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

[David Gerard]

On 09/11/2007, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:

> This should never have got this far, though.  When did Comixpedia go
> online?  Wikipedia could never be the global directory of all
> webcomics, that is something we are not and Comixpedia apparently
> is; we should have been better at communicating that.


That Howard Tayler mounted his campaign apparently unaware of the
existence of Comixpedia doesn't speak well to Comixpedia's mindshare
in its supposed primary audience, the webcomics subculture.


> And actually we should have <puts a pound in the buzzword box>
> leveraged the Wikiproject here.  The webcomics editors include many
> long-time, sensible, practical people.  A system of filtering,
> triage, review and selective quiet removal, led by people who know
> what they are talking about, is much harder to complain about.
> Question: do Wikiprojects have the self-discipline to be trusted?


Some do, some don't. When I started the Scientology one, I tried very
hard to word the page so as not to appear to be claiming ownership of
the area, for example - every decision has got to fly with uninvolved
Wikipedians.


> In other words, if we made the first stage of AfD a direction to the
> Wikiprojects, with no comments allowed in the "catch-all" criterion
> until they had been assessed as properly identified deletion
> candidates, would the projects prevent deletion of everything they
> like, regardless of objective measures of quality and verifiability?


Even with some less-than-stellar Wikiprojects (I don't have any
current examples in mind), it would be worth a try. Though I expect
Wikiproject Crappy Garage Bands, etc. to form soon after.


- d.