[WikiEN-l] Scott McCloud on Wikipedia

[The Cunctator]

On 2/26/07, T P <t0m0p0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think assuming that Scout McCloud's POV outweighs mine is bad.
>
> I am not claiming that the field is not important.  I am claiming that we
> shouldn't take Scout McCloud's word for it that it is important.

Right, and I'm asking you why we shouldn't, considering that he is one
of the world's top experts on sequential art.

I'd take Lonnie Thompson's word for what's important with respect to glaciology.


> This is what "a grain of salt" means, that you should not swallow someone's
> opinion whole.  It doesn't mean that you should ignore their opinion
> entirely.

Were you being ironically didactic, or do you actually think I didn't
understand you?

>
> On 2/26/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 27/02/07, T P <t0m0p0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 2/26/07, Phil Sandifer <Snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Feb 26, 2007, at 7:09 PM, T P wrote:
> >
> > > > > Because he's an expert in the field of webcomics
> >
> > > > That's not true. He is clearly an expert on comics in general.
> >
> > > All right, I didn't know that.  But the point stands that experts in
> > their
> > > fields routinely overestimate the importance of their fields.
> >
> >
> > The point also stands that you're clearly assuming that if you don't
> > know about it (as you just showed you didn't) then it must not be
> > important or relevant. This is the fundamental stupidity at the heart
> > of the AFD problem.
> >
> >
> > - d.
> >
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