Talk:MS Paint Adventures

Regarding PROD

I object to this PROD. First, Google News results are completely irrelevant to webcomics. I'd imagine very few well established webcomics have any Google News hits. Second, if you're going by Google hits as a mark of notability, I'm not exactly sure what you're doing. I'm not sure how you're defining "substance". Further, if we go by sheer volume, it has even more hits than other webcomics with articles on them, such as Wondermark or Dinosaur Comics. Also, I'm pretty sure Google hits have never been a guideline for notability. If you really want to delete this article, you're going to need a better excuse. --Λύκος 09:45, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

(Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm doing, this is the first time I've ever tried to post something here)

I'm not sure if this will help, but here is a reference to the website of bestselling author Patrick Rothfuss about MS Paint Adventures [1]

Apologies for having no clue what I'm doing - I hope this helps. --67.8.172.44 (talk) 04:22, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm also not a veteran Wikipedia editor, but I object to this being considered not notable. The site has a fairly forum where artists of varying caliber, from completely amateur to very impressive, are getting a chance to expose themselves with the same kind of storytelling as the MSPA itself has. Even assuming that the MSPA site itself does not qualify as notable, at the moment in particular, it is likely that it will spawn other similar comics and webcomics in the future, at which point it will likely be of note even if only historically.

I don't know how you came up with the metric of google hits or google news articles in terms of relevance, as news is only likely to come into play with popular culture, and measuring the merit of an artistic site (which comics qualify as) is typically done by interested parties, not third parties, as the value is understandably subjective. Until or unless the editors in question show themselves to be able to determining the merit relative to the genre in total, I don't consider them to be in a position to make this kind of suggestion. 98.166.252.74 (talk) 19:58, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Noteriety

Unfortunately, popularity is not (directly) a criteria for a stable article. Only the effects of popularity, such as media refrences. MS Paint Adventures just isn't mentioned significantly in any media. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.19.155.125 (talk) 07:09, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

I object to this notion on the grounds that you used "any media". MS Paint Adventures is fairly often referenced in notable webcomics. Questionable Content, Overcompensating, Dinosaur Comics. Probably more, given I'm working off of comics I read. Would you like links? 24 December, 2009, Jon Jones —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.177.154.95 (talk) 08:48, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately, Wikipedia notability is not inherited. Each article must establish its own notability. ttonyb (talk) 15:39, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but MSPA appears to qualify for two of those categories, not just one. I don't know what the issue is. Could you explain why being noted and linked by some of the top webcomic artists in the game is not exactly what the third possible qualification asks for? And why the interview of the author, primarily being about the comic, by a noted author, does not fit the first qualification to a T? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.177.154.95 (talk) 04:41, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

If you want to leave comments pertaining to this article's notability, it might make sense you leave it on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/MS Paint Adventures so that your comments are taken into account when the AfD closes. --Λύκος 06:06, 25 December 2009 (UTC)