Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Whiskerville

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 redirect to Whiskervilles --- Deville (Talk) 02:58, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Whiskerville

• non-notable web comic; Alexa doesn't seem to have any traffic information and no linking sites; not many relevant GHits with a stray pet care center taking top GHit; just not able to see how this meets WP:WEB ju66l3r 08:19, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

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• Redirect to Whiskervilles who are featured in a number of Scrooge McDuck's life stories. This particular webcomic does not appear to pass WP:WEB guidelines. Sjakkalle (Check!) 09:18, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
• Delete or redirect per Sjakkalle. Heimstern Läufer 15:49, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

• KEEP IT Leave whiskerville alone. This comic has been around for 4+ years now, and does have a following. Most Topics on Wiki aren't Notable....Take Keyra Augustina for example. Wiki is suppose to be about sharing EVERYTHING, not about censoring something you don't know anything about. VIVA LA WHISKERVILLE! --- MIKE —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.6.59.197 (talk • contribs) .

• Whiskerville the webcomic is informally involved with the stray pet center mentioned above. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 152.131.12.128 (talk • contribs) .

• Keep I've run across whiskerville a couple times. I'm not sure why it's not showing on Alexa, I found it linked from a couple places I frequent. Maybe it's just the company I keep though. At a minimum, whiskerville has less relevance to scrooge mcduck than it does to this comic. I can't even find that reference through Google until page 4 and that reference is in German. --PaulM 03:36, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

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• KEEP IT! What kind of encyclopedia excludes a subject just because someone hasn't heard of the subject yet? How else can knowledge be shared?-Sheena Gabbert —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dirtgirl1104 (talk • contribs) .

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• Wiki says: The content is distributed via a site which is both well known and independent of the creators, either through an online newspaper or magazine, an online publisher, or an online broadcaster.[7]...........Well Whiskerville is distributed online via a few places. One is Whiskerville.com obviously, two is Testcase.net and three is Jokethemonkey.com (Alexa Ranking of 541,246 and 10K in pageviews a day). So on any given week Whiskerville is seen by over 10000 people on the internet. Does that work? Or am I stretching it? And just so you know, I am not the guy who does whiskerville...I'm just a fan. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.6.59.197 (talk • contribs) .

• KEEP IT! This is the funniest strip I've ever seen. Better than alot of the syndicated comics you seen in papers. I say keep it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.94.129.172 (talk • contribs) .

• Comment: Two things I'd like to comment on are that this is not a vote, but a discussion and relatedly, the discussion needs to apply to the notability (and therefore appropriateness) of having Whiskerville as an article. Being a great web comic or even being one of many that might need to be removed for lack of notability is not an argument for keeping it. The most recent comment above from 24.6.59.197 is much better at stating a case for keeping the article (although just because jokethemonkey.com gets 10k views doesn't mean they're all looking at Whiskerville). If the article is kept, it needs to do a better job at establishing this supposed notability. There are no links to any press coverage, awards, or any other reason to think that Whiskerville is just a slightly web-syndicated personal website (and given the ease of syndication on the web, that's hardly expansive viewership). ju66l3r 16:26, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

• Comment: The Whiskerville page on Wiki says this "This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy. Please share your thoughts on the matter at this article's entry on the Articles for deletion page. " That means we have every right to share our thoughts on this matter. Whether it be by a comic pointing us here or someone suggesting we come here. This is a free site, and we have every right to voice our opinions. Also Whiskerville is published in an Oregon Newspaper. If you delete Whiskerville from Wiki then I DEMAND that you guys flag all other Webcomics that aren't in print. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.6.59.197 (talk • contribs) .
  • Could you give some evidence about the syndication in an Oregon newspaper? Heimstern Läufer 23:33, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
  • Look, that's exactly what I'm trying to point out to you, except just sharing your feelings doesn't help an administrator make a decision to keep the article or not. Your feelings need to be backed up with solid proof of notability as it relates to the rules of Wikipedia which have been quoted a few times now ( WP:WEB, WP:V are two examples). If you'd like to make it a goal to have all webcomics not even as notable as Whiskerville removed, then I would applaud your effort if it's deemed that this webcomic should be deleted. I will AfD those articles when I come to them, too. I didn't hunt out Whiskerville or webcomics, I AfD what I see that meets what I think are the criteria when I happen to see them. ju66l3r 19:19, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
• Weak delete Self-promotion; can be recreated by independent user if it is noteable. User:Yy-bo 21:26, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: GET OFF OF YOUR HIGH HORSES YOU BUNCH OF EGOMANICS! THIS IS SUPPOSE TO BE A PLACE WERE PEOPLE CAN ADD TO THE WORLD...ALL YOU PEOPLE "SELF-PROMOTE" YOUR AGENDAS ON HERE...LEAVE WHISKERVILLE ALONE! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.6.59.197 (talk • contribs) .
• Redirect per Sjakkalle, the webcomic fails WP:WEB and probably would still do so even if the purported syndication were confirmed. Angus McLellan (Talk) 19:53, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

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