Webcomics Nation was nominated as a Language and literature good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (May 8, 2020). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated. |
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The site is down at the moment. Anyone know how long it has been down, or whether it's likely to return? A couple of other major webcomics host sites have gone away in the last year or so. — Tamfang ( talk) 05:51, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
Frustratingly, I cannot find any confirmation that the merger between ComicSpace and Webcomics Nation ever truly happened. All sources that talk about it predate the event, and I can find no mention on it on Manley's TalkAboutComics blog. Interestingly, it seems ComicSpace actually moved to Webcomics Nation in 2013? But there are no sources on this either, not even a freakin' forum post. Could anyone shed more light on the evolving relationship between these platforms? I am unable to find a source that specifies when ComicSpace closed down (I know Manley's website closed down in April 2013, but ComicSpace was founded and co-owned by Roberts, so it may not apply). Thank you very much to anyone who knows any more on this subject. ~ Maplestrip/Mable ( chat) 08:56, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
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Reviewer: Morgan695 ( talk · contribs) 20:35, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
I'll be taking up this review. Full comments to follow.
Morgan695 (
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Sadly, this is a well-written start-class article that fails GAR because it is a ways from meeting
GACR3. The main issue here is breadth of coverage and comprehensiveness, with the article just being four paragraphs: there's nothing on the impact or legacy of the service (beyond one sentence indicating it was financially successful); the article mentions the cartoonists who beta tested the site, but does not discuss who actually used it post-launch; there's no in-depth detail on what its functionality actually was, or what services it provided (
this source seems to indicate that it provided a range of functionalities, but none of this info is in the article; the parts that do allude to functionality read a bit like marketing copy, i.e. do for webcomics what services like Blogger and Flickr did for blogs and photo sharing
); there's no real information about the site's closure, with the reader made to infer the factors that led to its decline through Manley's comment about the merger being difficult, etc.
It seems that generally, the service gets mostly passing references in the sources provided in the article. I see you mentioned in the nomination edit summary on the article talk page that you had difficultly finding sourced information on this topic; perhaps that, combined with the scant information you could find, is evidence that this subject is not especially notable. The article needs to be significantly expanded in scope before it can meet GA standards, so I have elected to fail it at this time, but would encourage the editor to re-nominate if the article can be sufficiently expanded to meet GACR3. Morgan695 ( talk) 22:28, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
The URL now serves malware.
(2020-09-19, link to
http://www do not click .webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic_plus/series.php?view=archive&chapter=18043
as given on the valid page
http://narbonic.com/comic/july-25-30-2005/
on a Mac running Safari)
I will note that in the current status box.