Quoting Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com:
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/30/wikiwatch-how-did-...
Oh look. Our webcomics deletionism has driven off contributors and hurt the project.
I'm surprised. Are you surprised? I'm surprised.
Up to a point, many of the webcomics deleted didn't meet notability and it is telling that one of the chief complaints about the webcomics deletions were that deletion reduced the traffic they were getting. We could have handled the webcomics matter much more effectively and diplomatically (and some of the AfD attempts were frankly ridiculous) but many of the webcomics removed we were correct to remove.