Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/El Goonish Shive
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El Goonish Shive is notable for several reasons. It has over 20,000 unique visitors daily and growing, it has inspired multiple people to start their own webcomics and / or start drawing again, it has resulted in some people addressing topics such as transformation and transgenderism that they might not have had the courage to touch otherwise, it is cited under Arbitrary Gender with a pictorial reference in "A History of WebComics" (a book by T Campbell published under Atlantic Press), it was a part of a Free Comic Book Day book last year and will be again this year, took part in a webcomic benefit for New Orleans, a character from the comic was featured prominently on a large two-booth sized banner that was up at the Comic-Con International ( http://www.comic-con.org/ ) in 2006 and will be there again in 2007, the author has spoken in a panel at Comic-Con for the past four years and is expected to again this year, the first book was available through amazon.com and sold out very quickly, and the first book is also now in its second print run meaning the first run has sold in its entirety. Danshive 14:49, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
- 1: This is nowhere near enough. 2: Sources? Chris cheese whine 09:49, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
- Well, everything helps. --Kizor 11:43, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
I tend to agree with Dan here, I faithfully read EGS, and to nominate it for deletion is frankly just silly. I'm honestly not sure how to cite sources, but if you read [The Wotch|The Wotch's]] link page, you will see under EGS's link, that it is the comic that inspired the Wotch, and they have three pages. I think it silly frankly that one would consider deleting a webcomic that has been published, there are lots of webcomics out there, and this is definitely one of the best ones, in not only my opinion, but the opinions of many, many people. I call for wikipedia to perhaps spend their time chasing after people's vanity pages, and going after articles that have no redeeming value, then after wikipedia articles that the authors of which make a concerted effort to keep current.
There has to be better things one could be doing than chasing after EGS, try reading the comic, rather than assuming its not notable. It is notable, I see random people reading it all the time. Shadowlost8 06:12, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
- You seem to be making the mistake here that all you have to do to demonstrate it is notable is to simply say it. Less waffle, more evidence, please. Chris cheese whine 10:38, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
