Matthew Brown wrote:
On Nov 9, 2007 3:22 AM, Guy Chapman aka JzG
<guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
We obviously see it differently; I looked at the
size of the
country, saw it was a smaller population than my home town,
contextualised it with the papers in my home town, and went from
there. The entire circulation of that paper would not even half
fill the football ground in my home town.
True, but - I'm not sure that this is always a valid approach.
Notability doesn't always scale with population like that.
(Especially in a historical sense, when the entire population of
nations might not have fit in a decent-sized modern football ground,
way back when)
I can appreciate the insignificance of Guy's hometown. When it chooses
to declare independence maybe it will be as important as Surinam.
I really must
leave webcomics alone. I think that 99% of them are
not in the least bit notable, and others think that 99% of them are
of paramount importance. This is never going to make for a relaxing
life. Ah well.
Webcomics at least have the useful property of being largely harmless
if excessively covered within Wikipedia. Really, I suspect, it's way
too recent a phenomenon to be truly able to give them proper context.
However, if it's an area that becomes crufty, only webcomics nuts
probably will notice or care. Over-representation is one of the lesser
issues in our project, I feel.
I'm sure that the webcomic nuts are encouraged by the opposition.
Ec