Talk:Bobbins (webcomic)

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Criteria

This article should meet these notability and verifiability criteria copied from Wikipedia:Notability (web) with proposed answers in bold:-Wikianon 11:22, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keeping in mind that all articles must conform with our policy on verifiability to reliable sources, and that primary sources alone are not sufficient to establish notability, web-specific content^[1] is deemed notable based on meeting any one of the following criteria.

The content itself has been the subject of multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the site itself.
Proposed answer, online independent sources: Michael Whitney review; Tama Leaver interview; Leah Fitzgerald interview; Stephen Gerding interview; Brian Warmoth interview-Wikianon 11:22, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- This criterion includes reliable published works in all forms, such as newspaper and magazine articles, books, television documentaries, websites, and published reports by consumer watchdog organizations.^[2] except for the following:
  - Media re-prints of press releases and advertising for the content or site.^[3]
  - Trivial coverage, such as (1) newspaper articles that simply report the Internet address, (2) newspaper articles that simply report the times at which such content is updated or made available, (3) a brief summary of the nature of the content or the publication of Internet addresses and site or (4) content descriptions in Internet directories or online stores.
The website or content has won a well-known and independent award from either a publication or organization.^[4]
Fails because only nominated for the year 2002 for Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards categories Best Use of Color, Best Site Design and Best Female Character (Shelley Winters). In June 2002 Bobbins was Runner-up best online comic strip in the UK National Comic Awards-Wikianon 11:22, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The content is distributed via a medium which is both respected and independent of the creators, either through an online newspaper or magazine, an online publisher, or an online broadcaster;^[5]
Proposed answer, Keenspot-Wikianon 11:22, 28 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
except for:
- Trivial distribution such as hosting content on entertainment-like sites (GeoCities, Newgrounds, personal blogs, etc.)

Result: two pass, one fails; only any one needed so overall passes.

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^ See Category:Awards for a partial list of notable awards. Being nominated for an award in multiple years is also considered an indicator of notability.
^ Content that is distributed by independent online sites will almost certainly satisfy the first criterion. However, this criterion ensures that our coverage of such content will be complete regardless. For example, Ricky Gervais had a podcast distributed by The Guardian. Such distributions should be nontrivial.

Crap clarification

I’m not a Northwestern Britisher, but my impression is that “bobbins” isn’t used for literal crap, but more in the “junk” or “bric-a-brac” sense of the word. You might say “I had to park in the driveway because the garage is full of crap,” but (hopefully) you wouldn’t mean that there was actual shit in the garage. I realize “crap” is a direct quote from an Allison interview but out of context it could be a little misleading. El Mariachi (talk) 12:13, 26 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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[1] Discussions of websites should be incorporated (with a redirect if necessary) into an article about the parent organization, unless the domain-name of the website is the most common way of referring to the organization. For example, yahoo.com is a redirect to Yahoo!. On the other hand Drugstore.com is a standalone page.

[2] Examples:
The webcomic When I Am King has been reviewed by The Guardian, Playboy, The Comics Journal, and Wired.

The blog Daily Kos has been covered by Los Angeles Times, Time, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, and The New York Times.

[3] The webcomic When I Am King has been reviewed by The Guardian, Playboy, The Comics Journal, and Wired.

[4] The blog Daily Kos has been covered by Los Angeles Times, Time, The Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, and The New York Times.

[3] Self-promotion and product placement are not the routes to having an encyclopaedia article. The published works must be someone else writing about the company, corporation, product, or service. (See Wikipedia:Autobiography for the verifiability and neutrality problems that affect material where the subject of the article itself is the source of the material.) The barometer of notability is whether people independent of the subject itself (or of its manufacturer, creator, or vendor) have actually considered the content or site notable enough that they have written and published non-trivial works that focus upon it.

[4] See Category:Awards for a partial list of notable awards. Being nominated for an award in multiple years is also considered an indicator of notability.

[5] Content that is distributed by independent online sites will almost certainly satisfy the first criterion. However, this criterion ensures that our coverage of such content will be complete regardless. For example, Ricky Gervais had a podcast distributed by The Guardian. Such distributions should be nontrivial.

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