On Sep 6, 2005, at 5:21 AM, Alphax wrote:
Now if the webcomics community feels wronged by the Wikipedia community, I am sorry. But we cannot help it if we find an article on our encyclopedia which fails our notability guidlines. It is not the job of Wikipedia, *and never will be*, to make things notable.
Which notability guidelines are these? The terrible webcomic ones that I outlined the problems of? Or the ones at [[WP:NOT]] where it says there are "no practical limit to the number of topics we can cover other than verifiability and the other points presented on this page?"
I mean, we're not talking about someone's garage band with a single self-released EP here. Articles are getting deleted that are verifiable articles on webcomics with substantial readerships. Elf Only Inn was picked up by the biggest webcomic syndicate online. Deleted.
And what on Earth does it mean to be notable outside its community? For a webcomic to be notable outside its own fans? Outside of webcomics fans in general? We're willing to have an article on each individual Simpsons episode (Explicitly - it's on the meta page "Wikipedia is not paper"). Are these notable outside of Simpsons fans? Or is the judgment that Simpsons fandom is somehow more notable than webcomics fandom? And if so, who's making that judgment?
-Snowspinner