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The result was delete. —
JJMC89 (
T·C) 01:19, 26 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Fails
WP:LISTCRITERIA: the list includes
social networks,
instant messengers, mobile messaging apps, photo sharing sites, etc. It is unclear why all those have been called "virtual communities". What about IRC servers? Or
newsgroups? Or Wikipedia?
It is unclear what "active user" means; the majority of listed sources mention "registered users", but this is not the same.
Why 100 million and not, say, 10 million or a billion? What's so special about 100 million? See
WP:LISTCRITERIA
Good luck with convincing me that Skype, Blackberry messenger or iMessages are "virtual communities". What next,
text messaging? Delete. —
kashmīrīTALK 16:42, 18 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Comment. We have
Virtual community and a very well-populated
Category:Virtual communities, so that is not a term unique to this list FWIW. There might still be an argument that it is too broad of a term to be a useful basis for such a list, but it shouldn't be considered "unclear" what belongs in it unless all of our content under that term is invalid. Also, it seems that
List of virtual communities with more than 1 million users should have also been included in this nom. postdlf (talk) 18:29, 18 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Do not delete, please. Article is useful, even if some information is recorded elsewhere. You can argue about categories indefinitely, but more is better than less. Role of these "groups" has changed and continues to change over time. There will never be a perfect organization of knowledge. This page is useful; I found it from a link on MySpace article and it tells a lot. Are you running out of space that you have to delete things?
Proyster (
talk) 21:37, 21 April 2019 (UTC)reply
Delete. We do not base lists or categories on arbitrary inclusion cutoffs, so maintaining separate lists for "X > 1 million" and "X > 10 million" and "X > 100 million" is not a thing we should be doing.
Bearcat (
talk) 02:57, 23 April 2019 (UTC)reply
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