Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blogcatalog
the world is moving away from newspapers and magazines, which are Wikipedia's traditional reliable sources, to media that are solely web-based. Sooner or later we are going to have to realize that new media are sufficiently reliable for our purpose. There is a multitude of sites  totally independent of Blogcatalog that are talking about it. Google found about 300,000 hits outside of the Blogcatalog.com domain. Yes, I know that ghits don't count for much, but it should count for something in evaluating this article. Alexa shows that its daily reach has grown about 50% in the last two months.http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/blogcatalog.com It is worldwide - almost 3/4 of its users come from outside the U.S. Its traffic rank is in the top 500 in four countries, including the U.S., and is 601 in the U.K. More than 3400 sites link to it. It '''is''' notable. If our guidelines don't allow us to recognize its notability, then our guidelines need to be modernized (or maybe |ignore the guidelines in detail, while following their intent
— User:Sbowers3, 01:09, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:IAR (Wikipedia:Ignore all rules)