[WikiEN-l] Scott McCloud on Wikipedia

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Feb 27 00:24:51 UTC 2007


On 27/02/07, T P <t0m0p0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/26/07, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 26, 2007, at 7:09 PM, T P wrote:

> > > Because he's an expert in the field of webcomics

> > That's not true. He is clearly an expert on comics in general.

> All right, I didn't know that.  But the point stands that experts in their
> fields routinely overestimate the importance of their fields.


The point also stands that you're clearly assuming that if you don't
know about it (as you just showed you didn't) then it must not be
important or relevant. This is the fundamental stupidity at the heart
of the AFD problem.


- d.



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