Jeff Raymond wrote:
Of course, never mind that our reliable source
guideline is irresponsibly
tipped toward dead-tree media, and because of this, it allows for
arguments such as the one you've presented. As a result, we lose out on a
significant number of worthwhile articles, look like idiots when we speedy
an important webcomic, and lose a substantial amount of possible editors
who could a) improve our coverage in that topic area, and b) do things in
other subjects to improve things.
Can we *please* have a 9,000-repetition rule cutting off endless
iterations on the mailing list? Doing a 9,001th iteration isn't going to
make everybody slap their foreheads and say "OMG, you were right all
along!" Look at the subject line, this even started from a comment about
admins forgetting to log out...
Stan