Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zig Zag (furry)

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The result of the debate was Keep Zzyzx11 (Talk) 06:06, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Zig Zag (furry)

Delete. Somebody's personal character, also in obscure web comic. Not notable enough for its own article, possible vanity. --Krishva 08:55, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Notable anthromorphic furry mammal porn movie studio owner. — JIP | Talk 09:55, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Are all obscure fan groups as insistent on their importance as this one? "Malcolm Earle" gets 961 google hits, and the vast majority of them seem to be for the Jazz trombonist Malcolm Earle-Smith Average Earthman 10:08, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • I'm not a furry fan by any means, and I couldn't give a toss about the vast majority of furry characters. Zig Zag is an exception. She was even prominently featured in Eric Schwarz's comic Sabrina Online, which is a very notable comic even outside the furry fandom. — JIP | Talk 10:48, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • “Max Black Rabbit” as Zig Zag’s author is commonly known, get 13500 google hits. --Perneseblue 11:15, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Oh keep this. Not my kind of thing, but not just someone's vanity project either.--Tony Sidaway|Talk 11:43, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep. Vote put up on VfD by user who (along with one or two others) are attempting to have deleted or speedily deleted every furry-related page on Wikipedia. Almafeta 14:30, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• I'm not a furry fan, and the ever-goring quantity of fancruft in Wikipedia bothers me a lot, but honesty compels me to admit that I've heard of this character. Keep. -- Dominus 16:42, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. I'm not really down with the furries, but I'm not down with biased edits and VfDs either. While the character is fairly minor, my ignorance of the subculture may be biasing me. Her appearances in webcomics that I've heard of is in favor of it.216.158.31.195 17:00, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• keep this too please Yuckfoo 18:59, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep because she looks like something off Furcadia. Which probably doesn't have an article. While we're on the subject, intergalactic weasel. Hedley 19:38, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable in furry fandom, don't see why this shouldn't have an article. Kaibabsquirrel 03:57, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep notable furry character. JamesBurns 04:47, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Weak Keep Falphin 19:48, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Furry cruft. SchmuckyTheCat 20:48, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Weak Keep. Could be somebody's vanity article but you've also got to admit that Sabrina Online isn't exactly an 'obscure' webcomic. It would be preferable to merge this into a Sabrina Online article rather than maintain it seperately. -- Stiv 06:47, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
  • I agree that Sabrina Online isn't obscure. Calling it obscure seems like a sign of "I've never heard of it, so it's obscure" logic. But there is way too much information in this article to merge with Sabrina Online, seeing as that article has way less information on everyone else. — JIP | Talk 07:01, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, nn. -Sean Curtin 02:32, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Widely recognised character in furry subculture. Character’s has crossed over into art/stories of many other people, a rare occurrence outside Disney characters.--Perneseblue 11:15, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Equivlent to any other character page. Sabrina Online is I think on its seventh year running or so, and has, you know. READERS. Notable.
  • The above Keep is made by user:Tznkai -- Grumpyhan 00:19, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Abstain Some of the votes for Keep seems to suggest she is a character which has a lot of fans among webcomic creators, hence crossovers. Sabrina Online appears to be more popular than an obscure comic, though. -- Grumpyhan 00:19, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• Weak Keep I'm admittedly a bit of a webcomics geek, and encountered Zig Zag in webcomics form about four years ago, so the character is familiar to me, so that does make me biased. (Of my 21 daily comics bookmarks, however, only three could be considered 'furry': Sabrina Online, Ozy & Millie (which I don't tend to count, personally) and The Class Menagerie.) However, Sabrina Online has a significant readership for a webcomic (or so it's link page suggests), as does the associated ZZ Studios fan fiction which features her as a main character, surprisingly enough (for fan fiction, anyway; 344 registered users in the discussion room). There's also fan-made radio play as well, apparently. (Weird-ish, that...) On the other side, "Max Blackrabbit" gets 553 Google hits. (I suspect many of the others in the 13,500 quoted above have sentences like 'A dwarf rabbit can be black, brown, white or gray, and grow to a max of six inches long.' or the like.) Still, I'd say more notable than a random Pokemon. --William McDuff 15:50, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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