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18 October 2006

The Demented Cartoon Movie

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/The Demented Cartoon Movie (2nd nomination) I noticed the article was determined to be deleted. The debate page had just come up with a few better examples as to the articles qualifications on Misplaced Pages, but there was no comment on these points as the article was shut down. I would like to hear what the administrator based their closing on, and relist. Any information would be appreciated! --Ridesim 16:03, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

  • I was the closing administrator. The arguments for deletion were based around the fact that there was an absence of material meeting verifiability, reliable sources, and original research. The arguments for keep mainly consisting of vague assertions of notability being based on appearances in several other not particularly notable internet animations/media. Being listed on Albinoblacksheep is fairly trivial and hardly a measure of notability. Wickethewok 16:10, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Endorse closure - AFD was conducted correctly, and a review of the comments made indicates that there was no non-trivial references to the topic to be had. A flash cartoon referring to a flash cartoon is not a reliable source. An established magazine or newspaper referring to a flash cartoon is - but there was no indication of such existing. Tony Fox (arf!) 16:10, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Endorse closure To fully see the references added to the AFD, go into edit mode on the AFD page, add the <references/> tag, and preview. What we get is 1) urban dictionary, 2) you-tube and 3) video.google.com. These are not reliable sources as they are sites that anyone can edit, which is the reason that Misplaced Pages is not a reliable source by our standards. GRBerry 21:09, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Endorse deletion. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. In this case the claim that a flash movie is of encyclopaedic notability requires evidence in the form of it having been the primary subject of multiple non-trivial coverage in reliable secondary sources. As noted above, no such evidence has been provided. Guy 21:16, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Endorse colsure: Although Wickethewok was active in the first AfD there is no sign that he applied any bias in the closure of the second. Those voting keep never addressed the issues in WP:WEB. If there was a case to be made based on unique hits per WP:GOOGLE or traffic per alexa rank, it was not made in the debate. -MrFizyx 21:32, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
  • I didn't realize I was active in the original AFD discussion... 0_o. Just to make it clear, my closure on this AFD was independent of my comment in the first AFD, which occurred about 1/2 year ago. Wickethewok 21:44, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Endorse closure - per procedure. Tony Fox is right, no evidence was given -- Tawker 03:22, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Endorse closure as valid AfD. The only thing even remotely close to a process breach is the fact mentioned above that closer Wicket voted in the first AfD... but not only isn't that a big deal, I also can't imagine that anyone else would possibly have closed it differently. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 19:13, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Endorse closure. Valid AfD, keep voters could not show how series met WP:WEB despite repeated requests to do so. NeoChaosX 20:57, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Sixth Party System

Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Sixth Party System

This article has had a somewhat tortured history. It was prodded, deleted, and the deletion was brought here. It received six Endorse deletion !votes before it was sent to AfD as a contested prod. Because of this, the AfD had no deletion argument at all for a while. The deletion argument is straightforward:

This is an obscure addendum to V. O. Key's Fifth Party System. It reflects the views of a single paper that the Sixth Party System began in 1964, and ended in 1994. This itself is one of 23 papers variously dating the beginning of the Sixth Party System between 1960 and the present. Some of them mention the Sixth Party System only to deny it has begun. These in turn are a small fraction of the hundreds of papers on critical elections in the United States.

I do not believe that any of the keep !votes (except KChase, who has a copy; I look forward to his expanded version) even addresses this argument, save by ungrounded assertions that there must be more scholarly papers out there somewhere. If so, scholar.google.com and JSTOR have not found them.

If we take out the dates, we are left with the dicdef: "After the Fifth Party System comes the Sixth Party System." (This is itself not uncontroversial: some scholars think the Fifth Party System has been replaced by a system of dealignment.)

Insofar as what I have said here has encyclopedic content, it is in Fifth Party System. So I propose to overturn and delete. Septentrionalis 15:51, 18 October 2006 (UTC)