On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:35:47 -0500, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
Hi main beef was that we speedy deleted the initial version of the article about his more recent comic Erfworld.
Which could have been avoided by people waiting to see what the critical reception was before creating the article. Wikipedia is not, I think, supposed to be the web's no. 1 "you read it here first" cutting edge news source.
My opinion is slightly coloured by the fact that I think no music can be accurately assessed as historically important until the writer dies. I make a small exception for the Beatles (since they've been "dead" as a band for a few decades).
One day people will look back at our thousands of articles on albums by deathgrindcore bands that sold ten thousand copies and will laugh that anybody could be bothered to catalogue them.
I've nearly persuaded my children of this. Nearly.
Guy (JzG)