Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Polymer City Chronicles

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This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was KEEP PCC, DELETE Chris Morrison. Postdlf 06:14, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Polymer City Chronicles, Chris Morrison

Non-notable web comic, seems like vanity. Lots of POV presentation, and the Chris Morrison article simply seems to be the author of said web comic. I say Delete!. -- Natalinasmpf 13:12, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

  • Weak delete: The art is mediocre and the web comic is non-notable... to me. Will anyone stand up in defense of this article? jglc | t | c 13:42, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep: PCC has existed since 1995, meaning it predates other major comics like Sluggy Freelance. On the web, it's been around since 2000, an older presence than Megatokyo. While the article itself may not be very good, I say label it a stub and encourage more refining of it rather than outright deletion. PCC is old enough to warrant a Wiki article. Xuanwu 15:20, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
    • I've heavily revised the PCC article. Please read this new version BEFORE finalizing your vote. I think I've given it better formatting and cut out a lot of the "review" elements that plagued the first draft. Still needs some work, though. Xuanwu 15:42, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
    • Oh, and I forgot to clarify, I say Keep only the PCC article. The Chris Morrison article should be turned into a redirect to PCC. Xuanwu 15:09, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Definitely delete Chris Morrison, webcomic authors aren't notable outside of their webcomic. Re: Polymer City Chronicles: With an Alexa rating of 763,275, it spectacularly fails WP:COMIC proposal #1; with an archive going back 10 years, it spectacularly passes proposal #2. I think #1 is more important. I don't think anyone should automatically get their comic into WP solely due to longevity... I think it's more important to determine whether people care about the comic to an exceptional degree. In between low Alexa ranking and unexceptional rank of #549 at [The Web Comic List], I don't see the evidence. Thus, delete Polymer City Chronicles as well. Dcarrano 15:57, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep notable part of web comic history. Are deletionists going to lurk until every comic's Alexa rank declines and then swoop in? Kappa 16:46, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete both. Fails the notability criteria. --Carnildo 21:57, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep Polymer City Chronicles, but Delete Chris Morrison. Notable part of webcomics history (Used to be big, but it died out briefly, losing most of its readership, myself included). Nifboy 22:50, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Weak keep Polymer City Chronicles per Xuanwu, but delete Chris Morrison. Although it is not particularly popular, it once was, and it is pretty widely known ("Polymer City Chronicles" gets about 240 ghits); its longevity is out of the ordinary. However, I wish Kappa wouldn't attempt to inject partisanship into VfD; it serves no purpose other than to annoy. — Gwalla | Talk 23:00, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Strong keep Historically significant strip, although you could drop link to artist. Here is the historical info: "Launched in print starting in 1992, and then featured on the WWW in March of 1995, and bosting over 600 strips, Dr. Otto and Andrah appeared on the web as the first video gaming web comic to be published on the Internet. In it's early days it was a one panel gag strip, published bi-weekly, featuring the odd couple and their even odder assortment of friends poking fun at the gaming industry." I can speak to this as the strips original Publisher. I was planning to add this entry but had not finalized the initial text for my post. bcRIPster 16:19, 12 July 2005 (MST)
    • User's 5th edit.[1]
    • Forget that last comment... I'm have made a full editing pass to clean up the content. bcRIPster 20:00, 12 July 2005 (MST)
  • Keep the first, delete the second and reject the name-calling from Kappa. -Splash 01:52, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep comic; Delete artist, per Gwalla. Xoloz 04:26, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep Polymer City Chronicles, Delete Chris Morrison. The PCC is now well written and has some notability. I believe the artist though does not. JamesBurns 04:50, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep the comic, redirect the comic artist, long live Jim Morrison. —RaD Man (talk) 02:26, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Keep the comic, redirect the comic artist. The only web comic I follow. Humor in a non-flat universe. Fjanss 23:30, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
    • User's only edit.[2]
  • Keep it's more than just longevity, Its the FIRST in 2 catagory. First gaming comic and First Webcomic. If it was just a webcomic which been here for a long time then yeah I would delete it but this has Historical importants. The historical importants should be enough to keep form deleting, and weither you like the comic or not should not be a deciding factor.--Arnoldstrife 08:37, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
    • User's only edit.[3]
  • Keep Polymer City Chronicles. It ranks up there with Argon Zark --STrRedWolf 03:07, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
    • User's 12th edit, only 7 in article space.[4]
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 an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.