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Wikispaces (a PBWiki competitor) had our Wikipedia entry deleted in August 2006. At the time we were non-notable and had a medium- to low-quality entry written
by jbyers 18y ago
Wikispaces (a PBWiki competitor) had our Wikipedia entry deleted in August 2006. At the time we were non-notable and had a medium- to low-quality entry written by others. During our deletion process, we argued that it was perfectly reasonable that Wikipedia delete our article, but it seemed quite unreasonable to single us out of a dozen other non-notable wiki farms (not to mention hundreds of other non-notable websites) that were not being considered for deletion. The response from the AfD commentors was in essence, "fine, go ahead and propose deletion for the wiki farms you think don't belong". We of course had no interest in doing that.
I was upset for some time that our article was deleted, but I'm not anymore. Wikipedia's standards don't work for small companies. In August 2006 when our article was deleted, we had less than 100,000 users and 50,000 wikis. Today we have 1.4M users, 595,000 wikis, and a healthy and growing business. A Wikipedia entry might be nice to have, but it doesn't have anything to do with how we serve our customers and build our business.