Talk:Rodney Caston

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This article was nominated for deletion on July 30, 2005. The result of the discussion was No Consensus, and by default Keep.

Contents 1 Comments from Rodney Caston 2 Merge to Megatokyo proposal 3 Marriage 4 WikiProject class rating 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Megatokyo vol2.jpg

[edit] Comments from Rodney Caston

• info in article validated as correct as of 7/8/2007

[edit] Merge to Megatokyo proposal

Would it perhaps be more useful to merge and redirect this to Megatokyo? It's less useful out of context. --Aranel ("Sarah")]] 20:48, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

• No. Rodney Caston's artical would be better seperated. The work Rodney did might clouded and eventually squashed inside a page for MT which would be worse. --ZacBowling 20:21, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

• No. Megatokyo is quite big enough, and we shouldn't merge logically distinct subjects unless there is a very good reason. Being "less useful" is decidedly not so. --Maru 02:03, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

• Yes. All notable information contained in the article already is (and, in fact, explained better) on the Megatokyo article. --Nifboy 23:34, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

If by 'notable information' you mean a bare summary of facts which amounts to "Rodney Caston was this dude who helped start up Megatokyo; then he left due to artistic differences", then you are absolutely correct, Nifboy. But that omits all details about what else Caston does, his marriage, his kid, the links... Frankly, this looks to me like an attempt to backdoor the VfD decision. --Maru 02:26, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

"all details about what else Caston does, his marriage, his kid, the links" don't qualify as "notable information." That's my position. --Nifboy 03:06, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Then you are being dishonest. You are saying that what isn't already in the Megatokyo page isn't notable, and that the page should be wiped, redirecting to Megatokyo. That is a deletion of this article in all but name, since I doubt you will advocate for the "non-notable information" to be added to the Megatokyo article. --Maru 03:10, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Merge/redirecting and outright deletion are entirely different. Deletion also wipes the history and talk pages, which is why it has to go through VfD first (and keep in mind there was only one keep vote on VfD). So I fail to see how I am being dishonest. --Nifboy 03:29, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Which was a full 33% of all votes cast! A plurality! :) But I was using 'delete' in a looser, non-VfD way, to denote removal of information, which as I said previously, you want; and the dishonesty stems from the fact that I think you are hiding this deletion (of information) under the mantle of a merge proposal. --Maru 03:55, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

• No: Caston is a separate entity from megatokyo. Gallagher, the other author, has his own page. --Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 06:36, 2005 August 30 (UTC)

[edit] Marriage

The sentence on his marriage is unclear: did he use Slashdot or Megatokyo's webpage to propose? --Maru (talk) Contributions 19:34, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

I googled around, and I couldn't find anything resembling a proposal on the Megatokyo.com domain. If he did so, it would probably have been in the Rant space, which is archived with the strips. So it should still show up on google. I'm not saying it wasn't on Megatokyo, I'm just saying I couldn't find it. Tigger89 03:58, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

• So, wouldn't it be better to edit the article instead of saying "...used the main page..." BTW: "Infamously" is meant more ironically here, right? de:äxl

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 03:56, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Megatokyo vol2.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:44, 8 March 2008 (UTC)