Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chakat


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result was delete and redirect to Centaur-like creature. For such a long discussion with so many participants this was surprisingly clear cut. —Doug Bell talk 09:37, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Chakat

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A nearly unintelligible article on a fictional "creature" that seems be something the creator made up in school one day. The article puts forth no creditable claim of notability and, being a amateur construct, has no reliable sources outside the creator's personal website. To be frank I have no idea why this even has an article or why someone thought it would be a good idea to add this to the encyclopedia. After all, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information or a free web hosting service to advertise your artwork. NeoFreak 01:56, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Please note that the format and wording of the article has changed since the initial nomination. While my oinion of the article's subject and its inclusion based on policy remains unchanged please review the article again if you have already cast a vote. Some justifications used for previous votes may no longer be applicable. NeoFreak 15:10, 12 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete as "furcruft." From what I can tell from an initial Google search, this appears to be related to furry culture, and although this Bernard Doove guy has created a heaping ton of info about it and it fits into some fanfiction Sci-Fi universe, I still don't understand its purpose (or maybe I just don't want to). Maybe this stuff has some merger potential somewhere on Wikipedia, but I'm already too weirded out to search further. As the article stands, however, it does seem to fail WP:NOT per nom. -- Antepenultimate 02:25, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Changing my vote, please see below. -- Antepenultimate 18:21, 11 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Weak delete, chakats are notable in the furry fandom, but only in the furry fandom. If someone wants to know what a chakat is, they will go to WikiFur. - ∅  ( ∅ ), 03:02, 10 December 2006 (UTC) Strong delete nn fictional species created for a piece of shit porn story series -  ∅  ( ∅ ), 03:03, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep but rewrite As I've stated on the Talk:Chakat page, If wikipedia is going to provend information on porn stars and obscure comic book characters then I can see no reason to delete such an article. I am unsure of how this article is something that was made up in school one day. Honeymane Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam 03:31, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: "Honeymane" is a typical chakat name, this user may identify as a chakat. :-) - ∅  ( ∅ ), 03:38, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Commet: Honeymade, have you read the notability guideline I linked? If you have I don't understand how this can be seen as anything but "something made up one day". You're right, Wikipedia is not a place for obscure porn stars, see WP:PORN. If you see pornstars that are featured here that do not meet that criteria then by all means prod or AfD those articles. Most minor comicbook characters are included in their parent comicbook articles or in a list. Those that don't fail WP:FICT. Again, if you see any violations of this feel free to prod or AfD them. Another important feature that distinguishes those aformentioned articles is that they have been published. This, on the other hand, is a pure amateur creation that is being advertised on wikipedia that has no interest to people outside a particular subculture (cruft). The people in that subculture can find this information at other more appropriate places such as the creator's webstie, fansites and dedicated wikis such as WikiFur. Violations of wikipedia policies and those policies' guidelines do not set a precedent for continued violation. I would recommend you review WP:NOT and WP:N. NeoFreak 03:42, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Inclusion is not an indicator of notability. If there's articles about minor comic book characters and non-notable porn stars, take them here so that they may be deleted. MER-C 04:21, 10 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete, no indication why this is a notable word or work of fiction. Seraphimblade 04:01, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Transwiki to Wikifur for merging, then delete as per above. MER-C 04:21, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep but rewrite: As the original creator of this text (but not the species) I cite the large amount of independent art and literature that has been created about this species, including this article. [] [] These are independently conceived and written works, and I assure you (as a writer) that the act of creating the two given examples was non-trivial. The fact that you may or may not like the species yourself does not change the fact that hundreds do. The fact that you don't understand why this species (among millions like it) has achieved that level of success is in fact a mark of potential interest to the wider community. ANTIcarrot 04:33, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Fan fiction is one of the least reliable sources out there. MER-C 04:40, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The existence of fan fiction on this subject demonstrates a 'cult following' though, which is a criteria for notability. I would also challenge you to name another fictional species which has achieved this level of popularity (or greater) or caused the creation of this amount and quality of work (not of creator origin) without being backed by a major publishing house or broadcasting organization. If you cannot, and no one else can, then that makes the species notable all by itself. ANTIcarrot 14:21, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Fan fiction isn't a source, period; at least not in terms of any notability guideline I've ever read. We're talking published, independent, reliable sources. Think newspapers, scientific journals, informative television programs, and some web content - but not blogs, and in this case, probably not anything from www.furry.org. -- Antepenultimate 04:46, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The notability guidelines require the topic (chakats) to be the subject of multiple non trivial works (novels and very expensive art) whose sources (people who created the works) are independent of the subject itself (and its creator). The guidelines go on to say that 'published works' is a very broad category not limited to the examples given. If it was limited to those categories then wikipedia itself (being non published) would be a trivial source- which is blatant nonsense. If you wish to exclude all material that is only published online then you still have to deal with the large amount of paper artwork that has been created on this topic. To my knowledge wikipedia offers no guidence for notabilty of artwork, but the shear quantity and quality produced makes it non trivial. ANTIcarrot 14:00, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Besides, this isn't a question of whether anyone likes the species, it's about whether or not chakats are notable enough to merit an article in an encyclopedia, which is what this is. - ∅  ( ∅ ), 05:00, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I believe that ANTI's point is; because it is so well known, in a pool of dozens of other fictional species in the Furry Fandom, it is notable. Take the Sergal for example. It's pretty obscure in the fandom, where as, chakatas are not. --Honeymane Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam 05:27, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * ...no, seriously, read WP:N. NeoFreak 05:30, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * explane to me how Noonien Soong is a notable example of a character, when A) the only source it cites is Star Trek TNG, and B) a wiki on star trek which also cites the same episodes. Perhaps that article should also be deleted. Surely Noonien Soong isn't notable outside the Star Trek fandom, and it's only citing works of fiction from one source; I can't see where the news articles are, or other such secondary sources of information are. --Honeymane Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam 05:44, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * To quote WP:BIO, which allows for articles about "Notable actors and television personalities who have appeared in well-known films or television productions." In the following list of items to assert notability for an individual of this type is the requirement: "A large fan base, fan listing or "cult" following." Note that this is acceptable because it is a character on a long-running, extremely popular television show - not self-published internet fiction. -- Antepenultimate 05:52, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Perhaps a better place to check is WP:FICT, where Noonien Soong is actually used as an example of a minor character that deserves a separate entry, due to suficient depth. Please note the background of a successful television show as well; this really makes all the difference. If this Chakat race is really as important within furry fandom as claimed, it may be best for you to look for another article at Wikipedia that you could suggest merging a shorter, more concise version of this article into. This is a compromise that I may be able to support. -- Antepenultimate 05:59, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think Soong deserves his own page either but as I've said past violations are not precedent for this one. Besides if you think that the Chakat's "Stellar Federation" furry fan fiction universe is equatable to Star Trek then we alot bigger issues here. NeoFreak 06:02, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * First, the Forest tales 16-18 have been published as a book, [] Second, You can not say 'this page has to go' and cite a policy that basically says that such article are allowed. --Honeymane Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam 06:10, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Line two on the webpage: Creator Owned Publications Self published, doesn't count. Relevant Amazon hits for "Chakat": Zero. That covers a lot of territory, what with all the Amazon associate used and speciality booksellers. Also, while you're at it, read WP:INN. Tubezone 06:35, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * That's a nice Error 404 you've linked us to, there. whoops, that was temporary. And I'm not going to explain the difference between a long-running television show and somebody's personal webpage again. Start citing reliable, third party sources as outlined in WP:RS if you really feel this article should stay. You should know that Star Trek fanfiction drek gets deleted all the time. You're right to say the fiction guidelines are somewhat loosely followed, and I agree it's gotten out of control. You'll have to forgive me for not wanting it to get worse. -- Antepenultimate 06:17, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I believe you are misreading Creator owned publications, I believe it refers to the fact that the writers still own the copyrights to the stories.--Honeymane Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam 07:02, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Worse still, Fauxpaw Publications seems to be a vanity press... MER-C 07:15, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * It doesn't seem to be a vanity press to me... they claim to pay the authors, not the other way around. Small press, certainly, but that's to be expected with a niche genre like this.  I'm not convinced the book is enough to make this topic "notable," but given that it seems to be a web-based concept, it could be argued to meet criterion #3 of WP:WEB.  Personally, I'd want to see sources.  If they're that widespread in fandom, hasn't someone written up an essay about their culture, or something?  Anybody reviewed all those stories?  Anything? Shimeru 07:32, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Generally, it seems they pay the authors "in kind" (free copies of the book) or the royalty income, what there is of it, winds up going to pay artists, here's their submission guidelines. As far as I can tell, their only distributor is The Rabbit Valley Comic Shop, zero Amazon hits for Bernard Droove or Fauxpaw. Maybe not a vanity press per se, but should still be considered trivial for notability purposes, you'd practically have to publish in Sanskrit from a cave in Nepal to be much less notable. Tubezone 08:20, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Added link to independent review of the work to the article.ANTIcarrot 14:21, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * A furry-fan e-zine (Anthro #6), trivial. Tubezone 19:16, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I disagree, this shows that it is notable in the furry fandom, and it has reviewed by another source. It's like claiming that a science-fiction fan magezine can not review Star trek and use the review as a citation for an article on star trek. --Honeymane Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam 22:17, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not a soapbox, nor a forum for unsubstantiated opinion. 'Trivial' on what grounds? ANTIcarrot 23:35, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Trivial per WP:BK. Anthrozine is even less notable than Publisher's Weekly, and reviews by PW are beneath the notability threshhold. The Forest Tales books don't even have ISBN numbers, let alone LC catalog numbers. I mean, there's stuff that's been published on mimeograph that has an LC catalog number. Equating Forest Tales with Star Trek or Chakats with Noonien Soong for notability purposes is a an absurd non sequitur. Tubezone 04:52, 11 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Transwiki, at best, to Wikifur.  SkierRMH, 08:49, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak delete or slight merge. I've found myself involved with some of these furry AfDs lately (I'm going back to writing mycology taxa articles soon, I swear), not out of any remote personal interest in the concepts, but rather in the AfD process.  At times, material that could meet our standards reaches AfD because the articles don't: they are poorly written, in a genre perceived as "crufty", and little effort is made to appropriately reference or verify the content (even by its supporters!).  That said ... I cannot find multiple, independent, non-trivial sources here.  There are no shortage of trivial mentions: art categories, furcode references, one-line references in FAQs.  The term is well-attested in the print-medium fanzine South Fur Lands, but that is not independent of the creator; the self-published and ultra-minor press material likewise.  It is discussed in the webzine Anthro (#6), but that's not enough to support an article.  Nevertheless, the term seems to have some cultural currency.  Perhaps it can be merged as a brief mention in another article, such as a mention infurry fandom that roleplaying charcters&mdash;on which a stubby section already exists&mdash;might include "anthropormorphic animals (such as rabbits, foxes, or wolves), mythological creatures (centaurs, dragons, and the like), or fan-created species (including the quadrupedal feline aliens called chakats)". Serpent&#39;s Choice 08:56, 10 December 2006 (UTC) -- change in suggestion, see below
 * Delete Chakats already have an article in Wikifur. A mention in a list of fictional furry creatures with a link to Wikifur is enough. There's just a lack of non-trivial, outside of the walled garden of furry-fandom references to this. The ghits count is artificially inflated by "chakat" apparently being a word in Hindi, Malaysian, Japanese, Russian and Shawnee. The article smells like social astroturfing as well. Tubezone 09:47, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. It's already fleshed out over at WikiFur and isn't notable enough to keep over here. --Brad Beattie (talk) 10:37, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. As per user Tubezone and BradBeattie. Also I can't help but think that the originator of the article was making up the article as he/she was going along in writing it. There a no verifiable citations/sources and one could just about add anything to it with no one the wiser. --Eqdoktor 11:58, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Aside from being inaccurate, your thinking is not a good basis for deletion. Citations can and are being added. ANTIcarrot 15:34, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment The first line of the page you cite states the following: This story uses elements from the Internet role-playing environment FurryMUCK, however it is not intended to be a complete or accurate description of anything actually there. Furry fanfiction != reliable source. Tubezone 17:23, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * This is a false argument. Pretty much every modern fantasy book on the book shelves contains elements from Lord of the Rings, but that does not make them fanfiction. All writing works that way for all genres. Furry simply tends to be a little more honest about it. The two (story) sources are relevant as they mark the turning point where the chakat setting stopped belonging to its creator and became 'open source'. Information to this effect exists on the chakats den. At that point fanfiction as a term no longer has any relevant meaning. (And point of note, specifying 'furry fanfiction' like that is not needed. Fanfiction is fanfiction. Specifying specific types can sound prejudicial and non-neutral.) ANTIcarrot 23:35, 10 December 2006 (UTC)


 * NOTE: This article was first written (2004) before wikipedia even had guidelines on fiction notability (2005). I'm not sure it's fair to suddenly demand it meets complex guidelines that did not exist at the time 'or else'. Give it another week or two (when people have found time for a major rewrite) and then have another look. ANTIcarrot 15:29, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment I think this is exactly the kind of article the notability guidelines are meant to address. I don't see any grandfather clause in the guidelines. I am not sure what you think you can come up with in a week or even a month, there isn't going to be a Publisher's Weekly review or an amazing change in the Amazon ranking of its books or author (actually, any Amazon ranking at all would be amazing). Tubezone 19:16, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * If that's true that Chakat is not breaking any rules or policies other then being poorly writen. As I've pointed out, these are not very strong guidelines, Chakats are notable in the fury fandom, just as Nooien Soong is notable in the star trek fandom. If a Fictional engineer in a fictional universe can be an article, so can a fictional creature in a fictional universe. --Honeymane Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam 22:23, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * If and when a Forest Tales' syndicated TV series comes out, I'm sure the issue of the notability of this character will be revisited for a WP article. Tubezone 02:23, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * There are dozens of articles on wikipedia about non-syndicated Television shows. I feel that you are attempting, on purpose, to misunderstand my example.


 * To paraphrase NeoFreak: The chakat article has no claim of notability, and does not hae any sources outside the creator's website.


 * Now, if you replace chakat with Noonien Soong; The Noonien Soong has no claim of notability, and does not have any sources outside of the creator's show.


 * However, if one reviews the WP:FICT one sees that Noonien Soong is an example of such an article which is allowed.Honeymane <span style="font-family:KlingonTNG, New Times Roman;">Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam 03:36, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, ENOUGH. Can that please be the last time the Noonien Soong or Star Trek is mentioned? They have nothing to do with Chakats. As has been said numerous times: inclusion is not an indicator of notability! Please stick to the subject at hand. This conversation is going in circles, and it is going nowhere, because I still don't see reliable, independent third party sources being added to this very-definition-of-fancruft article. I suspect this is because these sources simply do not exist. -- Antepenultimate 03:46, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * And another thing: Your argument that another article on Wikipedia is just as worthy of deletion as the one in question does absolutely nothing to further your position of Keep. -- Antepenultimate 03:49, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The guidelines are intend to address the style of such pages, not snuff them out of existence. The current page is inappropriately worded in many respects, but it is unreasonable to expect people to drop everything they are doing and instantly rewrite the article just to make you feel better. As mentioned above there are good reasons for the topic to be of interest for a group larger than the core readers.ANTIcarrot 23:35, 10 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete - as per everyone else who agrees that the Furries have their own wiki for this kind of thing. It's well-written, but it's well-written non-encyclopedic non-factual stuff of minority interest. Pete Fenelon 16:22, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. &mdash; <b style="font-family:Comic Sans MS; color:MediumBlue;">Seadog</b> 17:28, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, on account that (I think) this already exists on Wikifur. Transwiki if I'm wrong about that.  --Dennisthe2 22:11, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Danny Lilithborne 00:14, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete - much as the character is popular in furry fandom, it's pretty well impossible to source under the guidelines here, and is probably better off at Wikifur. Tony Fox (arf!) 03:26, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * While normally I'd vote to keep, the people who own the furry fandom and yiff articles (yes those have been WP:OWN for as long as they've existed), refuse to link to this article from their's. There's links from the talk pages of people arguing for the linking. It would be best transwikied to WikiFur, but if that's not possible, then Delete. Anomo 04:03, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment OK, I think I'm understanding the deeper issues here, (which really don't involve the notability of Chakats for WP), apparently (correct me if I'm wrong) the mainstream furry fans (the folks who like ordinary furry things such as The Lion King and Dogs Playing Poker) aren't too hip on hermaphroditic feline centaurs, whilst the more extreme furry-lifestylers and yiffy crowd don't see Chakats as overtly sexual enough, then apparently there's some personal issues between the "owners" of the articles as well. Thus all the protestations about the notability of Chakats in furry fandom, which really isn't pertinent to this AfD (the question here is solely whether the article meets WP guidelines). Anyway, the Chakat article on Wikifur is pretty much the same as the WP one, so the transwiki-ing is a done deal at this point. Tubezone 08:14, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: Well I think alot of it has to do with the "owners" of this article being upset that their subculture isn't getting the same "recognition" as more mainstream ones. Like Star Trek I guess. This is only the tip of the wikipedia furryberg. Check it out. NeoFreak 08:51, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I find it interesting that you've created a list completely of furry related articles to delete; do I detect a bias?--<span style="color:red; font-family:Old English Text MT, Papyrus;">Honeymane <span style="font-family:KlingonTNG, New Times Roman;">Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam 06:36, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I find it interesting that you've included a "This User is a Furry" userbox on your Userpage; do I detect a bias? (It can cut both ways, you know.) -- Antepenultimate 22:29, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Perhaps so, but my bias isn't going to delete articles. Just some food for thought --<span style="color:red; font-family:Old English Text MT, Papyrus;">Honeymane <span style="font-family:KlingonTNG, New Times Roman;">Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam 22:53, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * So... being biased is only OK if it leads to cluttering Wikipedia with fancruft articles that very clearly fail WP:N? Very interesting. You and the other supporters have done little but argue your case based on emotions. Those of us who favor deletion or redirection (I'm the latter, it may be hard to see that given the length of this discussion) have consistently referenced numerous guidelines in support of our position. We support these guidelines because we do not wish to see Wikipedia become a joke. You, Honeymane, also included references to guidelines in one of your posts - and I respect you for that. But a single WP:RS-compliant source will do much more for your case than a thousand posts referencing WP:IAR. If Tubezone has created a list (and, to be honest, I haven't even looked at it) and you feel that those subjects are worthy of inclusion, then now is the time to start furnishing them with independent, third party sources (as outlined by WP:RS) to assert their notability per WP:N. Truely notable subject matter has no trouble doing this. -- Antepenultimate 01:17, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * WP:RS is a guideline, not a policy, as is WP:N. WP:IAR is a policy. Now, I can understand that you would not like to see wikipedia become a joke, as you put it, I, However, Do not want Editors on wikipedia to lose sight of the spirit of Wikipedia. It may not seem importent to you, but the last thing I want to see is wikipedia to become a wanta-be EB. You keep pointed to articles like WP:RS but you fail to tell us what you believe a thrid party source is; I believe the review we've cited is a third party source, if not, explane why it is not. IIRC, a third party resource is one that comes from another person, unrelated to the creator of the material.<span style="color:red; font-family:Old English Text MT, Papyrus;">Honeymane <span style="font-family:KlingonTNG, New Times Roman;">Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam 02:04, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * citing verifiable, authoritative sources IS a core policy of Wikipedia. WP:RS is a "guideline" only in the sense that it is used to help determine what is and isn't an authoritative source, not being "policy" doesn't mean that sources aren't required or that trivial sources or sources that are unclear independence of the primary source (such as niche booksellers or webcomics) are acceptable. This article is essentially a copy of an article that already exists in Wikifur, so there's little reason to maintain it here, and suitable references and links are already in the WP article Taur. That's a fair and reasonable compromise by just about everyone's standards. Tubezone 04:37, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I would encourage you to go and frequent the other current WP:AfDs, since your fuzzy logic could be used to "keep" just about every single one of them. Your emotional attachment to this subject is so strong that you would rather see Wikipedia devolve into an uber-inclusive anarchy than have this article deleted. Note that every time I have said "third party source" that annoying word "independent" happens to show up in front of it: This is not an accident. In this case, this means someone who is not associated with furry fandom (clearly, a webzine with the name Anthrozine raises some red flags here), and could be something as otherwise-insignificant as the local weekly newspaper. I didn't want to say it, but citing WP:IAR in the midst of an extensive argument such as this probably isn't going to amount to a hill of beans. It is clear that your involvement in this AfD debate is born of emotional attachment and not from any desire for improving Wikipedia - a significant requirement of WP:IAR, by the way. With well over 1,500,000 articles, the last thing I worry about is Wikipedia turning into another Encylopedia Brittanica. The issue is no long quantity, but quality. -- Antepenultimate 02:47, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I do want to improve wikipedia, which is why I'm pointing out the WP:IAR. Video game articles often cite reviews that are done by websites, like 'Gamespy', which are not outside the video game fandom should you refer to it as such. I doubt if there will be a newpaper article on chakats soon, but that does not make them non-notable.--<span style="color:red; font-family:Old English Text MT, Papyrus;">Honeymane <span style="font-family:KlingonTNG, New Times Roman;">Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam 03:24, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * If that was the case, you would have mentioned that line of reasoning long before I basically begged you to start citing policies (see below). I'm thoroughly unconvinced that you just happened to stumble upon this AfD and began commenting with the hopes of averting some great injustice. And for the last time, please stop mentioning completely un-related subject matter as though it has any bearing on the current discussion. What a video game, created and developed by a major software publisher and distributed internationally (and henceforth reveiwed by Gamespy) has to do with a race of hermaphrodites "living" in some future fancruft universe... Seriously. This is ridiculous. To say nothing of the fact that such a review isn't likely to be the only thing an author of such an article could come up with. If you find articles where this is not the case, then you are welcome to nominate them for deletion. In the meantime, no more changing the subject, hmm? -- Antepenultimate 03:58, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I pointed out above that "Honeymane" is a typical chakat name, too. :-p - ∅  ( ∅ ), 03:11, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Liking The Lion King and Dogs Playing Poker doesn't count as furry fandom. That is normal fandom for modern culture. Loony Toons isn't necessarily furry fandom. Furry fandom is stuff like Inherit the Earth Quest for the Orb game or Taurin Fox's artwork. Anomo 09:00, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * That is a point of contention and I would wager that most furries would disagree. Check out the Furry fandom article. I think that bringing the Lion King and Looney Toons "into the fold" is really an attempt to make the Furry community more mainstream or more encompassing than it really is but that's just a personal opinion, the argument can be made both ways. NeoFreak 09:16, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I remember when... alt.furry was a new Usenet newsgroup (yeah, I know, that's ancient history), most of the posts seemed to discuss The Lion King (in particular, that was popular) or similar Disney furries, that's why I mentioned TLK. Dogs Playing Poker was just a lame joke on my part. Haven't paid a lot of attention to furriness from then 'til now. Tubezone 09:43, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: you don't need to like the sexual elements of the fandom to be a "extreme furry lifestyler" :-p - ∅  ( ∅ ), 18:49, 11 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Redirect to Taur, aiming for a compromise. I just spent some time cleaning up and referencing the disaster that was the taur article, and collapsing about a zillion smaller articles into it.  I included a brief mention of chakats (which probably do not meet full-article standards, but certainly can hold their own for an acknowledgement in a larger related section).  Wikifur is the better place for the in-universe detail, barring notability-standards coverage of the concept at some future time.  Serpent&#39;s Choice 09:01, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Kudos: Wow man. I was about to say that article was on my hit list too but you've done some great work to it. It's a million times better. I'm still not sure that the "Chakat" belongs there because that sets an example for anyone that creates a fictional creature or comic book/fan art to add their creation to wikipedia. Still a violation of the WP:NFT notability guideline even though it does not have its own article. I really think this sort of thing is best left to personal webpages and private wikis. NeoFreak 09:13, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks! It needed ... erm, help.  I'm going to have to hit centaur soon, too, as it makes Chiron cry.  But as for chakat and the WP:NFT issue... I'm torn.  On one hand, as far as fictional creatures go, its certainly not centaur, or even drider.  On the other hand, there are a ton of Google hits (conflated with some foreign language issues, admittedly).  The material has seen publication in several fanzines (South Fur Lands, Fur Plus at least), and a serial-format (more or less) self-published book that got reviewed by webzine Anthro here.  I don't think that's quite enough for an article, but I think its plenty to dodge the NFT bullet in regards to a mention within a larger topic. Serpent&#39;s Choice 09:37, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Changing my vote to redirect per Serpent'sChoice's excellent work on the Taur article. I don't know how happy the furry fanatics are going to be about cutting the article down to one sentence, but that one sentence wraps up about all that is encyclopedic about Chakats, IMO. Perhaps including external links to Wikifur and Doone's website (outside of the references) might not be such a bad idea. Again, nice work. -- Antepenultimate 18:21, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: here's one "furry fanatic" who could care less about chakats. - ∅  ( ∅ ), 18:49, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable fictional species. Edison 16:55, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * KEEP I feel this article should be kept, as it is as notable as the unicorn and the pegasus. You don't have to be in the furry fandom to enjoy such things, either. SheWolff 02:08, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Question: Do you really think that the Chakat is as notable to popular culture as the Unicorn and Pegasus? Seriously? Do you have any refrences outside the furry internet community to back that claim? Has the Chakat ever been included in mainstream books, videogames, boardgames, movies, TV shows, coats-of-arms, or art like the Unicorn and Pegasus? No? I didn't think so. So what exactly is your comparative criteria for a statement like that? NeoFreak 15:01, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment Probably WP:ILIKEIT ;-) I think this AfD is going to set some kind of WP record for non-sequiturs. Tubezone 18:40, 12 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Answer: If they are being discussed in classrooms in elementary schools, which to me, is outside the furry internet, that is reason enough for me. Something doesn't have to be on a coat-of-arms or on the TV to get admiration.  If they discuss it in schools, then to me it has enough merit.  Nuff said. SheWolff 02:08, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * HUH? Where did that come from? Not only is this fact not from the article, I don't believe its even been mentioned in the conversation above. Do you have any sort of proof for this rather sudden claim? Also, why are you creating new usernames each time you come here? Never mind that last bit, I see that you must be manually signing your name and got it wrong. Next time, just type this: ~ and it will all be taken care of for you. -- Antepenultimate 01:40, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The proof came in the form of my son coming home and asking me about it. Upon further investigation, indeed the teacher has been discussing it in the class, along with other myth-like creatures.  That is where that info came from.SheWolff 02:08, 13 December 2006 (UTC) (Comment moved here for clarity ANTIcarrot)
 * All information in Wikipedia must be verifiable, so unless the local news does a writeup on your son's experience, it doesn't pass the test. Please take some time to familiarize yourself with some of our core guidelines; besides Verifiability, reading our guideline on Notability should also be helpful. -- Antepenultimate 02:22, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I haven't had kids in elementary school for a long time, so maybe I'm out of touch here, but if my son's elementary school teacher were discussing hermaphoditism, or even a fictional hermaphrodite, let alone a fictional hermaphrodite that has mammary glands where they shouldn't be and runs around with them hanging out most of the time, in an art or English class, I think I'd be calling the school principal, not using the incident in a WP AfD discussion....Tubezone 08:27, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Believe it or not, the criteria on which this was brought to the class was indeed taken from this site. Now, that being said, the chakat is up as an article, as seen on here.  That makes it verifiable, and notable.  A lot of information that floats about this world comes from gaining knowledge from places such as this.  With what you just said, you are contradicting yourself by stating what you did. Therefore, it is verifiable and notable. SheWolff 03:32, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Sooooo.... what's really happening here is that the author of Chakats is using WP to establish notability? Sounds like you're making a good case for a CSD G11 speedy delete for spam... Tubezone 04:31, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Could you please read the verifiability and notability guidelines? An article's existence on Wikipedia being used for it's own verification?!? That line of logic makes my head hurt! Read the guidelines, please. -- Antepenultimate 03:39, 13 December 2006 (UTC)


 * KEEP If as many of us know about the topic as the above discussion indicates, it is surely notable. (smile) Not as a comicbook character in a story, but, just as the author says, a character who has been the incentive for the creation of a notable series. DGG 01:52, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Which "notable series" would that be? Also, how many people engage in an AfD discusssion isn't one of the Wikipedia notability criteria. Tubezone 02:53, 13 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Question:What exactly do you want us to verify? The species exists as a creation. there have been multiple articles created on the subject created independently of the site. WP:WEB There is a notable amount of art created on the subject independently of the site. It is known about outside of furry. This has all already been verified so far. If this isn't good enough what else is required? We're not going to turn up tomorrow with a front page from the London Times - and yet the page has not yet been deleted. You pointed to Wiki standards time and again, but what exactly do you want the proof of? ANTIcarrot 03:01, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * My mentioning of verifiability was in direct relation to Shewolff's "proof" about Chakats being used in classrooms being a personal experience involving her son. That instance, even if true, is impossible to verify; therefore unless another source can be found to back up the claim that this is being taught in schools, it is not eligible for use in the article nor is it relevant to this discussion. We've already gone over the notability concerns, please read WP:N and stop throwing that word around like there isn't a very specific definition of its use here at Wikipedia (as you just did when you claimed there to be a "notable amount of art.") As per why this page has not been deleted yet, AfD debates typically run at least five days (we are on day three now, I believe) at which point an admin will review the arguments to determine if a consensus has been reached. That admin will weigh arguments in terms of their relevance to established guidelines, so it is in your own best interest to familiarize yourself with those guidelines and phrase your arguments with their requirements in mind. -- Antepenultimate 03:14, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * wikipedia is not paper And I'm starting to believe that perhaps the use of WP:IAR may have to be used in this case. We've provended sources for you. However, you shoot them down, dispite the fact that they are Sources. --<span style="color:red; font-family:Old English Text MT, Papyrus;">Honeymane <span style="font-family:KlingonTNG, New Times Roman;">Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam 03:19, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * There is a world of difference between a reference being a "source," which can really mean almost anything, and being a "Reliable Source," which is what we are concerned about here at Wikipedia. -- Antepenultimate 03:26, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Obviously this is a reliable source, as that is where the article they used to teach the class came from. The school must have thought that this was a reliable source or they wouldn't have used Wikipedia as a resource. SheWolff 03:38, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I didn't make the words "Reliable Source" into a Wikilink just because I thought they looked pretty in blue. It is a link to an established Wikipedia policy that very specifically details the defination of what is considered a reliable source here at Wikipedia. Please read it. How your son's teacher feels about the reliability of Wikipedia could not possibly be less relevant to this discussion. And lest we forget, the claim that this is being used in a classroom environment is currently completely unverifiable, anyway. -- Antepenultimate 04:56, 13 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Note: Chakats are also obscure comic book characters, as they're the main feature in Four Footed Furries by Shanda Fantasy Art. Secateur 04:59, 13 December 2006 (UTC) — Secateur (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.
 * Obscure is right... "Shanda Fantasy Arts": 11 ghits, 13 Amazon listings (none with ISBN's), 12 have no ranking, one has a ranking of ....(drum roll)... 1,963,122. I mean, this example is practically defining non-notability. Tubezone 05:23, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Four Footed Furries was a one-shot anthology, not an ongoing series of any sort. Also, referring to the chakat content as the "main feature" is deceptive.  Doove's work shared space with at least two other authors.  To its credit, it did see Diamond distribution, but I still think it would require an extraordinarily liberal reading of guidelines to consider this sufficient for article justification.  I'll happily add it as a reference in taur, though; print refs for fictional topics always make me happy.  Serpent&#39;s Choice 05:38, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Eh, I figured front cover helped somewhat towards main feature. By the way, two other authors? Mark Merlino's reprints from New Horizons, sure, but who do you have as the third author? Ah, Diamond makes sense, that's how it found its way to Northern Europe. Also, I suggest redirect to taur. I don't think WP:NFT is a problem, because getting a comic book distributed by Diamond is a bit more serious than funny things you did at school some day. I do, however, think WP:N is a problem, at least with chakats as its own article. Secateur 08:59, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Front-cover status was news to me; my store didn't stock Shanda titles, and so I've never seen a copy. That said, what minimal information I could find about this issue online indicated material by Doove, Merlino (Shelly Pleger illustrating), and Roy Pound.  I could be wrong as its been staggeringly hard to find info about the title at all.  Serpent&#39;s Choice 09:13, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Try http://www.rabbitvalley.com/item_4671_2769___Four-Footed-Furries-Issue-Number-1.html for a cover and brief contents. I'll see if I can figure out which issues of New Horizons Merlino's stories where printed in. Roy Pounds II is an illustrator, not an author. I don't remember exactly what he drew in that issue, but knowing his art, I'll guess chakats, garettas, sphinxes, shapeshifters... Secateur 09:33, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Reprints of stories from NH #1 and #5, but then Rabbit Valley stopped reporting contents for the next few issues, and I haven't been able to verify the last one. However, I doubt it matters to the task at hand anyway. Secateur 06:51, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Chakats are also characters in the webcomic Apollo 9 <span style="color:red; font-family:Old English Text MT, Papyrus;">Honeymane <span style="font-family:KlingonTNG, New Times Roman;">Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam 05:52, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Provided link indicates no article found at wikia by that name. Doing research myself, this appears to be a self-published webcomic with no verifiable coverage on independant sources.  Webcomics that do not meet the project's notability guidelines are no more able to serve as references or reliable sources than fan faction, livejournal entries, or blog posts. Serpent&#39;s Choice 06:13, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Forgot part of the address, however, what webcomics are not self published, and, if you perform the search I did on google, (see below) you'll see a lot of sources.--<span style="color:red; font-family:Old English Text MT, Papyrus;">Honeymane <span style="font-family:KlingonTNG, New Times Roman;">Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam 06:34, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Google PageRank of www.longtail.us/apollo9/ = zero. Alexa rank .. (another drum roll) ... 2,240,125. I mean, we're rapidly being sucked into an obscurity black hole here. Chakats are apparently reverse Midases of notability. The next example that comes up will probably prove that a gathering of the entire world readership of Chakat material would barely fill two booths at the Shakey's in Cucamonga. Tubezone 06:20, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * A google search however, shows 127,000 results, for Longtail, Apollo, and 9 (longtail apollo 9). I find it hard to believe that it could = zero.<span style="color:red; font-family:Old English Text MT, Papyrus;">Honeymane <span style="font-family:KlingonTNG, New Times Roman;">Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam 06:34, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Google PageRank is a 0 to 10 scale. BTW, the Alexa rating for the site dropped 1,297,089 in the last 3 months, and the page views by 83%. These stats are for the entire longtail.us site, the stats for the individual pages, of course, will be less. The recently zapped article Draconity, BTW, had over 11,000 ghits, and that total wasn't be skewed by false cognates in other languages. Tubezone 08:09, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Too bad most of those are for the Apollo Space Program. Even a simple revising of the search to Longtail "Apollo 9" (the quotes ensure that all results have "Apollo 9" as one phrase) quickly whittles that down to 236 - and still quite a few of them are about the space program! -- Antepenultimate 06:49, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * (ec) There is a substantial difference, for Wikipedia, between a webcomic hosted privately and one associated with Keenspot, Comic Genesis, or even Blank Label Comics. A properly formatted Google search provides substantially fewer hits (360, with 69 unique).  Almost all of them are livejournal entries, blog posts, or Webcomics List and its mirrors (which lacks Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion).  The only exception I could find is a reference in South Fur Lands, which was established earlier in this thread as not being an independant source from the concept's creator.  Serpent&#39;s Choice 06:52, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Is there an award for Best AfD of the Year (Comedy)? This is rapidly approaching the status of hilarious. NeoFreak 13:04, 13 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete, article exists at WikiFur and is not generally notable. Arkiedragon 14:45, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Taur - SecondTalon 16:25, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Taur per earlier comments. I'm not a furry, but have certainly vaguely heard of chakats, but at present I don't see adequate independent referencing. Once there are a couple of references to chakats in the broader ( that is, non-furry ) media I'll change my view. Certainly, though, we should have a redirect, so that people accessing Wikipedia at least have something to go on. WMMartin 16:49, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Taur Was going to say delete, but I liked the solution offered. Chakats aren' notable enough to have an article for themselves, but are notable enough to be mentioned somewhere. 201.84.18.36 18:58, 13 December 2006 (UTC)


 * A few notes about problems cited. As I understand it, Wiki policy prefers that potential problems are discussed in talk pages before deletion becomes an issue. That did not happen here. "made up in school one day" It would have been easily disproved by an examination of the primary source given at the time that this is not the case. "Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information" This article is not one of the examples given. Wikipedia currently gives no guidelines for as to whether any given story is notable. The article might be a close match for requirement 6 in books albeit chakats are a species that features in several stories written by several authors; rather than a single story in and of itself. "Advertising" Chakats are not a commercial product, so it is hard to see what is being advertised here. The article was not written as an advert. "Fancruft" Not in and of itself a reason for deletion, and not a policy violation. This statement is also disputed, as with the school teacher example, and that the species might be of interest to transhumanists, and scifi writers in general. (See below.). "Astroturfing" I cannot see how this is possibly relevant to the topic. This and the accusation about hit-count manipulation read as a personal attack. "Does not meet style for fiction criteria" This is an argument for rewriting, not deletion. "Notability" The big question. Two third-party web-published articles (non-scholarly sources) have been found on the subject. A large amount of third party literature and art has been created. Since this is a shared universe the term fanfiction may or may not be appropiet. Wikipedia at present contains no guidelines whether pictures/art are/are not non-trivial works. Some of it is very likely to have been published by |third parties.ANTIcarrot 05:21, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * There are pages and pages of notability guidelines, with a number of points that are applicable to this article and have been explained. WP:PARROT Tubezone 07:37, 16 December 2006 (UTC)


 * A final note for on the usefulness of the topic (since notability is so heavily defined): We may well have in this discussion a couple of experienced deletionists here. I once again ask them a question which they have so far either not noticed or refused to answer: How many species are there like chakats that have created a comparable amount of interest and participation as evidenced on the Chakats Den and associated site? The deletionists must come across topics like this a lot. So how many can be named? It has been implied that chakats are nothing special. So how many examples of fictional species can you name? Creating such a popular fictional species is neither easy nor simple. chakats weren't even created as such, yet they *became* popular because people showed an interst in them. It might have been word of mouth, or random clicking, and yes, people reading about them in 'cruft' publications. But the fact is that lots of people were interested enough to look it up, stay, and contribute. how often can you say that for a fictional species that hasn't been backed by a major publishing house? For the administrator: I realise that 'being very exceptional' is not a criteria for wikipedia notability, but it is a standard for common language notability. In the latter sense, chakats are very notable, not because of the species itself, but because the exceptional response and interest they have generated is very unusual and has sustained itself over fairly large period of time. I ask the administrator to consider whether this might constitute an occasional exception to the notability guidelines on that basis alone.ANTIcarrot 05:21, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * So how many examples of fictional species can you name? Offhand, dragons, mermaids, centaurs, satyrs and unicorns. All fictional species of long term, wide popular notability, not cult subjects of webcomics with sub-1,000,000 Alexa ratings and books that are so obscure they lack ISBN numbers, which demonstrates exceptional lack of response and lack of interest. Never heard or cared about Chakats until this AfD came up. That sort of goes to the point, WP is supposed to document notable things and persons, not be used to create notability, neither should this AfD used to create notability. The keep argument ran out of gas, like, about the first day, but every argument except actually coming up with verifiable, reliable sources that establish notability has been dragged out and rehashed ad nauseum, just to keep the debate going, it seems. Tubezone 06:36, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
 * PS: Alexa rank of the Chakats Den = 717,353. WP is, by 30,000, the highest ranked site linked to it, without that WP linkspam, the ranking would likely dive to oblivion. Chakats Den exists to promote and sell Mr Doove's work, so does the page, a pretty good argument could be made to speedy delete this article as spam. Tubezone 07:37, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * He could be refering to such things as Sergal, rather then Creatures best defined as mythical, like unicorns and Dragons.--<span style="color:red; font-family:Old English Text MT, Papyrus;">Honeymane <span style="font-family:KlingonTNG, New Times Roman;">Heghlu meH QaQ jajvam 02:59, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think chakats being characters in Apollo 9 makes them notable. But that doesn't make them non-notable either, because non-notable means absence of notability, not presence of a case of non-notability. Not having heard of chakats isn't a valid argument for non-notability, nor are WP:IHATEIT found way above, just as WP:ILIKEIT aren't. I agree though, there are plenty fictional species more known than chakats. However, you don't list any modern creation. I suppose List of species in fantasy fiction might be interesting here. Secateur 16:59, 15 December 2006 (UTC) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Secateur (talk • contribs) 16:58, 15 December 2006 (UTC).
 * Look at all those fictional animals just waiting to be put up for AfD! (in my best Snidely Whiplash voice) BWA-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!! But seriously, I'm going to lay off participating in fictional creature AfD's. As far as Chakats go, a mention in Taur and on that list is fine by me. BTW, I'm not arguing to delete based on whether I've heard of it or not. I haven't heard of most of the characters on that list because I'm not much interested in most of the material they appear in, other than Dexter's Laboratory. Tubezone 02:05, 16 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Petition strongly accepted not-notable fur-cruft. - Francis Tyers · 02:00, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Not verifiable from information in reliable sources. Delete. --Slowking Man 02:11, 16 December 2006 (UTC)


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