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[edit] Assessing notability

This may not be the right place but here are my inexpert assessments of the notability of some webcomics listed at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics/Archive_29#Webcomics_Delete-O-Mania. I had already added rather verbose assessments for Bobbins, Scary Go Round and 1/0. Here, WEB #1, #2 and #3 refer to numbered clauses in Wikipedia:Notability (web). Most webcomic articles are still in dire need of third party references, which I'll add whenever I find any. I searched using google, then I looked for WCCA nominations and any comments by websnark, webcomics examiner, comixpedia or comixtalk.

Key: WS = Eric Burn's Websnark; XX = Xaviar Xerexes of Comixtalk and Comixpedia

  • Salamander Sam - WEB None: #1 = none; #2 = none; #3 = no. Asked creator.
  • Pupkin - I see it's been deleted via AFD. WS mentions, just short of WEB?
  • Ashfield (webcomic) - XX mentions; Keenspot carries archives; I remember this in 2000. WEB #3 due to Keenspot?
  • Perfect Storm (comic) was Speedy deleted 2007-11-06, looked like a substub
  • Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles has been merged/redirected to Neil Swaab
  • Roswell, Texas (graphic novel) - WEB #3 as published on Big Head Press
  • Saturn Knight - prod removed on grounds that FlashbackUniverse meets WEB #3
  • Shadowgirls - XX brief mention; long comicrelated.com review - probably WEB #1

I'll look at the remaining later. I did look at, and edit, When I Grow Up (webcomic) and, although IMHO notable, I feel it could be merged into Wigu's history section with the character descriptions trimmed. -Wikianon 17:59, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Webcomics Wikia

This came up in a chat with Hiding - one of our solutions to webcomics failing notability would be to transwiki it to some webcomics wikia. Comixpedia seemed the best webcomic wiki but it seems to have stalled and they aren't that enthusiastic about turning it over to wikia [1].

One of the solutions to the problems some in the webcomics have with Wikipedia would be solved by them getting more involve here but the Webcomic Project died which is why it had to be brought over here as a work group. Perhaps some kind of wikia might be a good halfway house solution that would help make the majority of people happy. I have to admit I was surprised there wasn't already one running when much less popular subjects seem to have theirs.

Anyone got any ideas about this? It'd certainly help us and would help the webcomics community as a whole but it seems to founder on a lack of enthusiasm, which I think is a bit odd. (Emperor 17:55, 12 November 2007 (UTC))

Yes, please consider filing in entries on webcomics in a special wiki for the effect. The people adding every bit of webcomics out there to Wikipedia are doing nothing but devalue Wikipedia. Please make everyone happier by doing transwiki.--Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves talk / contribs (join WP:PT) 05:01, 1 December 2007 (UTC)