Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Funny Bunnies

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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 include. That this meets WP:WEB by being distributed in the Ottawa Herald wasn't disputed. I think merging is possible, and of couse tagging/rewriting or the article as appropriate should be done, but the topic seems to meet the applicable inclusion guideline. W.marsh 13:58, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Funny Bunnies

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Delete. A comic strip that appears in one newspaper (since May of this year) and has been a webcomic since a couple of days ago. A Google search for "Cyrus Oliver"+"Funny Bunnies" produces 1 Google hit, although the article's author claims to have found 88 hits. Searching for "Funny Bunnies"+comic only shows 2 relevant hits in the first 5 pages. ... discospinster talk 01:41, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Delete Fails notability assertion. Its a simple advert. Delete. scope_creep 01:47, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

I am new to Wikipedia and a fan of the said comic strip. Personally, I joined in hopes of adding articles for the category of animated films, but daunted by the idea I decided to start with a simpler concept and, just recently viewing the Funny Bunnies website, considered it to be a good start. I did find 88 hits when searching Google, but the relevancy of them is debatable. Having no connection to the author of this strip other than an exchange of a few emails the past week, I have no problems with this Wikipedia article being deleted. Whether or not it will be is up to administration. Thank you for your time.

Kirisutokyoo

  • Delete per nominator. JIP | Talk 06:16, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Maybe in a couple of years it will become notable, but it's not there just yet. Shimeru 09:02, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete per above. MER-C 10:11, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Delete give it time, will support its inclusion once it's in a few more newspapers. Lankiveil 00:58, 11 November 2006 (UTC).
  • Keep, meets WP:WEB, which I belive would be the standard used here. --badlydrawnjeff talk 11:59, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Merge into an article about the Ottawa Herald until it becomes otherwise notable or syndicated. Yamaguchi先生 22:48, 14 November 2006
  • Delete – I was intrigued by the assertion this article met WP:WEB. Google says “bunny bunnies” without being limited to comics, gets only 35,000 general hits, of which only 767 are distinct. An examination of the 767 hits, which is pretty tiny in the WWW scheme of things, shows a lot of mention for an unrelated book of the same name. Alexa shows the webcomic’s site is not in their top 100,000 ranks, even allowing for the fact it doesn’t take a lot of visits to move up. However, neither Google nor Alexa are final arbiters of notability per WP:WEB. WP:WEB says the comic needs to have been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works; the content/website needs to have won some well-known and independent award; and, the content is distributed by a site which is both well known and independent of the creators. Of these three conditions, the third is clearly met by the Ottawa Herald. The comic however fails to show being the subject of any non-trivial published works, nor does the website or comic boast any well-known, independent awards. “funny bunnies”+”cyrus oliver” gets only three hits, two being the author’s website and the third being a Xanga page. I parenthetically note the article also fails the general WP:NOT. Tychocat 10:30, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
    • WP:WEB says that it meets the criteria if it meets any one of the listed. Even you admit it meets #3. If the article is violating WP:NOT, then some editing can be done to fix that. --badlydrawnjeff talk 11:38, 15 November 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.