Han Dao wrote:
Who care if that article ''The Jar'' get deleted from wikipedia. If wikipedia don't want this webcomic article, than www.comixpedia.orghttp://www.comixpedia.orgcan have it. In that situtation everyone win! Because Wikipedia don't want this particular article, another wiki licensed under the GNUFDL can have it.
But it's not a case that "Wikipedia doesn't want this article", because Wikipedia isn't a monolithic entity with one opinion. I personally believe that every web comic with at least a hundred strips or so (as a very rough benchmark) deserves an article. Webcomics are somewhat of a specialized subject for an encyclopedia, sure, but Wikipedia is capable of specializing in _everything_.
In this case, an encyclopedia dedicated to webcomics who don't care about notablity/popluarity of a webcomic. In fact, we already tranwiki the article "The Jar" with credits to Wikipedia. See http://www.comixpedia.org/index.php/The_Jar So absolutely no harm done..
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.
But in any event, it's still only tangentally related to the issue that really bugged me here - that a small handful of voters could cast votes with paltry or nonexistant justifications given for them, and then that decision becomes very difficult to argue afterward. The whole "what is notable, and should notability matter" issue is another ball of wax.