[WikiEN-l] Re: Webcomics/Deletion again

Wed Oct 26 15:00:14 UTC 2005

"Alphax" <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote in 
message news:435F6564.4010207 at gmail.com...
[snip]
> "Is noted outside of the community it originated" is one of the things I
> tried to pin to the "notable" tag (foolish me). By that I mean: "has
> received attention outside of its own fandom".
> So, a website which sells widgets and is unknown outside of the widget
> community should not have an article; a website which is reasonably
> well-known in the widget community should be mentioned in the article on
> widgets; and a website which sells widgets, well known within the widget
> community, /which has been Slashdotted/, could have it's own article.

The problem here is that there are many people/things which are extremely 
interesting but---until we write about them---all but unknown **outside 
their particular subject community**.

For example, I doubt if I could name half-a-dozen Particle Physicists. I'll 
bet you there are ten times that many who deserve an article of their own, 
but you'd be hard put to it to convince some of the hard-core AFD 
deletionists of it, because they simply vote "nn, never heard of them" 
without even giving the appearance of reading the article.

What I can't understand is that I come to an encyclopaedia wanting to find 
things I **don't** already know about, not endless regurgitation of stuff I 
already knew. So rejecting an article on the grounds that I don't already 
know the subject matter seems nonsensical to me.

Am I alone?
-- 
Phil
[[en:User:Phil Boswell]] 