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@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@gmail.com wrote:
On 27/02/07, T P t0m0p0@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/26/07, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@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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