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Writer of Penny and Aggie, Fans (also called Faans), Rip & Teri, Search Engine Funnies and A History of Webcomics. Experienced webcomics editor, currently seeking full-time work and working on strange and interesting new things...Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Wikiplosion.
Lotta talk in webcomics right now about Jack Thomspon and a Wikipedia editor named Hahnchen. The former is a walking punchline whose power base is rapidly diminishing. His over-the-top arguments against video games read like a remake of Frederic Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent. Compare the two-- and then remember how much damage Wertham did to the comic book industry and how little Jack seems to be doing to anyone. Sometimes we really do learn things in fifty years!
Hahnchen is trickier. He feels the webcomics coverage on Wikipedia has become bloated and has made it his mission to clean it up. I give him some badly needed PR advice here. I don't know if he'll take it, but at least I can say I *tried* to restrain myself. I know he's doing what he feels is right, and unlike Jack, he's not actually CRAZY. His arguments against keeping the entry for The Jaded, a weekly on Graphic Smash that's currently on hiatus, do have some merit except when he clings to Alexa. (I really wish Alexa would just hurry up and die already; it stopped being reliable years ago.)
But I can't help but feel this is the beginning of the end for Wikipedia. Hahnchen is part of a new breed of editors who are applying this ethic to many different topics. And he admits he's not a "webcomics expert." Wikipedia editors have always been under-informed about the subjects they cover, and not that H. didn't do some hasty research. But when editors SUBTRACT information while admitting overall ignorance, it starts to look less like editing and more like... book-burning.
Or comic-book burning, like the kind Wertham inspired?
Sometimes we really don't learn things in fifty years.
Hahnchen is trickier. He feels the webcomics coverage on Wikipedia has become bloated and has made it his mission to clean it up. I give him some badly needed PR advice here. I don't know if he'll take it, but at least I can say I *tried* to restrain myself. I know he's doing what he feels is right, and unlike Jack, he's not actually CRAZY. His arguments against keeping the entry for The Jaded, a weekly on Graphic Smash that's currently on hiatus, do have some merit except when he clings to Alexa. (I really wish Alexa would just hurry up and die already; it stopped being reliable years ago.)
But I can't help but feel this is the beginning of the end for Wikipedia. Hahnchen is part of a new breed of editors who are applying this ethic to many different topics. And he admits he's not a "webcomics expert." Wikipedia editors have always been under-informed about the subjects they cover, and not that H. didn't do some hasty research. But when editors SUBTRACT information while admitting overall ignorance, it starts to look less like editing and more like... book-burning.
Or comic-book burning, like the kind Wertham inspired?
Sometimes we really don't learn things in fifty years.
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Another reason to be glad of the Comixpedia Webcomic Encyclopedia. (BTW, this entry's double-posted.)
I have also had a major problem with this Hanchen, as well.
It seems that this dick not only defaced a Wikipedia page belonging to a certain webcomicer that I happen to know mercilecly, but when I called it to the forefront, he felt it neccessary to go through and convice the Wiki Team to "speedy delete" other unrelated pages, centering around the Fonts created by this person I know.
This page was merely linked to the webcomic, as he runs both a webcomic, and is a notable font designer who has had more top-rated fonts to his name on "dafont.com" than anyone else there.
Yet becuase of his childish grudge, he followed the links and deleted all traces of the webcomic artist/font designer from Wikipedia.
Hanchen is a rampaging dickhole, and i've made note of the troubles i've had with him and his past vandalising before.
This is the kind of typical garbage however, that the incredibly amaturish and nearly worthless Wikipedia breeds, however, so I am not surprised.
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It seems that this dick not only defaced a Wikipedia page belonging to a certain webcomicer that I happen to know mercilecly, but when I called it to the forefront, he felt it neccessary to go through and convice the Wiki Team to "speedy delete" other unrelated pages, centering around the Fonts created by this person I know.
This page was merely linked to the webcomic, as he runs both a webcomic, and is a notable font designer who has had more top-rated fonts to his name on "dafont.com" than anyone else there.
Yet becuase of his childish grudge, he followed the links and deleted all traces of the webcomic artist/font designer from Wikipedia.
Hanchen is a rampaging dickhole, and i've made note of the troubles i've had with him and his past vandalising before.
This is the kind of typical garbage however, that the incredibly amaturish and nearly worthless Wikipedia breeds, however, so I am not surprised.
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