Wikipedia:WikiProject Webcomics/WCCA

The Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards was an annual awards ceremony that ran from 2001 to 2008. They were a form of peer recognition by the webcomics community, with voting rights granted to creators. Citing the WCCA can be useful in illustrating the prominence of webcomics that were active during that time, but the website that hosted the awards is no longer online and so data on nominees and winners is stored across a number of archived pages, including at least one year where the nominees and winners are not listed in text but noted in images scattered across over a dozen pages.

This essay provides easy to use links for citing the WCCA, consolidates results in years where no text file is available, and comments on using the WCCA in discussions of notability.

All nominees
If someone is very keen, it would be great to insert a table here of all winners and nominees across all years, to make it easy to find if a given comic or person was ever nominated.

2001
The 2001 winners and nominees can be found in full here. To cite, copy this reference or the text below:

2002
The 2002 winners and nominees can be found in full here. To cite, copy this reference or the text below:

2003
The 2003 winners and nominees can be found in full here. To cite, copy this reference or the text below:

2004
The 2004 winners and nominees can be found in full here. To cite, copy this reference or the text below:

2005
The 2005 winners and nominees can be found in full here. To cite, copy this reference or the text below:

2006
There is no single list of the nominees and winners of the 2006 WCCA on the (archived) ccawards.com. Instead the results are shown in a "ceremony", a series of separate images on separate pages. This list collates the 2006 results.

This citation goes to the contents page that has links to each individual category page:

2007
This page lists all the nominees, but not the winners. This page links to all the winners, but each is on its own page. The collated results are below:

2008
The 2008 winners and nominees can be found in full here. To cite, copy this reference or the text below:

WCCA and notability
In my opinion, the WCCA cannot be used as a source to establish notability.

The general test for notability of a subject requires the subject to have "received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject", where "significant coverage" means "addresses the topic directly and in detail". The WCCA sources are not significant coverage. They do not discuss the comics or artists in any detail; one could not go to the WCCA pages and learn much of anything about the comics, such as their plot, characters, starting date, or readership figures.

This is separate to citing them, of course. While significant coverage is needed to demonstrate notability, less significant coverage remains important for filling out the article and providing information not covered by other sources.