On Nov 9, 2007, at 10:46 AM, joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu wrote:
Quoting Philip Sandifer
<snowspinner(a)gmail.com>om>:
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/30/wikiwatch-how-did…
Oh look. Our webcomics deletionism has driven off contributors and
hurt the project.
I'm surprised. Are you surprised? I'm surprised.
Up to a point, many of the webcomics deleted didn't meet notability
and it is
telling that one of the chief complaints about the webcomics
deletions were
that deletion reduced the traffic they were getting. We could have
handled the
webcomics matter much more effectively and diplomatically (and some
of the AfD
attempts were frankly ridiculous) but many of the webcomics removed
we were
correct to remove.
I've never denied that.
But there were users who had an active desire to remove webcomics
articles as thoroughly as they could get away with for reasons that
amounted to a lack of interest in the topic, a rigorous and definition-
based view of notability, and an utter disdain for actual expert
viewpoints.
That was a disaster.
I am all about removing promotional articles. But there exists a real
webcomics community that is interesting, notable, and has documented
sources and commentary. And our coverage of it was actively and
serially removed in as offensive a manner as possible.
-Phil