Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jonti Picking

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The result of the debate was keep. —Korath (Talk) 17:05, Mar 17, 2005 (UTC)

Jonti Picking

Vanity? Flash-cruft? Encyclopedic? 147 google hits. [1] --GRider\^talk 01:53, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• He is only notably for Weebl and Bob, one of the 10^9 online animations with no obvious indication of notability. Delete both as far as I'm concerned. JFW | T@lk 02:36, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, non-encyclopedic, possible vanity. ComCat 04:13, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep User:Cryomaniac 15:53, 8 Mar 2005 (GMT)
• Keep. For a web celebrity, the creator of Kenya and Magical Trevor would seem to me to have enough notability to be article-worthy. -- Smerdis of Tlön 16:30, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Strong keep. Are you nuts? It's one of the most famous flash cartoonists! Grue 16:32, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Strong keep Has quite a following in the UK, Weebl and Bob made it onto TV, he has made TV adverts, his toons have been viewed millions of times over and have won awards.. And he met Brian Blessed. Definitly article worthy.
  • But you didn't sign, 81.152.138.56. Alai 15:44, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Move to a better title. This guy is easily the Web celebrity's Web celebrity. After all, we don't have an article at Reginald Dwight, it redirects to the name by which he is more widely known. Similarly, perhaps this should be the article at Weebl. Chris 18:26, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Strong Keep There is absolutely no reason why this should even be considered for deletion. Also there is no reason why "Kenya" had to be merged with this article. Now it's top heavy. Why are people on Wikipedia so against flash cartoons?--The_stuart 23:10, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Because there's oodles of them and most are not notable. Radiant! 09:04, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
• Merge onto Weeble and Bob or however you spell that. Radiant! 09:04, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
• Keep A certain notoriety. There's probably scope for some rearranging within this 'category', though: if this article isn't at Weebl, that should at least redirect there. And couldn't Magical Trevor be merged in too? Neither article seems likely to grow significantly. Alai 15:44, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. Notable on the Internet. His cartoons are kind of hard to avoid, actually. In fact, the remaining articles on his various cartoons should be merged here. — Gwalla | Talk 04:56, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and keep. He went from Flash to MTV to making TV ads too. Famous. - David Gerard 10:10, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Strong keep. Jonti's animations - especially the badgers - have been seen by millions of net users. His Weebl and Bob series has been shown on MTV and released on DVD and produced adverts too. In terms of Internet media personalities, Weebl's at the top, and easily notable enough for an article. Drw25 16:14, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Strong keep for reasons stated. If his work and its style are notable enough to get him regular work plugging a major product, he's certainly worthy of an article. - Lucky 6.9 01:43, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep — If we delete this page, should we delete the The Brothers Chaps page? —Wins oddf|✎ 02:34, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Keep User:Twrist Not a brilliantly written article, but this individual seems to be getting more famous in the UK, particularly since the broadcast of said advertisements.
• KeepUser:Metzgermeister I agree with Twrist, that this isn't superbly written. However, wikipedia is a great source for obscure bits of knowledge. Considering Jonti is a celebrity among the online community, I believe this should be kept.

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