Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bravenet Web Services
Bravenet. When your site is one of the 500 most visited on the internet for a period of years, you are notable.  is helpful but is not all-inclusive, and Bravenet meets at least one of its guidelines. Wikipedia:Notability|WP:Notability says "A topic has notability if it is known outside of a narrow interest group or constituency, or should be because of its particular importance or impact." Bravenet qualifies, as it has been around since 1997, and its software and services underpin many if not most web rings, counters, forums, and guestbooks in the English-speaking web. '''Furthermore''', unlike most webhosts, Bravenet appears in Google News http://news.google.com/news?q=bravenet, as part of the Duke lacrosse players investigation as well as a portal article on creating a website. Not to mention the 14,000,000+ Google results. The lack of mention of something on Google does not indicate lack of notability, nor does a modest presence on Google... but an '''overwhelming''' presence on Google is a sign that it's notable. If anything, the article needs to be expanded to reflect Bravenet's importance to the web. By the way, in the future, please split your AfDs. These are wildly different companies with wildly different notabilities
— User:Captainktainer, 07:51, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:WEB (Wikipedia:Notability)