geni wrote:
On 2/24/07, Philip Sandifer
<sandifer(a)english.ufl.edu> wrote:
The problem he has? Notability. Specifically the
arbitrary and
capricious way in which AfD targets things, questions their
notability, and uses guidelines that make no sense from the outside.
Treating those outside wikipedia as a single homogeneous group is
illogical. Different groups will have different views about whether or
not certain guidelines make sense. can find plenty of groups that
think including any webcomics at all make us inferior and think that
our inclusion of such non entities as penny arcade.
Who's saying that the outside is a single homogeneous group? At least
try to argue against what is said. Saying that what matters to others
is inferior is an act of pomposity. Who has the right to arrogate such
decisions to himself. I am not so special as to pass judgement on
someone else's interest in webcomics. Are you?
See also
Timothy Noah's recent article on Slate for this - it gives a
good view of how notability guidelines look to the outside. In this
case, it's how they look to the subject of the article, but I assure
you - they look similar to people who are familiar with the subject.
In short, they appear a Kafka-esque absurdity.
Almost any set of rules can be made to appear that way.
It's more than just appearing. Rules can be a refuge from thinking.
Ec