Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Midnight Macabre (2nd nomination)

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 Delete - Yomangani^talk 00:18, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Midnight Macabre (2nd nomination)

This webcomic has no external third-party sources of any kind, making it WP:OR by default, and no indications of meeting the notability criteria of WP:WEB. The first AfD discussion, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Midnight Macabre, appeared to hold that it had sufficient Alexa rank and/or Google hits, but these are not sufficient by and of themselves to establish notability, and cannot override the WP:OR problem. Sandstein 15:52, 7 October 2006 (UTC) Correction applied, Sandstein 19:06, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

• Delete it's hard to imagine that just last year an Alexa rank of 140,000 was enough to get a webcomic article kept. But so it was, I guess. In any case, the Alexa rank has plummeted to almost 400,000. The article still has no references unless we count the absurd number of links to the official site (5 links to the cast page alone!). Doesn't seem to pass WP:WEB or our general standards today... frankly, I'm surprised it squeaked by last year. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 18:49, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment I thought that for a webcomic, links to the cast page would be good enough. What are you looking for? RedRollerskate 19:21, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
    • Well, external reliable published sources that attest to this comic's notability, for a start. WP:WEB says: "The article itself must provide proof that its subject meets one of these criteria via inlined links or a "Reference" or "External link" section." But there is not even a claim to notability in this article. Sandstein 20:37, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
      • Fair enough. I'm ambivalent about deleting the article, so I'm not going to vote here. RedRollerskate 22:21, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete as non-notable web comic. Dekimasu 10:04, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, webcomic by already-noted artist R. K. Milholland. --badlydrawnjeff talk 13:10, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

That's not persuasive in the light of WP:WEB, especially because his notability seems to stem exclusively from the fact that he does webcomics. Sandstein 13:51, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

In this case, I'm not compelled by WP:WEB. --badlydrawnjeff talk 16:10, 8 October 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.