On Nov 9, 2007, at 1:18 PM, David Gerard wrote:
That said, the present campaign appears (I must say) somewhat petulant and ill-conceived as to what is article-worthy in Wikipedia. The notion of third-party verifiability is not widely appreciated.
I think the present campaign stems both from the astonishingly bad- faith and hostile campaign to drive webcomics contributors away combined with the jargony public face that Wikipedia shows users when it comes to new article creation.
It is certainly misguided. But had we not so utterly soured our relationship with the webcomics community (and we have - there is very little rational discussion to be had with webcomics people about Wikipedia anymore based on the slap in the face that the previous campaign was) we could probably come to some sort of understanding with a lot of them. Instead we made that impossible, because we're awesome like that.
-Phil