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Article for deletion

This article runs like an advertisement and there are hardly any third-party sources to back this article up. I think this article should be deleted as it is technically just promoting the website and nothing more. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.220.117.12 (talk) 03:33, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Improve, Don't Delete

I agree that it reads a bit like an ad, and it's poorly sourced, but I also think that Deviant Art is notable enough to merit an article. Let's improve it instead. --Mark Asread 10:50, 14 March 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mark Asread (talk • contribs)

Agreed, the article needs some serious improvements. But it's about one of the most relevant art communities worldwide AND a Top 500 ranking websites. If that does not qualify as relevant, what does? Removing it would not improve Wikipedia, it would harm the informative value. --88.207.175.239 (talk) 23:04, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Prpaganda de un sitio comercial. Debería ser eliminado. A mí me borraron información sobre un sitio gratuito y mucho más útil que ese tal "deviantart". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tormenta de Nieve (talk • contribs) 03:30, 28 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Origin of "Deviant Art" Name -

I have always assumed that the name of the site is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Nazi policy of declaring art by Jews, contemporary art, and any 'degenerate' art not in keeping with Nazi 'ideals' "deviant art, sometimes purchasing it or confiscating it, and keeping it from view by the public, as mentioned in this NPR article: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/11/09/131187535/-deviant-art-thought-destroyed-by-the-nazis-is-found

Anyone have information on this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mark Asread (talk • contribs) 02:13, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Scott Jarkoff picked the name. He thought it would be funny to call the members "deviants" and so it's called deviantART. I'm not sure what the rest of the back story is, but I don't think it had anything to do with Nazi germany. 108.85.225.19 (talk) 06:45, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Termination of Scott Jarkoff

As someone reading this who knows very little about DeviantArt, I have to say that the entire "Termination of Scott Jarkoff" is incredibly confusing. It reads like it expects that everyone already knows all this stuff anyway so why bother really explaining it. I'm not even sure the event is relevant to an encyclopedia and not just intra-site politics, but regardless the section is pretty useless in its current form. Wickedjacob (talk) 14:04, 12 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Seconded - motion to remove this section? Xquizit Decorum 23:58, 11 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xquizit.decorum (talk • contribs)

Agreed, it should be removed. I was around on deviantArt at that time, and my gut feeling was to side with Scott Jarkoff, but a befriended admin told me some thins that made me doubt. So in the end, who is to be believed, without any hard evidence? It's all speculation, and has little real informative value. And it's not really relevant to the achievements and current activities of deviantArt either. --88.207.175.239 (talk) 23:10, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

YES that section, titled "Termination of Scott Jarkoff". It is all based off of hearsay! Not to mention it has a million "clarification needed" tags. Since when does an encyclopedia publish hearsay and then credit the source to A BLOG? Ugh. If the topic has not been dissected by a neutral third party publisher, why is Wikipedia getting in the middle? Makes no sense. ~Joel — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joel Breheney (talk • contribs) 22:29, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Broken Link* 24.^ a b "Jarkolicious :: Involuntary Termination". 2005-08-03. http://jarkolicious.com/probes/2005/08/03/involuntary-termination/. Retrieved 2007-12-27.

Bs27975 (talk) 04:49, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Name

Shouldn't this be called deviantART as the title? 86.186.199.101 (talk) 17:14, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Per our manual of style, we stick to English grammar rules as much as possible in regard to capital letters. The "camel case" seems to be an exception in practice. The Interior (Talk) 17:56, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dated information

Been searching online for up to date information (at least from end of 2011) for the number of active users and some sort of activity counter (like uploads) per day. Searching the web has produced very little decent raw information as reported directly from the site came up, many secondary sources that read from external statis. If any one can find a more complete source of reliable information the article would benefit from it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.151.158.175 (talk) 12:40, 29 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]