Reply to Sigvald

[Stefan Persson]

<quote>RANKING THE ARTISTS POPULARITY
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Lately there has been a dispute about WEB-polls here on DCML. That's not the
first time I have seen people arguing in somewhat "arrogant" way against
polls that shows results that they may not like themselves. TV2's
phone-polls have been met the same way here in Norway.

Anyway instead of arguing in favour of, or against the value of the nice
Polish web-poll I have done my own *scientific* popularity check by using
Google to search for the name of various well-known Disney creators/artists.
The search was done with the full name of the artists within quote-marks
like this: "Carl Barks". Here are the results:

Rank  Artist	    Google-hits   %
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1    Carl Barks        25100  (41,1%)
2    Don Rosa          12600  (20,6%)
3    Vicar*             6850  (11,2%)
4    David Gerstein     2790  ( 4,6%)
5    Floyd Gottfredson  2280  ( 3,7%)
6    Marco Rota         2200  ( 3,6%)
7    Romano Scarpa      2080  ( 3,4%)
8    William van Horn   1880  ( 3,1%)
9    Al Taliaferro      1280  ( 2,1%)
10    Olaf Solstrand     1140  ( 1,9%)
11    Paul Murry         1110  ( 1,8%)
12    Tony Strobl         947  ( 1,6%)
13    Freddy Milton       676  ( 1,1%)
14    Dan Jippes          106  ( 0,2%)
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* As Vicar is a very normal word I had to search for "Vicar" + 
Disney</quote>

Did you search for "Dan Jippes" or "Daan Jippes"?

In the case of Olaf, I guess that he got a higher place than he deserves 
because his name appears so many times in the DCML archieves, e.g. in his 
own mails.

Stefan

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