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[edit] Archive of old/outdated comments

Archive of Drunkduck talk page

[edit] VfD results

This article was nominated for deletion. The result was keep, cleanup. For details, please see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/DrunkDuck. -- BD2412 talk 04:44, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding the criticism section

Everything in there needs to be sourced (see WP:RS). I removed the sprite comics section because not only was it unsourced, it also didn't conform to WP:NPOV. –Abe Dashiell (t/c) 02:20, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

The physical sources for the history information in the crit section was all lost when the site crashed last year. Someone needs to get Dylan to verify that this information is correct; I think that would be sufficient sourcing. --RadariG 15:33, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notable Comics?

I'm not exactly sure why this is needed, other than to promote the comics within. I know that some of them are arguably notable, but I don't think we have an adequate definition of what makes them so. Lack of a definitive guideline will make it impossible to govern the list. Besides, the site already has several "ranking" lists that may serve this purpose. --RadariG 19:47, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Screenshots

If anyone can find better screenshots for the two previous versions of the front page, by all means do. Waybackmachine only works so well for me, sigh. --RadariG 20:15, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Notable comics removed

I'm getting tired of having to remove questionable content from this list, so I removed the whole thing. Honestly, I don't see the point of including it; the only comic that I thought belonged on the entry was GoAK due to Ronson's work as a founder and admin. I'll try to write that into the entry somewhere so that the information is present, but the list just invites spam linkage that clutters the bottom of the entry.

If enough actual Drunkduck comics (not drunkduck mirrorsites) come up with wiki entries for themselves, which would indicate a level of notability, we could organize them into a webcomics subcategory and link to that from the Drunkduck entry. So if you like/write a comic that you feel is notable (and will pass a wiki review as such), make an article for it and post the link on the talk page so that I can tie them all together. --RadariG 19:57, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

It would also help if the webcomic wiki entries were not being so viciously pruned. For example, the article for Charby the Vampirate has been deleted twice in the last 6 months. Agreed, it probably technically meets the requirements for a Vote For Deletion (not deletion) as it has not been written up on an independent 3rd-party site (apart from Comixpedia), or published in dead tree format. But surely being among the top 5 stories since even before the relaunch at the beginning of 2006 must count for something?
And you wonder why followers of DrunkDuck comics seem not to want to submit content to Wikipedia? --Aclapton 01:17, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Updates

I've been meaning to add/clean up this article but I've never had the time. It's been weeks now since I had that intention. So instead of waiting until God-knows-when, I'm just going to dump a series of sources here and maybe someone else would have the time to fit it into the article nicely. - Black Kitty 20:18, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

The New York Times article on Platinum Studios acquiring DrunkDuck:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/technology/25comics.html?ex=1316836800&en=53a88484c176636f&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

The press releases/sources for Top Cow Productions using DrunkDuck to launch web versions of its comics:
http://www.topcow.com/download/press/49
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=90899
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=8877

The comics in question are:
Freshmen - http://www.drunkduck.com/Freshmen/
Witchblade - http://www.drunkduck.com/Witchblade/
The Darkness Compendium - http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Darkness_Compendium

Here are various other things that have happened that may be notable:
- The Quack is no longer updating and is pretty much dead.
- Starving Artist and Fusion though are two other examples of successful community projects. Starving Artist is mainly organized by webcartoonist Inkmonkey and is basically a round robin comic activity. Fusion is like a comic jam where each artist would draw one panel based on the previous panel they were given. Fusion is organized by Tyrapendragon .
http://www.drunkduck.com/Starving_Artists
http://www.drunkduck.com/Fusion
- I often do a news recording of DD news for The Gigcast on a weekly basis. A list of links to the most recent Gigcast releases are featured on the front page of DrunkDuck. http://gigcast.nightgig.com/
- There are various Platinum Studios comics being hosted on DrunkDuck. One of them is the companion piece to the winnning entry for The Comic Book Challenge, Hero by Night. Another is Bird and Worm.
http://www.drunkduck.com/Bird_and_Worm
http://www.drunkduck.com/Hero_By_Night_Diaries/
- There are also background information that might be helpful on the website. They can be found here:
http://www.drunkduck.com/contact.php

For the update, I would suggest simplifying things right down and getting rid of the specific features of the different versions. The attributes I feel that are most important to cover are:
1.) A brief history and origin,
2.) A broad description of the current service and purpose of the site,
3.) Notes on what makes the service unique (the active community and continued active efforts to enhance it, the arrival of professional published comics),
4.) The Platinum buyout and its implications.
...Notes on the voting systems and criticisms applying to it are no longer applicable to the site in its current state and have not been for quite some time. This is nothing now but irrelevant history. Anyway, that's just my suggestion for how things should go. If I have time I will do it all myself.OzoneO 00:57, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Definitely agree on that. Keeping it simple would also make it easier to source. - Black Kitty 02:24, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
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