G'day Tony, Worl, it's my view that Wikipedia needs articles on [[Elf Only Inn]]. It does *not* need articles on minor characters from EOI fanfic (if there is such a thing). Notable webcomics belong in Wikipedia. Unconscionable fanwank belongs in Comixpedia. Fortunately, with compatible licencing, we can share the best/worst of both. That's why I (and I assume geni) don't think of Comixpedia as a Bad Thing: it's a filter. Obviously, Comixpedia isn't a dumping ground for Wikipedia, but if they're willing to take what we don't want, and if we can import the stuff we do want but didn't realise, then that's good, surely? Compare ABP and AFP. -- Mark Gallagher "What? I can't hear you, I've got a banana on my head!" - Danger Mouse -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.0/168 - Release Date: 14/11/2005

On 11/15/05, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote: This doesn't seem very satisfactory to me. I'm always bumping into people who know nothing about lisp except that they don't like the language's ubiquitous brackets and they consider this to be such a grave failing in a programming language that it renders lisp almost useless, and that lisp is an interpretive language that must always be slow in execution. Should the articles about programming languages then be exiled to a specialist wiki? It is certainly true that a specialist is better able to detect hoaxes, but I don't see how this can be used as an argument for moving all articles about programming languages, web comics, pokemon or whatever to a specialist wiki, which would almost inevitably have fewer editors competent in the subject than the much larger and more popular English language Wikipedia. It is also the case that I'm competent in rather more subjects than programming languages, so it would be very inconvenient to deal with a number of fragmented wikis. Hoaxes aren't common enough to justify splitting the wikipedia, nor is the presence of the odd blithering ignoramus a problem.

On 11/15/05, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote: Ah, so it's not about fostering a good working environment at all, but about your belief that some topics are unencyclopedic and this may be rectified by forking "until they become encyopedic"? Could you explain this reasoning a bit more? Well if webcomic experts depart to form a new community, this is in effect a split in the community. One that you appear to think was a good thing.