Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Feral Calf


 * 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 of the debate was Fetus-X kept, Monkey Day deleted, everything else smerged. humblefool&reg;Deletion Reform 00:18, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Feral Calf and associated other entries

 * Feral Calf, Casey Sorrow, Eric Millikin, and Fetus-X are all webcomic entries created by anonymous IPs User:207.179.100.190 and User:68.248.28.159. Monkey Day is another entry created by the former anonIP, and its entire content is "Monkey Day is an annual celebration of monkeys and primates on December 14th," plus two external links (both of which go to pages created and solely maintained by Casey Sorrow)
 * Feral Calf receives 139 Google hits (the first few of which, at least, do correspond to the webcomic), Casey Sorrow gets 3730 (the first few pages of which, at least, correspond to the artist), Fetus-X receives 6,050, and Eric Millikin receives 6,010. I doubt that Feral Calf is notable for a webcomic, and I vote delete on it.  Fetus-X, on the other hand, is somewhat notable, I feel (I, at least, used to read it), but I'm not certain: I vote weak keep.  Eric Millikin, for creating Fetus-X, may be notable, but I suggest that his article be merged into Fetus-X, and redirected there.  Casey Sorrow may be notable as an artist on Fetus-X, but I don't think he qualifies for notability under Feral Calf.  for Monkey Day, as a non-notable, fan-created holiday, I vote Delete. jglc | t | c 17:40, 15 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Keep Fetus-X, Delete the rest. Fetus-X is notable, the rest are not. Nifboy 01:31, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. It was very confusing to list all five of these articles together.  At least three VFDs (Feral Calf/Casey Sorrow; Fetus-X/Eric Millikin; Monkey Day) should have been made for these only tangentially related items.  Quite possibly, five would have been even more appropriate.  Dcarrano 01:48, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete all. Monkey Day for being a holiday observed by very few; Sorrow and Millikin because even if their comics were notable, it would be sufficient to list their names there; and Feral Calf and Fetus-X for being non-notable.  Feral Calf is easy: no Alexa, 11 comics in archive.  Fetus-X is tougher because it has a somewhat larger, albeit not huge, archive (it's numbered strangely, so I didn't count exactly how many), and the article does have some outside links/comments.  But with Alexa #335,262, I really don't see it.  Dcarrano 01:48, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete all per Dcarrano. Xoloz 16:31, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete the lot of them. -Aranel (" Sarah ") 23:26, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Fetus-X for reasons already give by Nifboy and jglc, merge and redirect Eric Millikin's article with the Fetus-x article, Delete the rest. Dragonfiend  00:41, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete all per Dcarrano. JamesBurns 02:00, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

I vote "keep", because I can see that the only reason this article has got a lot of "delete" nominations is because it is about controversial subjects (fetuses, sex, politics) and it is about a controversial comics scripter, who American Christians, Catholics and many similar people do not like.

I am surprised that not more people listed above have the brains to be able to spot this, and instead put down pathetic reasons such as "non-notable" (a really stupid term, by the way, Wiki creators. As are some of your other bureaucratic neologisms.)

If I am researching comics or web comics, I naturally expect there to be extensive articles about anyone of note on the scene, such as Millikin - and his best-known comics. If Wikipedia deletes these entries, Wikipedia. is even stupider than I previously thought it was.

No, I don't like you guys, have never LIKED you. But you're free - that's the great thing - and constantly updated. Still. I frequently wish you'd get hacked. Especially when I see totally LAME attemps at censorship such as all the above. [User: Liz. OH - and BTW - what right have YOU people got to a) log people's I.P. addresses and b) publish them on the Web? None, I would bet.] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.159.104.65 (talk • contribs) 18:09, 22 July 2005 Note: User's only post


 * Comment: Let me just note that "non-notable," as a search term, receives 15,700 hits on google. Out of the first two pages of results, only two hits are from wikipedia. jglc | t | c 18:56, 22 July 2005 (UTC)