Talk:Don Markstein's Toonopedia

Terms
Definitely see http://www.toonopedia.com/terms.htm regarding the use of Toonopedia material. Simply put, Wikipedia can't use it at all. --Geopgeop 06:58, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * No. The use of Toonopedia original material (i. e., the articles) is what is being talked about ("re-publishing"). Wikipedia's use is covered by section 9, where linkage permission is given. Wikipedia is basically giving Toonopedia free advertising. There might be an issue about the use of the Toonopedia logo, but my friend who is a copyright attorney, says fair-usage probably covers that. CFLeon 21:22, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Notability and references
In checking the article's notbility, I noticed that there were 28 results for "Toonopedia" in Google's News Archive; these could potentially be used as references to expand this article. -- A. B. (talk) 14:25, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
 * - Peregrine Fisher (talk) (contribs) 15:30, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Clicking through these today, the first one 404s, the others are simply citations to toonpedia to support other claims in other works, nothing about toonpedia's relevance itself. Google news currently only links to an article on heavy that cites toonpedia in passing to discuss Dr. Suess.  Does this article currently have anything to support its relevance? --Thomas B (talk) 20:49, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

What happens to an article about a defunct website?
I'd like to start a discussion about what to do with an article like this one, where a website, active for years, becomes inactive and then unavailable. I've read up on how Wikipedia deals with link-rot, but that's mainly about references, citations and external links to webpages that are no longer available. I read the articles on Prodigy and Geocities to see how inactive websites like those were treated, but it didn't help me much in this situation. Is the external reference to Toonpedia now a dead link, even though it's not actually dead, in that it opens up a placeholder webpage that has nothing to do with Toonpedia? Should reference be made to the period from Feb-Oct 2011 when the site was live, but not updated? GlennRay77 20 October 2011
 * Toonopedia is now functioning again. Pepso2 (talk) 03:16, 21 October 2011 (UTC)


 * And thank goodness! But for how long? As anyone this talk page is probably aware, this invaluable resource went dead around July or August, when Markstein was undergoing some serious health issues. The site came back online within the last couple of days. I'm unaware of what's happened in the interim, but for however long it's up, I'm urging WPC members to archive as many of its pages as we can. (WebCitation seems to work with it; Wayback/Internet Archive seems be prevented from archiving due to a web-bot or some such.) I've gone through, so far, all 97 of the comics creators whose articles I created (listed here), and I'll start going through the character, publisher, etc. pages I've created.

If we could help spread the word, I think archiving its pages is an important thing we could do (and which, obviously, would take a lot of us to do). With regards, --Tenebrae (talk) 17:18, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

I just noticed today that sadly, it is gone again. This has to be a somewhat recent development since I was reading it a few months ago. I think I will scan the web for an article on its demise and add that as a link. Spalding (talk) 02:16, 25 February 2022 (UTC)


 * I noticed that the site is now back, so I removed the sentence I had added about its demise. I could not find an article on its demise.  I assume it was just a gap in renewal of the web hosting fee. Spalding (talk) 12:33, 6 March 2022 (UTC)