tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573016.post117227067871661761..comments2024-02-11T02:24:22.330-06:00Comments on Nonbovine Ruminations: Webcomics and WikipediaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04107127399494404366noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33573016.post-1172522505216981002007-02-26T14:41:00.000-06:002007-02-26T14:41:00.000-06:00I love how everyone assumes it's articles about my...I love how everyone assumes it's articles about my own stuff I'm upset about. Articles about my projects (PartiallyClips and Erfworld) have already proven their notability by the asinine and ever-creeping standards of Wikipedia. My stuff is safe from even the hardcore deletionists.<BR/><BR/>But certain deletionist Wikipedians are attacking my <I>field</I>. Some of them are manipulating the notability standards into absurdity, then using those bogus standards to destroy any webcomics article they can. Nearly all webcomics articles have undergone a spurious deletion <I>challenge</I>. Many creators and fans (including my fans) fought back and successfully restored the article. But articles on over a hundred important comics and institutions have failed to react fast enough or fight hard enough to ward off these unwarranted, organized attacks. <BR/><BR/>So they bit the dust. Webcomics suffered. Wikipedia suffered. For what? Who won? Who benefitted from the destruction of that information?<BR/><BR/>Those editors who stroll through the Great Library of Alexandria "improving" things by selectively burning away entire shelves don't deserve courtesy. Deletionism is barbarism, wrapped in intellectual pretense. <BR/><BR/>Wikipedia is run by Vogons. Maybe there's nothing I can do to change that, but I'm not Arthur Dent. You <I>forfeit</I> politeness when you bulldoze a guy's house (or whole planet) and pat yourself on the back for it. If all I can do is scream obscenities until I am shoved out the airlock, then that's what I'm going to do.<BR/><BR/>What I don't get is why <I>wouldn't</I> you expect a verbal punch in the nose from someone whose work you dismissed as meaningless?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com