Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Death to the Extremist

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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 no consensus. A Traintake the 21:09, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Death to the Extremist

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Asserted to be notable by people who know webcomics, which I don't dispute even if it is WP:IHEARDOFIT, but there are no external sources here, the comic is defunct and the entire article is sourced from the comic's own website. Guy (Help!) 13:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Categorizing debate: W (Web or internet). ◄Zahakiel► 15:17, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete unless reliable sources can be found by the end of the AfD (not holding my breath, frankly). Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 14:28, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete as NN, fails WP:ATT, WP:WEB. A now-defunct webcomic that has an Alexa rank of (hold your breath here) 4,062,822, the lowest I've ever seen. [1] There seems to be a tiny bit of independent buzz, but even so. RGTraynor 14:49, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Delete If it's that low on Alexa, then I doubt anyone would want to look it up on Wikipedia. Acalamari 17:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. DTE may not be well known, but it's noteable. Notability and fame aren't the same thing, and things don't stop being notable when they finish. It's a early and long-lived example of minimalism in webcomics and Constrained_comics, precursor to and influence on better known stuff, like Dinosaur Comics [2] and Boy on a Stick and Slither [3]. Tocky 06:09, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment: Splendid; do you have any sources for those assertions we might see? RGTraynor 15:25, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment: It was also mentioned in an article cited on the BOASAS page: ref KamuiShirou 17:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Hm? It really is all the things I said. It's a pioneer in constrained webcomics because it predates other constrained comics. I call it long lasting because it was updated, regularly, for seven years - and webcomics have only been a popular medium for fifteen years or less. It's also gotten favorable coverage on well known web culture sites. (Boing Boing in 2003 [4] and 2004 [5]) Tocky 02:27, 25 March 2007 (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.