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On the Webometrics AfD, the key is that we need both reliable and independent sources to verify the notability of the ranking. Since those articles were written by employees/researchers at Webometrics, they don't qualify as independent. It may be that the site is notable, but we need that evidence to prove it. Does your organization know of any such sources? If you do, I'd be happy to help format the references, add them to the article, and possibly even withdraw the nomination (or at least change my comment to "keep") if it appears you've met our standards for notability. Qwyrxian (talk) 12:18, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
In science no one writes about others work except in Editorials from some journals like Science, Nature, etc. But every single article submitted to a journal pass a peer review which is "independent" (I hope that at least you know how a peer review works) before it is accepted for publication. I don't really know what other sources you need if that has been enough for the scientific community Webometrics editor (talk) 12:41, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
November 2010[edit]
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JohnInDC (talk) 12:31, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
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