Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The yellow monster

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The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 16:04, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The yellow monster

Non-notable nonexistant comic strip. RickK 06:22, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

• Keep I have no interest in this kind of material, but what's the harm? It's well-written, and we want to represent human knowledge, after all. Researchers years from now will look at all sorts of ephemera like this article. Zantastik 08:05, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • Mileage varies on the "well-written" part of your statement. --Calton 13:38, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
  • I have never understood where people get the idea that Wikipedia's goal is to represent "human knowledge". That has never been a stated goal of Wikipedia on any policy or definition page, and that "goal" has been refuted over and over again. RickK 20:52, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
• Maybe so, but there are tons of now-defunct webcomics, because it's so easy to start one at Keenspot. "The author of the comic is believed to have lost interest and has ceased updating the comic. Lack of an adequate fan base is likely the cause." I fail to see what's so notable about this one. Weak delete. Radiant! 08:38, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Defunct webcomic that was never notable. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a general knowledgebase of human activity. Future researchers can easily satisfy their curiosity for odd things with the 4000+ articles listed in Wikipedia:Orphaned articles instead. jni 08:41, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. This was not of individual interest even when it was running, so wouldn't deserve an article now. Indeed, it isn't even worth mentioning in an article on webcomics themselves. As part of a statistical analysis on the mayfly level of lifespan of the average webcomic it may qualify as one point on a data set, but that's pretty much it. The level of human knowledge we include has to have a limit somewhere - I mean, I'm human, and I know what colour my coffee mug is, so it's human knowledge, but hey, who cares? Average Earthman 12:43, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Completely non-notable. And for the benefit of future historians, my coffee mug is cobalt blue. --Calton 13:38, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. I do not drink coffee.
• Delete, mine has a pic of Sylvester the cat. Wyss 21:00, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Fails to meet webcomic inclusion guidelines, by a long shot. If I had a penny for every half-hearted attempt at a webcomic abandoned by its creator before it was two years old... — Gwalla | Talk 02:07, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, agree with Gwalla. GRider\^talk 22:08, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, even though it is 'non-notable', that's not grounds for deletion under current policy. Dan100 12:40, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

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