About a month ago, Andy Dingley put up Danny Sullivan’s Wikipedia page as up for deletion.
The reason it was posted? Andy wrote, “a web SEO salesman, not surprisingly, has acquired a WP article. Yet the article fails to clearly demonstrate WP:BLPN notability, mostly due to the quality of the sources used. A Google footprint is not the same thing as a notable career, of encyclopedic merit.”
Anyone who spent two minutes researching the SEO industry would know that (1) Danny doesn’t sell SEO services and (2) without him, the SEO industry would not be where it is today – he basically invented the industry.
Reading through the talk page about his second nomination for deletion is pretty funny. But also shows how oblivious Wikipedia can be about specific topics.
Even Matt Cutts from Google chimed in, in Danny’s defense:
If Danny is not notable when referencing the SEO/SEM or even search industry, then who is?
Truth is, I doubt Danny cares one way if he has a Wikipedia entry or not, but this just seems a bit insane.
Oh, I wouldn’t recommend a flood of SEOs going there and defending Danny. It might have a reverse impact and bug them.
Forum discussion at Wikipedia.
