[WikiEN-l] I believe I called this some time ago...

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Quoting Philip Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com>:

> It is certainly misguided. But had we not so utterly soured our
> relationship with the webcomics community (and we have - there is very
> little rational discussion to be had with webcomics people about
> Wikipedia anymore based on the slap in the face that the previous
> campaign was) we could probably come to some sort of understanding
> with a lot of them. Instead we made that impossible, because we're
> awesome like that.
>
> -Phil

But see my last post, where I noted all the major webcomics who are ok 
with us.
We've really only pissed off a subset of the community and to some extent much
of that subset are people who would be pissed at us anyways. Pissing 
off Howard
Tayler was bad, and we should try to do everything we can to get him 
back on our
side if it is at all possible. But for a lot of the others they would 
have been
pissed at us eventually. See for example at
http://www.partiallyclips.com/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=78b47d2cc544fd659e2a8d4b41f92175&topic=1971.45
where Rob Balder responds to a polite attempt by Mindspillage to explain
notability and a few other issues.

Sure, pissing people off is bad but let's keep this in perspective. 
Also, let's
remember that part of the entire webcomics problem was a backlash against an
inclusion criterion for any webcomic with even a very low Alexa rating. So
maybe one lesson from this should be "don't lower inclusion bars for any
subject, because when you raise them again you'll get lots of stress 
and drama"