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User:Tenebrae/Toonopedia backup

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This is a list of the backups I've created for Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Don has passed away, and his life's work is too important to just go away whenever and if ever his family stops maintaining the web page. This involves two steps: Manually archiving pages at WebCitation.com, since the Wayback Machine cannot archive them, and then adding them to articles.

Initially, I triaged what seemed like the most obscure entries. By accident, I placed these in not one but two alphabetized lists below, one following the other.

With User:Darkwarriorblake having archived most of C and D, archiving of characters was completed on January 1, 2018. All complete except part of B, which is done through Bucky Bug, inclusive. Some archiving remains to be done of "The People Behind the Toons" and "The Companies That Produce the Toons"

  • See "Entries added to articles" subsection below for a list of what has been added where to the live site.

After being down for some months and then returning, Toonopedia was again offline as of April 28, 2015. It eventually returned for a few months, then went offline again as of at least August 7, 2015, but returned days later. By late-night August 28, 2015, the site was down again. Restored on August 31, 2015. Down again as of Oct. 21, 2015 but restored within a few days. Down again as of Dec. 4, 2015 and back up as of Dec. 6.

UPDATE: July 2, 2019 Webcitation.org has been down for weeks. Toonopedia is not achievable at Archive.org. I'm starting over, archiving Toonopedia at Archive.is. Some already were archived there prior to July 2, 2019. Did Webcitation "not yet added" up to all the N entries.

Archive.is-archived Toonopedia pages not yet added to Wikipedia entries

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June 25, 2013

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October 13, 2014

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August 10, 2014

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December 29, 2014

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February 9, 2015

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April 12, 2015

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April 14, 2015

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March 7, 2015

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http://archive.is/Pi0TE Miss America (Quality Comics) http://toonopedia.com/misamer1.htm http://archive.is/Pi0TE

March 8, 2015

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March 10, 2015

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August 27, 2015

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September 3, 2015

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July 15, 2016

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July 2, 2019

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July 3, 2019

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July 4, 2019

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Archive.is-archived Toonopedia pages that have not yet replaced WebCitation.org in Wikipedia articles

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April 12, 2015

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Webcitation-archived Toonopedia pages not yet added to Wikipedia entries

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[Fu Chang http://toonopedia.com/fuchang.htm MLJ Comics http://www.webcitation.org/66yGq9L3B

Watchmen http://toonopedia.com/watchmen.htm http://www.webcitation.org/6bZU7dRvf

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D

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Company entries that have been archived

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Entries added to articles

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Mad (magazine) http://toonopedia.com/mad.htm http://www.webcitation.org/6bkJKae1c archived Sept. 23, 2015 - added to Wikipedia article

Publishers and people

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NOTE: History log at this page and earlier.

Master list of titles for reference.

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Misc.

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Toonopedia fits the definition of reliable source for self-published work: "[I]ts author is an established expert whose work in the relevant field has been published by reliable third-party publications." Markstein was editor of Comics Revue, published by another party, from 1984 to 1987 and 1992 to 1996, and he edited the 1992 book A Prince Valiant Companion.

Additionally, Markstein and Toonopedia are recognized as authoritative by animation / comics historians including Mark Evanier [1], who said Markstein and his wife/collaborator were "responsible for much scholarship and research about the field of cartoons," and that, "We engaged in some friendly e-mailed debates about some of his facts but I never questioned Don's devotion to getting things right. I hope his family arranges for someone else to continue the project." Judging by the care we share for good research, I'm sure you know that, obviously, no source is perfect. That said, Jerry Beck calls Toonopedia "indispensible" [2], and in an obit quoted Animato! magazine founder Harry McCracken, now a technology editor-at-large for Time, saying he was "happy to see Toonopedia succeed and bring his work to a large audience", and quoted another respected author / historian, Fred Patten, who considered Markstein "a rare expert scholar" in the field and said he (Patten) himself "would go to his Toonopedia website for accurate and informative details about cartoon-related facts."

These are all in addition, of course, to the mainstream trade-press Editor & Publisher. I think by any objective standard all these points would show in an RfC, for instance, that Toonopedia fulfills the standard for WP:RS. I'm not sure anyone could find published sources of the same caliber that denigrate Toonopedia; I couldn't, in the considerable time I took to research and write this.

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