Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Oh My Gods!

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The result of the debate was keep. —Xezbeth 19:10, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Oh My Gods!

A webcomic; Alexa gives a ranking of 247,349. Nominated for speedy delete on the basis of advertising, but it's certainly not speedy material, and I'd contend it's not really advertising either, just too obscure to get an article. Meelar (talk) 05:46, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)

  • Keep While not famous, I think this one . Wikipedia describes numerous webcomics; Snail Dust has an Alexa rank of 383,589 and probably isn't seen in print like Oh My Gods! is at least occasionally DDerby 05:59, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep Not sure if I can vote, due to it being my article and all, but I go with keep. --Shivian Balaris 06:07, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
    • Looking at the List_of_web_comics article I see many MANY just like this one. All apparently rife for deletion. If, in creating the article on Oh My Gods! any Policies were directly broken, can those be discussed within the Talk:Oh My Gods! section of said article, instead of merely point-clicking to get rid of it entirely? --Shivian Balaris 06:16, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
  • Abstain, the Alexa rank put it in a grey area IMO. I'm more concerned with excessive "advertising links" than the article existing. —Ashley Y 08:02, 2005 Apr 12 (UTC)
  • Keep not famous, but ranks higher that other articles that we haven't deleted. Oliver Keenan 09:19, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, the Alexa rank criteria is only a guideline after all. The article is interesting enough and the comic has been going quite a long time. Just make sure there's no advertising and that it is from a NPOV. -- Lochaber 09:50, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, I've never read it, but have heard of it. Shimmin 12:28, Apr 12, 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, but trim the number of links down.--Matteh (talk) 12:30, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep, encyclopedic and informative article. Alexa is not a useful indicator of importance. ‣ᓛᖁ♀ᑐ 15:30, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep Encyclopedic and informative.--Onlyemarie 15:44, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: Meets the WikiProject Webcomics guidelines in number of strips -- it seems to have several hundred -- but doesn't meet the guidelines for Alexa rank. However, once you get below the top 1000 or so, Alexa rank starts to get much less meaningful. --Carnildo 22:52, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep --Spinboy 19:22, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep This a very informative article. The comic itself has a steady fanbase that has constant growth. Why delete an article like this?
  • Keep, informative article, funny comic, deserves an entry. If this goes, then every other webcomic article should too. All in the interest of fairness, of course.
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