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The result was delete. § FreeRangeFrog croak 17:14, 11 June 2014 (UTC) reply

Youflik (social networking site)

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Social networking website that does not appear to meet WP:NWEB or WP:GNG. The article claims that this is the first Indian social networking website - that is clearly incorrect, BIGADDA for instance existed well before Youflik did ( [1]), and that's just one example that I found after a short search. The claim that the site has 16,000 users is difficult to verify - there are no sources for the claim in any case. I can't find any significant coverage of the website in the press. There are a few articles about the launch of the site, some of which appear to be based on press releases, some of which seem original, but it's not enough to meet WP:GNG as far as I can see. bonadea contributions talk 16:10, 4 June 2014 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of India-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 17:29, 4 June 2014 (UTC) reply
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Business-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 17:29, 4 June 2014 (UTC) reply
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Websites-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k ( talk) 17:29, 4 June 2014 (UTC) reply
  • Delete non-notable website. PaintedCarpet ( talk) 19:29, 4 June 2014 (UTC) reply
  • Delete as non notable website. per above →Davey2010→ →Talk to me!→ 22:41, 4 June 2014 (UTC) reply
  • Delete. There are two Times of India articles about the the site (a 2012 one on the youflik.cu.cc version, and 2013 one on the youflik.com version], a The Hindu article, an Udayavana article, a DaijiWorld article, and many other well-established sources. However, all of these seem to be about the launch or relaunch of the site, published the week in which the two versions of the site were launched, making them somewhat of a "single-event" ( WP:ONEEVENT) story without the ongoing coverage needed for notability. The depth of coverage seems shallow as well; while the articles are about on the website and its creator, they don't go into much detail, and are very duplicative. I get the feeling newspapers simply regurgitated information from press releases issued by the company, without gathering or fact-checking information themselves, though that's speculation and doesn't matter for Wikipedia's notability criteria. I am not counting the cited digitfreak.com reference as a reliable source, as that seems like a blog. Agyle ( talk) 23:34, 4 June 2014 (UTC) reply
  • Delete. Coverage seems routine and not really helpful in establishing notability. Article can be recreated later if it get more significant coverage. I agree that the current coverage looks to be basically press releases and blogs. NinjaRobotPirate ( talk) 14:33, 5 June 2014 (UTC) reply
  • Delete Non-notable with limited press coverage. Also clear conflict of interest of major contributors to this wiki. Cowlibob ( talk) 10:22, 7 June 2014 (UTC) reply
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