Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Freelancin' Roundtable

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The result was delete. PhilKnight (talk) 00:50, 11 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Freelancin' Roundtable

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This phone modem based bulletin board system operated in Texas for 3 years in the 1980's. The article is interesting, but the subject does not appear to satisfy notability. I could find one author who mentioned it at Google Scholar, nothing at Google News archive or Google Books other than mentions apparently derived from the Wikipedia article. Maybe someone can find reliable sources other than under the article title such as [1]. It reads like a personal reminiscence. Edison (talk) 22:04, 3 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Technology-related deletion discussions. -- Jujutacular ^talk 00:57, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Wikipedia is not for fan pages, even of obscure and long-deceased BBS'. Good work in picking up these articles that have moldered far too long, Edison. Ravenswing 16:22, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The fact that the first cited source points back to Wikipedia as the ___location for primary source material tells us that this is an abuse of Wikipedia to publish primary source material, just because it's a wiki that is open for editing. Wikipedia is not a free WWW hosting service not a publisher of first instance. It's an encyclopaedia, a tertiary source. Please get your original histories of bulletin board systems published properly, through the usual channels for recording history. A tertiary source encyclopaedia is not the place for documenting the undocumented. Delete. Uncle G (talk) 13:29, 6 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete someone may want to include mention of this in a more general article about the evolution of chat systems from their beginnings. However, using Wikipedia to advance one's own material or view is not acceptable. And the problem with doing this is that other cites echo Wikipedia articles, and even some printed books use the "free" encyclopedic content here at Wikipedia. This means editors have a responsibility to ensure the articles they write are properly sourced - at least to some degree. As per Uncle G this is not the place for documenting the undocumented (well said Uncle G). ---- Steve Quinn (talk) 04:16, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If this page does not meet the requirements for existing here, so be it. Delete it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ken444444 (talk • contribs) 20:47, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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