On 09/11/2007, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
This should never have got this far, though. When did Comixpedia go online? Wikipedia could never be the global directory of all webcomics, that is something we are not and Comixpedia apparently is; we should have been better at communicating that.
That Howard Tayler mounted his campaign apparently unaware of the existence of Comixpedia doesn't speak well to Comixpedia's mindshare in its supposed primary audience, the webcomics subculture.
And actually we should have <puts a pound in the buzzword box> leveraged the Wikiproject here. The webcomics editors include many long-time, sensible, practical people. A system of filtering, triage, review and selective quiet removal, led by people who know what they are talking about, is much harder to complain about. Question: do Wikiprojects have the self-discipline to be trusted?
Some do, some don't. When I started the Scientology one, I tried very hard to word the page so as not to appear to be claiming ownership of the area, for example - every decision has got to fly with uninvolved Wikipedians.
In other words, if we made the first stage of AfD a direction to the Wikiprojects, with no comments allowed in the "catch-all" criterion until they had been assessed as properly identified deletion candidates, would the projects prevent deletion of everything they like, regardless of objective measures of quality and verifiability?
Even with some less-than-stellar Wikiprojects (I don't have any current examples in mind), it would be worth a try. Though I expect Wikiproject Crappy Garage Bands, etc. to form soon after.
- d.