On Nov 9, 2007, at 10:46 AM, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
Quoting Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com:
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/30/wikiwatch-how-did-...
Oh look. Our webcomics deletionism has driven off contributors and hurt the project.
I'm surprised. Are you surprised? I'm surprised.
Up to a point, many of the webcomics deleted didn't meet notability and it is telling that one of the chief complaints about the webcomics deletions were that deletion reduced the traffic they were getting. We could have handled the webcomics matter much more effectively and diplomatically (and some of the AfD attempts were frankly ridiculous) but many of the webcomics removed we were correct to remove.
I've never denied that.
But there were users who had an active desire to remove webcomics articles as thoroughly as they could get away with for reasons that amounted to a lack of interest in the topic, a rigorous and definition- based view of notability, and an utter disdain for actual expert viewpoints.
That was a disaster.
I am all about removing promotional articles. But there exists a real webcomics community that is interesting, notable, and has documented sources and commentary. And our coverage of it was actively and serially removed in as offensive a manner as possible.
-Phil