Snowspinner wrote:
On Sep 6, 2005, at 5:21 AM, Alphax wrote:
Now if the webcomics community feels wronged by the Wikipedia community,
I am sorry. But we cannot help it if we find an article on our
encyclopedia which fails our notability guidlines. It is not the job of
Wikipedia, *and never will be*, to make things notable.
Which notability guidelines are these? The terrible webcomic ones that
I outlined the problems of? Or the ones at [[WP:NOT]] where it says
there are "no practical limit to the number of topics we can cover
other than verifiability and the other points presented on this page?"
Maybe you want to check [[WP:N]]. Just because something exists doesn't
make it notable.
I mean, we're not talking about someone's
garage band with a single
self-released EP here. Articles are getting deleted that are verifiable
articles on webcomics with substantial readerships. Elf Only Inn was
picked up by the biggest webcomic syndicate online. Deleted.
According to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/Elf_Only_Inn,
there are 13 deleted edits - you can restore them if you wish. Elf Only
Inn is a webcomic that I would call notable, even back in April. Other
webcomics, not so.
And what on Earth does it mean to be notable outside
its community? For
a webcomic to be notable outside its own fans? Outside of webcomics
fans in general? We're willing to have an article on each individual
Simpsons episode (Explicitly - it's on the meta page "Wikipedia is not
paper"). Are these notable outside of Simpsons fans? Or is the judgment
that Simpsons fandom is somehow more notable than webcomics fandom? And
if so, who's making that judgment?
It means "Just because fans of a particular (whatever) love this thing
to bits, doesn't mean we should have an article on it". There are video
games that are notable in their own right, and the storylines of those
video games are very notable amongst the fan community, but that doesn't
mean that we need articles on any of the events or characters from said
storylines.
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