Talk:Ryan North

message: This page has stuff that makes no sense in his Biography, as you should be aware.. despite
it being glaringly obvious. Ryan North and Andrew Hussie are friends and have a fictional rivalry
where they make up nonsense about each other, tall tales, pranks, etc. This probably the work of their fans, and I am one of them (but not a vandal), carrying on the motif of nonsense. These are examples of their fictional personas in their work... self-deprecating versions of themselves.. I don't know if posting this tangent, because it's humorous in nature, is "unprofessional" or not under Wikipedia's standards, but this is situatuional evidence. And the vandalism is probably fan made, by my heresay and nothing else. http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=ryanquest&p=000001 http://andrewhussie.blogspot.ca/ 209.91.178.128 (talk) 19:24, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Seeing as this thing has been covered by Boing Boing and Polygon, I suppose it should be covered here. However, I'd say it should be handled as a creative endeavor rather than an incident in his life. It was a minor viral gag, I suppose? I have no idea how to incorporate it in the current article, however. I think it generally needs some restructuring... ~Mable (chat) 08:42, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
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message: Why would you change Ryan speaks French to Ryan is bilingual? That's less informative.
The author omited the fact that Ryan is a freaking genius, this should be rectified
-XC3N
:It should be rectified if you can find an npov way of putting it :) MosheZadka 01:17, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm pretty sure Ryan has claimed this several times in one of the "commentary" texts at Dinosaur Comics, so if someone can find one of these we can just demonstrate that Ryan considers himself to be a genius, which is POV-free :-D --Grey Knight ⊖ 19:29, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
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message: Due to persistent vandalism against this page, I have put it under semi-protection.  I will try removing the protection in a few days and if the vandalism returns, I will block those responsible without additional warning. –Abe Dashiell (t/c) 00:58, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why can't people keep that stuff in the Chicken article? :P 24.34.51.87 (talk) 10:59, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
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message: How notable actually is this individual? Can we find him discussed anywhere reputable other than that one article? Skittle 17:37, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  How do you measure notability? By mass or volume? --Turbothy 22:14, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I measure it according to WP:Notability. Specifically "One notability criterion shared by nearly all of the subject-specific notability guidelines, as well as Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, is the criterion that a topic is notable if it has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, reliable published works, whose sources are independent of the subject itself. Skittle 22:51, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Oh, okay. There are two (aka multiple) independent sources listed for the article. Muster passed. --Turbothy 13:14, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Read the whole thing :-) Multiple was why I was looking for more. As far as non-trivial, reliable published works go, the Globe and Mail definately counts. I'm less sure of the 'Tall Poppy' thing. Everything else referenced there is by him. So, since people here seem to follow the guy and his media presence, and since we claim his Wikipedia/chicken thing has been reported in 'mass media', I would expect us to be able to find something on top of the Globe and Mail. So I assume you know of such things? Preferably not just interviews, but they'd do too. Something in a fairly big newspaper perhaps. Two would just barely scrape into the 'multiple' criteria, but if it's only going to be two, they're going to have to be pretty good on all other counts. Skittle 15:11, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I'm inclined to think he satisfies the critieron "Published authors, editors and photographers who received multiple independent reviews of or awards for their work."  He has published collections of his works, and he's won numerous non-trivial awards within the webcomics community.  However, I should also freely confess my bias as one of Mr North's friends, so my opinion should be taken with the proverbial grain of salt.  -- Merope 16:05, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: So we should be able to find records of these things in reputable sources! It's not enough just to know that he has received reviews and awards, we need to find sources and cite that. It sounds like that should be relatively easy to do, and I assume you know where to look for these? :-) Skittle 16:31, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  How does the National Post sound? "Ryan North, an Ottawa native now based in Toronto, created the hugely popular daily webcomic (at qwantz.com) from boilerplate clip-art, like David Rees' Get Your War On." from Sarah Silverman hired by Hallmark, Nathalie Atkinson, National Post   Published: Thursday, February 07, 2008 -- 99.236.158.42 (talk) 07:16, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: It seems like Project Wonderful should be covered here?  Lot 49atalk 02:42, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
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message: A joke in XKCD seems to rely on him either being unusually short, or unusually tall - which is it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.221.13.140 (talk) 11:18, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
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