Delirium wrote:
http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/ See what I mean about the dangers of reasoning from personal ignorance? Now I eagerly await objections that don't boil down to "but webcomics are worse for Wikipedia than Pokemon."
Assuming that was directed at me, then I'm not sure what you mean about "the dangers of reasoning from personal ignorance".
I meant the implication that there was not and could not be an actual academic peer-reviewed journal of webcomics, which has come up a bit in this thread - that's definitely arguing from personal ignorance.
I was arguing against the general principle that we ought to write novel histories in cases where existing ones don't exist. If in this particular case one does exist, then of course that doesn't apply.
Of course. Every crank has fifty references for their original research stitched together in a novel fashion, but that doesn't make it not original research.
- d.