Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Comedity
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- The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. 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.
The result was delete. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 02:34, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Comedity
Contested prod, non notable web comic, possible vanity Nuttah68 10:09, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
- Delete - Doesn't meet WP:WEB, no secondary reliable sources. Wickethewok 14:07, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
- Don't delete - Provides an accurate, concise description of a respected webcomic. Author tours conventions with the authors of Mac Hall, 8-bit Theatre, and CTR-ALT-DEL - thus at least three respected authors in the webcomic community believe him to be a peer. This article is a stub, but should be given time to grow. I wrote about half the article, and am in no way affiliated with Comedity. I just was looking through Wikipedia looking for information on some webcomics, came across this one up for deletion, and added to it so that a useful resource wouldn't be deleted. Magus 19:15, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
- Comment - Weren't there specific notability guidelines for webcomics? This meets the 100 comics limit and has certainly been around for long enough. --Kizor 08:54, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
- Delete Doesn't meet WP:WEB guideline or WP:V policy. Yes, some people once floated the idea that Wikipedia ought to throw out all our content policies about "reliable sources" and "no original research" and instead we should write encyclopedia articles about every web comic that manages to reach the arbitrary milestone of 100 comics. Then we realized that was a bad idea because 1) It's not that noteworthy that somebody managed to draw five comics a week for two and a half months, 2) Nobody would ever consider writing about every blog with 100 posts or every flickr account with 100 photos or every wikipedia editor who writes 100 encyclopedia articles, and 3) If no third party reliable sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy are writing about those 100 comics, then we really shouldn't (and can't) write about them either. We're an encyclopedia, WP:NOT an internet directory. -- Dragonfiend 03:15, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
- Unfortunately the 100 comic limit was one of several criteria intended to work together, instead of a single arbitrary milestone. I've added some links to the statements about community activity (those seem to hold up under observation) and other than those every fact in the article is readily observable in the comic or its cast page. Keep. -Kizor 07:35, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
- We are an encyclopedia, therefore we don't write about what is Wikipedia:Readily_Observable; instead, per our official content policies, we write about what is Wikipedia:Verifiable through Wikipedia:Reliable_sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. Also, per WP:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_an_indiscriminate_collection_of_information, "Wikipedia articles should not exist only to describe the nature, appearance or services a website offers ..." That is, we don't write solely about what is Wikipedia:Readily_Observable on every web site; we only write about those web sites with some historical significance according to third-party reputable-and-reliable sources. This article is better suited for Comixpedia's wiki until such time as there are such reliable sources for the article. -- Dragonfiend 16:29, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
- Unfortunately the 100 comic limit was one of several criteria intended to work together, instead of a single arbitrary milestone. I've added some links to the statements about community activity (those seem to hold up under observation) and other than those every fact in the article is readily observable in the comic or its cast page. Keep. -Kizor 07:35, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
- Delete - It's on my watchlist which means it's not notable. Having done guest strips for others is nothing, turning up to conventions means absolutely nothing. - Hahnchen 00:01, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- Delete per Wikthewok, Dragonfiend. Angus McLellan (Talk) 20:18, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
- Delete not notable. Mukadderat 18:53, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
- 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.
