Quoting Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net>et>:
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:01:42 -0500,
joshua.zelinsky(a)yale.edu wrote:
See for example at
http://www.partiallyclips.com/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=78b47d2cc544fd659e…
where Rob Balder responds to a polite attempt by Mindspillage to explain
notability and a few other issues.
Bizarre. We have an article on PartiallyClips and it was never
deleted.
Hi main beef was that we speedy deleted the initial version of the article
about his more recent comic Erfworld. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Erfworld
Quoting from a personal message to me "Erfworld was a "notable webcomic"
from
the moment it launched on the 5th highest traffic website in webcomics. It did
NOT need the Time blog or Dragon Magazine cites to prove it. Any system for
measuring notability which cannot accomodate an example like Erfworld is
broken. The webcomics notability system has been intentionally broken by
deletionists (one of whom speedy-deleted the original article)." - Now,
I think
he's wrong here (if I replaced "5th highest traffic website in webcomics"
with
""5th highest traffic website in crocheting" we would immediately see this
as
ridiculous (although I find the initial claim a bit ridiculous to start
with)).
However, he may have, beyond all the invective (I've taken this comment
out of a
longer message with much profanity) he may have a point: if something
looks like
it is very likely going to be notable, there isn't much harm in waiting a few
weeks. It will piss off fewer people and save us all time and effort.