[WikiEN-l] Another notability casualty

[Carcharoth]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is of course true too.  People don't think video game composers deserve
> to have articles; so they argue for non-notability.
>
> Whether this should be the case is another story.  I consider this to be
> an abuse of the rules.
>
> ----
> That's an example of a fairly common human prejudice against new creative
> genres.  Novels were held in light esteem while Henry Fielding and Jane
> Austen were writing them--light entertainment for adolescent girls.  It
> wasn't really until Thackeray that the genre became respectable reading for
> serious adults.  When motion pictures were new they were mostly regarded as
> light entertainment for working class audiences.  Partly as a result, nearly
> 90% of the films from the silent era weren't curated and have been lost
> forever.
> Of course 90% of every genre is crap and the Pac-Man theme will probably
> torment me for the next three hours.  But Austen was nearly forgotten for
> fifty years after her death--I wonder what critics of the next generation
> will say about the theme music from Morrowind.

Interesting comparison with historical antecedants! This is more the
sort of level of debate I'd like to see at AfD. I wonder what a
closing admin would make of it... :-)

Carcharoth