Talk:Chugworth Academy

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There is a VfD tag on this page, but there does not appear to be any corresponding discussion on the VfD Page itself. I suspect that it may have been originally tagged by someone who thought it was a vanity page for an actual school, as opposed to a web comic. As such, it definitely meets the criteria for inclusion outlined in The webcomics WikiProject; in fact, it is erroneously listed there as a web comic which deserves, but still doesn't have, a Wiki page. I suppose I should go change that last part now, and add it to the list of web comics page instead. --Ray Radlein 06:10, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Oh, and props to the anon user who got the ball rolling, but this article is going to need a lot of editing. --Ray Radlein 06:14, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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What's with the Frequently Asked Questions section? It looks like someone has just copied it straight from the Chugworth site itself without editting it. Perhaps it would be worth removing that section and replacing it with a link to the original FAQ in the External links section? --huwr 10:14, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] FAQ

I cleaned up and reworded the FAQ to make it look more professional-ish. --68.38.113.242 23:43, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Still a copyvio, and unencyclopedic. I'm going to go ahead and remove it. --InShaneee 05:13, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Chigworht academy has its own wiki project "Chuggypedia" for anyone looking to expand this article they might find mining that website for information would be usefull. Chuggypedia --Seth Turner 20:30, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Either Wikipedia took a few sentances from Chuggypedia, or it's the opposite. I see numerous copyright violations on both sides, word for word.

For example: Site description on Chloe Winsdale is word for word on this page character bio, minus the last two sentances. --293.xx.xxx.xx 08:06, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Down!

Site is Down! Should we document it? -Annon3

Its a pretty lengthy period of downtime so far. // 3R1C 12:28, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Additionally, it seems that the scribblekid.org domain, Chugworth's host, is down.

It's still down. Is there any standard for time passed before domain outages become significant? 68.147.43.7 21:10, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, I've documented the downtime myself in a "downtime" section, including the original month-long downtime. -Emhilradim 01:43, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

There really needs to be some kind of source for "It is widely speculated that the sporadically updated comic has been discontinued, much to the relief of increasingly disappointed fans." I liked Chugworth.leetdood

Doesn't really need its own section yet, especially considering that about half of what was up there had no basis in citation or impact. If someone can find any massed reaction to it online it might be more appropriate.--Oni Ookami Alfador^Talk|@ 02:59, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Chugworth used the same webhost as Clone.Manga, and they both went down at the same time. After Dan Kim's site came back up he said in an update that the hosting company just disappeared/went under so I assume that the Chugworth author hasn't bothered getting a new host, which pretty much would equal to the comic being abandoned.--85.156.236.246 11:07, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

There could be a multitude of reasons for this. Along with having no desire to restore the site, he could also be taking an extended break, having difficulty finding a new host, redesigning the site, attempting to generate hype, any of several other possibilities. It would be wrong to state what possibility is likely or to otherwise conjecture about it.--Oni Ookami Alfador^Talk|@ 15:13, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Oh stick if up your fat wiki-arse.85.156.236.246 17:50, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

I also liked Chugworth. Shame it's gone AWOL... 24.84.50.181 07:33, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

I just noticed that the article itself says that the site's been down since April 2007, but the infobox on the side says June 2007. Is there a reason for the discrepancy, or is it just a mistake? --66.169.215.100 01:32, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

It's impossible for me to reconstruct the dates now, but after the site had been down for the first two weeks it came up very briefly with a message from Cheung saying that the person who administered the host had been "on vacation" for the "two weeks" that it had been down. The site promptly collapsed again the next day and as far as I know has been down ever since. --Vreejack 18:30, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Netcraft doesn't have an uptime history for this site, but they report it WAS up 16 May 2007[1]. --Mdwyer 05:22, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Official word from Jay on the issue, featured on his website. The chat for the site brought up by Mixel still exists on the DALnet IRC server, channel #chugworth with a few faces from the forum. Jay is around occasionally, surfacing from the all-encompasing miasma that is Gamestop. -Berry http://www.networkjay.com/chugworth.htm Xistove

The artist was at Otakon 2007 he said he didnt know why the site was down 68.63.151.78 01:28, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

For more info on Chugworth's downtime, check here:

http://www.networkjay.com/chugworth.htm

Sorry for not wiki-ing it myself, but I'd rather not crap up anything. Thanks!

Its already in the article. Please sign your posts by the way.--Oni Ookami Alfador^Talk|@ 04:18, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

The comment next to the main link suggested the site was taken over by squatters; the domain simply can't be found, so I've corrected this. Colonel Tom 01:06, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Actually, the site was taken over by squatters for a brief period, before again going offline and eventually coming back. But that's not really important now. Buspar 04:36, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

It does seem to have had a chequered recent history. Cheers. Colonel Tom 13:13, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Today I saw the page it's up :D I'm so happy - so happy forgot to sign: DJ_M