Talk:Sailwx
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[edit] Importance or Notability
I will put together an encyclopedic paragraph for the article on why this service is important or notable. Sorry for any bother; I was unaware that such was required and I guess I thought the notability of such a real-time mapping service would be obvious, and of great interest to the Wikipedia community. I have used the sailwx site for several years now to get a handle on shiping in congested areas, especially around the time of several of the recent maritime piracy incidents in the contested Malaccan Straits. I was, quite frankly, very surprised to find that Wikipedia had no information about the service at all today when I tried to learn more about it. My goal is to create an informative and encyclopedic stub about the sailwx service, not about merely a website. Just for reference, Wikipedia already has four pages that have a link to sailwx.info for ship or drilling platform location information, but no page that tells what sailwx is all about. That strikes me as a deficiency, and that is why I took the time to creat a reasonably well-wikified intial stub for it. N2e (talk) 22:57, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
- I have updated the article to attempt to add a rationale for importance per request by User:Jfire, the editor who requested the speedy deletion. A second reason to have an article on Sailwx is that other Wikipedia articles already contain links to this service. Prior to my addition of the the new article on the Sailwx service a few hours ago, there were four extant Wikipedia articles that reference the Sailwx ship location service:
- This article therefore provides useful context for those articles and any other uses of this service on Wikipedia.
- For the record I should state here that I have no conflict of interest in initiating an article on the Sailwx service. I am merely an occasional Wikipedia editor who has used this tremendously interesting ship locaton service on a number of occasions and thought that this encyclopedic information should be available on Wikipedia. N2e (talk) 00:59, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
