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.org<http://www.comixpedia.org>can 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.