[WikiEN-l] Re: Webcomics/Deletion again

[Alphax]

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Phil Boswell wrote:
> "Alphax" <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote in 
> message news:435F6564.4010207 at gmail.com...
> [snip]
> 
>>"Is noted outside of the community it originated" is one of the things I
>>tried to pin to the "notable" tag (foolish me). By that I mean: "has
>>received attention outside of its own fandom".
>>So, a website which sells widgets and is unknown outside of the widget
>>community should not have an article; a website which is reasonably
>>well-known in the widget community should be mentioned in the article on
>>widgets; and a website which sells widgets, well known within the widget
>>community, /which has been Slashdotted/, could have it's own article.
> 
> 
> The problem here is that there are many people/things which are extremely 
> interesting but---until we write about them---all but unknown **outside 
> their particular subject community**.
> 
> For example, I doubt if I could name half-a-dozen Particle Physicists. I'll 
> bet you there are ten times that many who deserve an article of their own, 
> but you'd be hard put to it to convince some of the hard-core AFD 
> deletionists of it, because they simply vote "nn, never heard of them" 
> without even giving the appearance of reading the article.
> 

Alright, I admit it, it's a stupid idea.

> What I can't understand is that I come to an encyclopaedia wanting to find 
> things I **don't** already know about, not endless regurgitation of stuff I 
> already knew. So rejecting an article on the grounds that I don't already 
> know the subject matter seems nonsensical to me.
> 
> Am I alone?

No. It's just difficult to get one's head around all this...

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