What we really need though is a sympathetic "Wikipaedo" editor, experience shows you are up against powermad 13 year olds who will not listen to reason, just Jimbo's Hallowed Rulebook.

Wikipedia is another one of these Web 2.0 "authority" sites that once it got big pulled up the drawbridge with its "nofollow" linking policy with the result that the Google "juice" and traffic is sucked only one way..towards Wikipedia of course.

Edit: Sponsor for deletion is an "administrator". So it going to go, despite the fact that by his logic, Wikipedia itself would be un-notable and should delete its own page because most mentions of it go via Jimbo Wales.

Exactly its wikipedia's "loss." And there are plenty of other places on the web to publish HPC articles where you are not subjected to idiotic censorship by teenagers more interested in Doctor Who. Also where a link back to this site would actually count, as far as Google is concerned.

I have gratuitously semi-spammed their forum and also invited them here.

Well, the forum doesn't appear notable. But the actual Housing price crash, the event, is certainly notable if someone wrote it up. They haven't shut up in the news about it forever.

Is there even an article on the current recession/depression etc?

Scratch that, the forum itself is notable enough.

Yes it is. I used to contribute there, and it is the main discussion forum for the whole HPC thing, which many vested interests still deny exists (the NewLab did a U-turn last week). If New Labour is Wikipedia, then HPC is its Wikipedia Review.

Either I'm missing the coherent and well-thought out postings, or people on there don't have the memory to think back 15-20 years. Alternatively it could be that they're all tory activists - the internet seems to be 80% populated by those these days. I'm surprised that people didn't learn from back then that if you let the market run riot, it'll rebound on everyone sooner or later.

It seems to be nearly as bad as BBC have your say.