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| Apparently no one bothers to read what I write. I just asked you to find a sprite comic still in production that's older than NC. Also, there's a 1UP article that clearly points to NC as the source of sprite comics. (I'm not linking to it, the link is in a topic entitled "NC Referenced"). There's your proof. |
That's still not proof, and so saying it is wholly un-encyclopaedic. NC comics is supposed to be the originator of sprite-comics and the influence of every other sprite comic on the web, yet it still remains a relatively small, unpopular webpage. If it was truly monumentally influential, it would be frequently cited as a major influence for many producers of web comics, but it is not. Even if it was the first, it doesn't mean it had any effect on the web-comic community, other people could of formulated the idea of sprite-comics long after NC did without even knowing about it. It has had relatively little impact for supposedly innovating and inspiring an entire genre.
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| Wikipedia needs to give NC the respect it deserves. |
Whether it deserves respect is entirely up to interpretation.
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| Deleting the article would be an insult to Sean, myself, and just about a crapload of others who helped to create it. And that would piss me off. |
Wikipedia are not concerned with how much effort you pumped into the article. From what I read of it, it was very poorly worded anyway and entirely un-encyclopaedic. But that is not the concern. Do not expect Wikipedia to put up an article simply because alot of effort went into it's creation, they are concerned with whether it deserves to be included in a compendium of human knowledge, and an obscure sprite comic on a relatively unpopular website making unsubstantiated claims doesn't deserve to be in any encyclopaedia, even one as shaky as Wikipedia.
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| BM and Raven guy: If you were to publish a paper and put it on the internet, a bunch of people used it as a source of info, you gained a following, and you wanted to reference that paper somewhere on Wikipedia, and the deletionists said it was created by some nobody and wanted to delete it, how would it make you feel? |
If I wrote an in-depth article about my cat with half a dozen included pictures and oodles of information, submitted it to Wikipedia and found it deleted, I wouldn't be surprised.