Actually...we don't let everything get in. Only webcomics article get in.
Those vanity article tends to get edited into a encyclopedic article. We
even have a vague editorial policy like all article must be in NPOV. I have
a problem with those creators who create vanity article. Thier article
completely sucks, and self promoting, and I have to clean up their freaking
mess almost everyday. We don't let commerical adversiting in there, spaming
our encyclopedia with 100+ characters pages that have no purpose (In one
incident, I deleted more than 100 articles relating to every single comic
strips of Gaming Guardian.) Litterally any webcomics stuff can get in if
they are real unless they just plain grabage not worth editing, irrevleant,
orginal research, a review, hoax, etc.
On 10/16/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well,
there's been arguments put forward that this sort of thing is a
"fork" that does indeed harm Wikipedia (and perhaps the forked wiki too)
by subjecting both to contributor drain - if the two wikis were merged
they'd each have more people working on their contents. I'm not so sure
about this, but I nevertheless think it's probably a net loss to be
deleting content from Wikipedia that's perfectly acceptable for other
encyclopedias to cover.
The problem with this is, that Comixpedia is a collection of all
webcomics they can think of there's no editorial control and literally
anything can get in. Merging that with Wikipedia would introduce
scores of what are basically vanity articles for the creators. Just
try arguing for undeletion with a solid claim backed up by references.
--Mgm
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