Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/HTML Comic

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 No concensus (defaults to Keep). There was some talk of merge/redirect/move, those issues can be thrashed out on the talk page or by applying WP:BOLD. kingboyk 03:18, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] HTML Comic

slang entry Grocer 00:18, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

• Delete - nn-web comic. --lightdarkness ^(talk) 00:24, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per all. —Eternal Equinox | talk 00:56, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as spamvertising. Royboycrashfan 02:15, 3 March 2006 (UTC) Keep per rewrite. Royboycrashfan 18:56, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Keep This isn't an article about a single web comic, but a stub about a genre of web comic, at least ostensibly. It needs cleanup, (I've done some already) and I would think that ASCII comic or ASCII web comic would be a better title, but I won't bother moving it until the AFD is complete. Or maybe it should be merged to web comic? -- Vary | Talk 04:23, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep the new version. Are there any notable members of the genre other than Nerd Boy? In any case, neither ASCII art nor Web comic are that great as merge targets, so keeping this one at ASCII comic might be the best solution. Kusma (討論) 05:47, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Kusma. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 09:19, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. This is an entire notable genre. Grandmasterka 10:02, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak keep --Terence Ong 10:11, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• This has been listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Webcomics/Deletion. –Abe Dashiell ^(t/c) 14:19, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete or alternatively move to a better name, possibly ASCII comic. There are only a trivial handful of Google hits for the phrase "HTML comic". (The raw search, with quotes, shows 40,000 hits, but essentially all of them are references to pages with a URL ending in ".html" followed by the text word "comic". The very few hits that feature the phrase as such are from blogs and forums.) I would assert that the phrase is not at all a widely used phrase, leading to doubts about the notabily of the genre. MCB 20:13, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
• keep please genre is notable Yuckfoo 00:00, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete - Absolute delete. Seriously, this thing should be redirected to ASCII art. - Hahnchen 15:44, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, non-notable terms for a classification with only one notable member. -- Mithent 00:14, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Delete, no need to merge as Nerd Boy already linked to in ASCII art. -- Dragonfiend 00:47, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Merge into Ascii art or move to ASCII comic. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 09:23, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Redirect the name to webcomic and possibly merge the contents into ASCII art. I've never heard the term "HTML comic" used in that way before, though someone might use it to describe webcomics in general. There's really not a lot to the article, so there's not much to merge, but it might serve as a footnote in the ASCII art article. –Abe Dashiell ^(t/c) 20:29, 5 March 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.