Comments on: Dammit, People, I Said It Was The Last Word

By: Fleen: Enjoy Our Semi-Abusive Opinion Mongering » So Maybe The Future Is Free-Plus?

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:39:39 +0000

[...] Speaking of disappearing comics, for those of you wondering how much it takes to get rid of a webcomic from Wikipedia, the answer is two votes out of three. To quote the eminently quotable Kris Straub, That’s pretty goddamn weak. [...]

By: cha0ss

cha0ss — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:22:43 +0000

I complained about the policy, and got a nice generic response. When I replied, and referred to their amateur editors as “WikiNazis,” the correspondence abruptly ended. Oh, well, eff ‘em if they can’t take a joke.

By: Fleen: Written by bitter, haggard wordbeasts » Wiki Issues Just Keep Comin’

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:02:22 +0000

[...] Gary More commentary on the latest webcomics/Wikipedia interaction, from Rich Stevens this time: Tonight’s comic is a shout out to all the people in webcomics who have been targeted for deletion on Wikipedia recently. There seems to be a pretty big bias over there against the legitimacy and relevance of web-based strips, which strikes me as pretty goony for a non-official encyclopedia with enough room to include every obscure topic in the universe. [...]

By: RobotSkirts » Blog Archive » Fleen: Written by bitter, haggard wordbeasts Â» Dammit, People, I Said It Was The Last Word

Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:02:48 +0000

[...] Dammit, People, I Said It Was The Last Word You know you’ve made it when someone creates a Wikipedia page for you and then you get popular enough to have someone else systematically delete you. [...]

By: scott kurtz

scott kurtz — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:05:32 +0000

Coming to Kris with the WCCAs and saying “If you don’t like it then you should work to make it better.” is like a waiter bringing me a hot soda and telling me that the 7-11 across the street has ice.

By: Ravenswood

Ravenswood — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:23:29 +0000

RE: “Iâ€™ve had my wiki article deleted at LEAST twice. Iâ€™m sure itâ€™ll get deleted a few times more. I donâ€™t give a SHIT. Why should I?”

Here’s a question for you, Zach: Why should I waste my time editing articles on Wikipedia when all my work gets erased and all my opinions are ignored?

Right, Wikipedia isn’t sinking. It’s simply created a novel way of serving large quantities of seawater to its thirsty guests.

By: Kristofer Straub

Kristofer Straub — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 07:24:13 +0000

I can draw a ceremony for the WCCAs in one day, if that’s what you mean. I can spend 10 hours on Wikipedia, yes. No, I don’t have three weeks to spend on the WCCAs. I don’t want to argue with you, man, honest.

And I linked comixpedia.org from my publicity stunt. It’s the webcomics wiki worth editing.

The upsetting thing is that I would actually say “hand over the WCCAs. I will do it right,” if only to be able to say “see, William G? I do care.”

You know what, Kristofer Straub and William G running the WCCAs would probably be the most interesting year the awards have ever had. We want people to care, right?

By: The William G

The William G — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 04:29:05 +0000

What?! No time?

Kris, that’s bull, and you know it. You had the time to pull this little publicity stunt off, and you had the time to draw the awards ceremony for the WCCAs last year.

Unless you meant “I only have time for the spotlight”?

Webcomics has a wiki. It’s widely ignored, but it strives to be all inclusive, and really needs the community’s support. Even the support of people with no time for anything but getting high-fives from their pals.

I’d be lying if I said that I haven’t been fictionalising important parts of history on Wikipedia for some time now. And I’ve mostly succeeded. It’s such a joke, unless you are making things up about, say, Charmeleon.

By: Jeff Lowrey

Jeff Lowrey — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:45:11 +0000

It is a truism in American life, especially the last six years, that nobody likes to live under the tyranny of the masses.

Wikipedia is merely illustrating that for the rest of y’all.