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The result was redirect to Internet pornography.  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:18, 31 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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A page of statistics is unnecessary. This page is almost guaranteed to be some form of "trivia" list regardless of its content or form. EDIT: From WP:Indiscriminate: "Excessive listings of statistics. Long and sprawling lists of statistics may be confusing to readers and reduce the readability and neatness of our articles. In addition, articles should contain sufficient explanatory text to put statistics within the article in their proper context for a general reader." There is no purpose in recreating a page on pornography just to support a list of stats. It should be the other way around. --Jprg1966 ^(talk) 01:48, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• DeleteMerge and Redirect - The references in the article are about pornography, not statistics. Although the references may contain statistics related to pornography, that is not their central topic. Their central topic is porn, and the statistics are used to back up whatever thesis they are promoting. As such, the contents of this page should be merged into Pornography or other related pages. Ebikeguy (talk) 02:27, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep or Rewrite 1) These is big part of internet today and stat page has its scope. 2) See those references, most of those references are related 3) See in sources too (Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) --Tito Dutta ✉ 04:07, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Of course pornography is a big part of the Internet today, but pornography statistics is not a big part of the Internet. There is no Department of the Pornography Statistics at any university. --Jprg1966 ^(talk) 07:20, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep The content is categorized. The statistics reflect a real world issue with a statistically important base. You might not like the information, but that does not mean it need be removed. Perhaps we should consider something like leprechauns or unicorns; the stats might be in question on those.Ren99 (talk) 04:32, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have no opinion on the validity or quality of the information. I'm just wondering what the heck a random list of statistics about a broader topic is doing as its own page. The important stats should be merged into other articles and the useless stuff has no place on Wikipedia. There is no encyclopedic value in listing that "Every second, 372 people are typing the word 'adult' into search engines," regardless of whether that claim is sourced. --Jprg1966 ^(talk) 07:20, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Partial merge to pornography or similar articles. Some of it is useful, some is trivia. It's going to be a bit of work to merge, but we should try to preserve info where possible. --Colapeninsula (talk) 10:33, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Merge - A list of factoids. Not an encyclopedic topic. Merge appropriate material to pornography. Carrite (talk) 16:19, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and redirect to Internet pornography, which is a good fit.  --Lambiam 16:21, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been added to the WikiProject Pornography list of deletions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:24, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 16:25, 23 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge with pornography or internet pornography. A whole page of statistics is unnecessary, but properly-presented statistics offer readers a useful and inherently objective ("numbers do not lie", if you will) way to learn about something.  dalahäst ^{(let's talk!)} 08:18, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge and redirect to Internet pornography, as suggested above. Cavarrone (talk) 18:48, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Article creator's comments:

1. I started this article but could not continue, currently it is a stub/start class article. But, more content can be added there. So, don't only see content, also see scope.
2. Should not be merged with pornography, since those are on Internet pornography and not all type of pornography.
3. The article is created as a sub-article of internet pornography
4. I tried to avoid backdated information and added only recent statistics (2011–now). If I can add 2007–2008 stats I can add many more important point. --Tito Dutta ✉ 20:59, 28 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge with internet pornography: Very fascinating and insightful. I would say this would work best as part of that page, possibly as its own "statistics" section, or else broken up and the various statustics being used to support various statements within the article.--Coin945 (talk) 05:00, 30 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.