There's nothing wrong with taking into account the opinions of people who
know nothing about webcomics. They have the advantage of objectivity, which
Scout McCloud does not.
Adam
On 2/26/07, Jake Nelson <duskwave(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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(a)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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 27/02/07, T P <t0m0p0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/26/07, Phil Sandifer
<Snowspinner(a)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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