Talk:User Friendly

message: I have merged in the content from the articles for Dust Puppy and Erwin in preparation of a redirect of those two pages to this page.  This main article still has lots of room for character descriptions.  If/when the article grows too large, those pages can be resplit out. Rossami 15:21, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Start of merge

message: OK... some nice things to have in the article (but no time to write about them):
*Ufie Comment board community, importance/effect in UF populariry, Illiways (is this the right spelling?), etc.
*LOTD and Slashdot effect
Kio 03:54, 2005 Feb 9 (UTC)
:OK, as noboby else did it, and I managed to return home "early" from work today, I have included the first paragraphs. Please check and expand! Kio 02:10, 2005 Apr 27 (UTC)
::Can the entry about the slashdot effect be removed ? Not only are there no citations for it, there have not been any complaints on the userfriendly comments board itself about access problems to the link of the day recently. There were such posts in the past which were indicative of a web server overload taking place on the link of the day. I did a search on google for the strings lotd and ufied (in domain userfriendly.org) which are used to denote this, and the last entry I can see is from 2005. Please disregard if anyone has recent exaples of this happening.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Treason of isengard (talk • contribs) 12:13, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested improvements 

message: Are we sure that we want these here? This article is only supposed to contain a summary of User Friendly characters after all. --huwr 01:50, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed, although I must thank whoever put them there for showing me how to reduce the size of those mega-huge headshots on the characters page. Nifboy 05:53, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Character Images 

message: The characters are all described in a separate page.  Either the character section in this page or the separate page should be removed.  Opine. SnappingTurtle 21:32, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it would be better to delete the section in the main article and leave the User Friendly characters page with all the information. --Kio 01:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Character descriptions are redundant 

message: The example gives no indication of the artist's standard style nor the usual appearance of the comic. Perhaps someone can find a better one. --Fastfission 16:53, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I replaced the example with a more representative strip.  We had a discussion on the board about this topic and the strip I chose seemed the be the most popular and best candidate. SnappingTurtle 15:36, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Example is not representative

message: This article does not cite any independent sources. In addition, parts are not written in the proper formal tone. The recurring themes section should be integrated as appropriate. See the article on Red vs. Blue for a good example of a Featured Article on a primarily web-distributed comedy work with similarly goofy characters. This comic deserves to have a FA quality article!--Drat (Talk) 06:55, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: Please sensure when editing this section you cite proper reliable sources – that is, published by reliable third parties. In particular, Metafilter is neither reliable not a third party, so is not suitable. No cited reliable source has as yet indicated there is any problem with any cartoon before 2009, so alleging (or hinting) there are problems with cartoons published in printed works is inappropriate as well. As this section concerns potentially libellous allegations concerning a living person, WP:BLP needs to be followed scrupulously on this. Thanks. --Rogerb67 (talk) 19:35, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Plagiarism" section 

message: I was experimenting with Freebase's Genderizer a few days ago and wasn't sure how to classify Erwin when he/she/it came up in the "fictional characters" category. Further, this strip seems to not decide on either side. I haven't read all the strips yet, so does anyone know of another strip that clearly defines what gender Erwin is? --Waldir talk 22:50, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: OTOH, this one refers to it as "he", "him", so I suppose we can take that as evidence, right? --Waldir talk 22:53, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Not necessarily, as male gendered pronouns are (traditionally) used as gender-neutral. See http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/genpr.htm .  -- BeezHive (talk|contribs) 00:49, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: this one seems to exclude it as a female. I'll add other relevant strips as I find them and then there might be enough evidence to decide on this. --Waldir talk 20:03, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

text: * http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20000622 --Waldir talk 18:06, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I don't think he's ever been referred to as female; only Pitr seemed unsure of his gender.  Futhermore, "Erwin" is a clearly masculine name.  This seems pretty clear-cut to me.  Powers T 13:09, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks :) I'll nevertheless continue adding more evidence here as I go through their archives. --Waldir talk 22:02, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Erwin's gender 

message: The comic hasn't been updated in over 7 months. It's safe to say it is OVER and the wikipage should be updated to show that it (the comic) has ended.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.146.90.129 (talk) 07:41, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It isn't over. Looks like today (2nd August 2010) we are getting new strips again. Nrms (talk) 07:32, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: and its back to old strips as of 19th September 2010 78.105.108.34 (talk) 12:17, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Illiad has had deaths in his family, and has reshuffled priorities in his life. There have been several announcements to that end by him on the website, but unfortunately I haven't archived the links. He said he would be returning to write new strips (although not on a daily basis) once his life has settled again, sometime during late 2010. Perhaps one of the more regular visitors to both UserFriendly.org and the Wikipedia could provide a good summary and links. -- DevSolar (talk) 10:51, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

text: Found one of the links: . There have been others I cannot Google right now. Apparently  there has also been a car accident I missed about. (Reply to that post states he will be doing a story arc this November.)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by DevSolar (talk • contribs) 11:11, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

text: There hasn't been any new strips in months. I think it's safe to say it's in hiatus or over. -- Itzcuauhtli (talk) 00:38, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

text: This is March 2013. Nothing new. I would consider changing a lot of the wording from "is" to "was."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 54.241.17.245 (talk) 14:54, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

text: This is December 2016. I think it's safe to say the comic is dead. 75.88.40.130 (talk) 23:13, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comic is over 

message: In the character descriptions of Sid and Pitr, it is suggested Pitr may be an illegitimate son of Sid; where exactly does this happen? The only place I am aware of this is in the showdown where they both met the first time, and are in a kind of 'Jeopardy' contest. Sid asks 'Who is your daddy' and Pitr answers with a 'I suppose it could be you', as a 'tongue in cheek' commentary, due to Sid's age. There are nonetheless some panels where Pitr and his brother Dave appear with both his parents (mom & dad), and it turns out there is no Sid to be seen. Where did this come from, or why is this assumption posted?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.80.173.40 (talk) 00:23, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: "In some strips there are hints that he is probably an illegitimate son of Sid"

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I propose to merge J. D. Frazer into User Friendly. The current article on J.D. Frazer has only one citation, and that is a link to a post written by Frazer. Frazer does not appear to have notability outside of his work on User Friendly, and I feel generally it is common to have an article on a webcomic but not the author unless the author has done multiple projects. Given that there is only one paragraph about Frazer in his article (the rest of the article is about User Friendly), I think that the content of the J.D. Frazer article can easily be included into the User Friendly article. 
HenryCrun15 (talk) 21:53, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: My only involvement with this article is fixing a disambiguation link, but I have no objection to the proposed merge. The information would fit together. BD2412 T 22:06, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

text: I have no objection to the proposed merge, but also claim no particular knowledge about the subjects. Cnilep (talk) 00:36, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: That sounds pretty good, but I also present those same disclaimers. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 15:57, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

text: Support – This seems to me like a good move. I'm not really finding anything notable about Frazer either, besides User Friendly of course. Merge away :) ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 07:43, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, it's done. HenryCrun15 (talk) 01:05, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal