, full of grammatical errors and nothing really unique to the site. Not only that, you let this one stay, other sites will start lining up demanding equal presentation on the wiki. --ArrEmmDee 23:51, 21 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Not Notable Aeon 00:26, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and cleanup, they are plenty notable. Almost every Pokéfan would know about this site. It is somewhat of a fansite, yes, but considering this should make it pretty notable.--Ac1983fan (talk • contribs) 00:43, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I fail to see how this isn't "notable" enough to be kept. Wikipedia regularly updates to include flightly 4chan memes, so why not this? MonsPubis 04:11, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. MonsPubis - account created this morning. Only edits are to this VfD. -- Steel 17:20, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and clean up With the proper adjustments and such, this article should be kept. In it's current state, it should obviously be deleted, due to many false statements. One with experience in and/or on the site should be allowed to edit the page, and only allow that person and perhaps a selection of members of his/her choice to edit the page. I don't mean to segregate Wikipedia, however.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Locke Yggdrasill (talk • contribs) .
Keep and clean up greatly IMO it has the potential to become a good article, but as it stands right now it fails to live up to the criteria. And as a side note...SPPf members here? O_o Blue Mirage 06:08, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Delete. While the site itself is definitely qualified in terms of content, it's still a fansite, and brings no real contribution to us all. User:ArrEmmDee summed it up nicely. Shigaiko 11:10, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I changed my mind, I want to keep the page, but I want the vandals banned!

Comment. Srsly, stop ranting about how your page went bad. It'll be deleted soon enough. Wizrdwarts (T|C|E) 23:53, 22 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep per eszett. Will (message me!) 19:48, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Weak keep, per eszett and Acfan. Alexa rank of 11k is plenty notable imho. ~Chris | e@ 00:21, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete single is a pokémon website. It does not include videogame or it anime in general. --K4zem 09:04, 27 June 2006 (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.