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Strong keep - Need notability? "The shuttle's name inspired Ward Cunningham to call his new website technology "WikiWikiWeb", from which the concept of wiki software, including Wikipedia, derives." This is ENORMOUSLY documented. Let it snow...
Carrite (
talk) 19:45, 21 July 2010 (UTC)reply
Exactly the argument I was expecting. I already understood that, and the
Wiki article mentions that. However, I couldn't find significant coverage that would lead me to believe that this shuttle service meets the general notability guideline. Do reliable sources address this shuttle directly in detail? I couldn't confirm that. The fact that the name of this company inspired Cunningham is, by itself, a triviality.
SwarmTalk 21:05, 21 July 2010 (UTC)reply
Strong keep for the impact of the name on the "wiki" culture and the internet
LHOON (
talk) 07:05, 22 July 2010 (UTC)reply
Keep per Carrite and LHOON. The wiki's history made this bus service not merely notable, but actually thoroughly noted in media. For example, several books about Wikipedia have been published, and while I haven't read them all, I'm sure they all mention the WikiWiki bus service. Plus, the article is a reasonable and informative text, sourced and encyclopedic in nature. I think deletion's entirely inappropriate. --
Waldirtalk 07:50, 22 July 2010 (UTC)reply
"Significant coverage is more than a trivial mention". Even if they mention the bus service, that doesn't make it notable.
SwarmTalk 22:21, 23 July 2010 (UTC)reply
Strong keep. article has been around forever.
Tlatseg (
talk) 06:19, 26 July 2010 (UTC)reply
That's not a reason to keep this article anymore then just being created would be a reason to delete. --
Ron Ritzman (
talk) 00:13, 28 July 2010 (UTC)reply
Comment. I'm not going to bold the word "keep" here because the nominator has a point. Simply being what inspired the name of the first wiki doesn't cut it as far as
WP:N is concerned. However, if there ever was a situation where we could
IAR and keep an article then this would be it. --
Ron Ritzman (
talk) 00:19, 28 July 2010 (UTC)reply
Keep Clearly notable. I added a few more references. The references at the article do not just "mention" the bus service, they are ABOUT the service. That's not even counting the ten pages of hits at Google Books
[1]. This shuttle service is a part of our history, folks. Show a little respect. --
MelanieN (
talk) 02:58, 28 July 2010 (UTC)reply
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