Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The X Factor Fansite
non-notable website (A7) and spam (G7). There is no credible indication of notability and the article is overly promotional. The article claims the site has run from 2001 but, whilst the domain name was first registered on 1 July 2001, http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.thexfactor.com/ the internet archive (which is patchy for this site) shows it only started being used as an X Factor fansite sometime between February and September 2007 (there is no record beyond 2007 to determine whether it remained so). The article page claims it is "one of the highest trafficked fan sites on the internet today" but http://www.blogtopsites.com/sitedetails_3304.html (which the article links to) shows a only few tens of visits per day, and none at all before 19 July, which is when the Wikipedia articles promoting it started being created. Also recommend a block for the article creator for using Wikipedia as a |vehicle for promotion, |personal attacks (eg http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Moxy&diff=prev&oldid=374808439, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/The_X_Factor_Fansite&diff=prev&oldid=374807372) and |canvassing. Note: this user also appears to edit as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/69.235.196.187 69.235.196.187 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Pyknic56 Pyknic56
— User:I42, 18:57, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:SOAP||WP:NPA||WP:CANVASS (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)