[WikiEN-l] Scott McCloud on Wikipedia

[Jake Nelson]

The problem is that you've made multiple assertions that could be
described as "Scott McCloud is A, so B", but as has been shown, you
don't know enough about him to accurately state A, and B does not
necessarily follow from the A you have stated. [[Scott McCloud]] is a
good brief summary. I suggest reading it.

I don't think anyone's claimed he has some special power to rate the
importance of, say, webcomics in relation to the whole of human
knowledge. He is, however, the single most qualified person I can
think of to rate the relative importance of topics within the field of
comics, and among the most qualified in the broader field of
sequential art. It's up to the community as a whole to determine how
much importance that field has in Wikipedia. I think you'd find it to
have a fair amount of support.

-- Jake Nelson
[[en:User:Jake Nelson]]

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.
>
> 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.
>
> Adam
>
> 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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