Jeff Raymond wrote:
Of course, never mind that our reliable source guideline is irresponsibly tipped toward dead-tree media, and because of this, it allows for arguments such as the one you've presented. As a result, we lose out on a significant number of worthwhile articles, look like idiots when we speedy an important webcomic, and lose a substantial amount of possible editors who could a) improve our coverage in that topic area, and b) do things in other subjects to improve things.
Can we *please* have a 9,000-repetition rule cutting off endless iterations on the mailing list? Doing a 9,001th iteration isn't going to make everybody slap their foreheads and say "OMG, you were right all along!" Look at the subject line, this even started from a comment about admins forgetting to log out...
Stan