Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Megatokyo

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 of the debate was SPEEDY KEEP. Bad-faith nomination. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 02:51, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] MegaTokyo

Comment - Fixing orphaned nomination, violation of WP:POINT that I believe was made as "satire" as part of this thread about the AFD for Checkerboard Nightmare. -- Plutor 02:48, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

The webcomic is so totally not worth having. I've never read it and nobody really cares about it. Despite the fact that is has been around, for like, EVER, has like billions of readers (or so they SAY!!, but I doubt its true, sicne its crap!!!!), and gets more traffic then just about all other webcomics combined, it is by no means NOTEWORTHY. TOTALLY non-notable! Now, if you will excuse me, I'm going to go read a REAL webcomic like Garfield! 72.224.218.215 00:32, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

-Seconded. It's a webcomic, and hence, clearly not notable.

It is more than just a webcomic, so far 3 issues containing 5 chapters out of the current 7 online have been published in print. It also has an extremely large fanbase, and is to a point a cultural icon regarding a relatively large and growing community. Also by the notion that it should be removed as a result implies that entries for www.yahoo.com and www.google.com should be removed since they are "just websites" and regardless of how many people use them they are "crap." Penny Arcade also has an equally large article and fanbase associated with it. Are you implying that it should be removed as well because some may not like it? I would encourage you to take the article process a little more seriously from now on.

No offense, but when articles about webcomics as influential to the webcomic community as Checkerboard Nightmare are put up for deletion, it's extremely hard for the webcomics community to take the "article process" seriously. This post is a reflection of that. Perhaps come up with a general process and criteria that doesn't depend on a site's (habitually inaccurate) Alexa rating and "noteworthiness" as judged by someone who as often as not hasn't read said webcomic, and I might be more inclined to take the "process" seriously. (Note that I'm not the one who put this up for deletion, although I know who did. I think.)--Plaid Phantom 02:39, 21 November 2005 (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.