The result was userfy and delete. Page has been moved to User:Rbfisher/CVonline, preserving history. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 15:02, 13 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
(contested prod) promotional article for non-notable web page. Ref is to promotional page by web site's owner and article creator. No other indication of notability and a search turns up nothing. JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds 20:22, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
produces about 19,000 hits. Some of the hits don't seem to contain the string, but most do, ie. they are referencing either the resource as a whole or some of its content. As another measure of impact, there have been 7800 front-page accesses to CVonline since the export of the structure into wikipedia was announced about a month ago.
the external page can eventually be forgotten about and people would use the wikipedia page. I can see the issue of whether it is appropriate for wikipedia.
Here are 3 examples: 1) academic book indices are generally not simply alphabetic lists of words/concepts, but have a hierarchical structuring into subconcepts. 2) Modern versions of the printed Encyclopedia Brittanica included a resource called the Propaedia, with extensive sets of lists. 3) Some of the most useful web pages in my research area are essentially structured collections of links, such as the Kalman Filter homepage, Computer Vision homepage, Face Recognition homepage. It is not a historical anomaly - it is an attempt to help structure snippets of knowledge into usable larger structures. Search engines are great for dealing with flat knowledge resource, but it seems sensible to also exploit human expertise, and wikipedia is less than it could be without them. Rbfisher 07:25, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]