67:, and their votes are discounted. I ask that you realize that Knowledge (XXG) is an online community, just like the webcomics community, and we have our own rules and ways of doing things--and if you want to contribute, you'll probably need to learn a bit about them. We're not judging your favorite webcomic, it's just that we generally include only the most notable websites and are trying to be consistent. To learn more of what I think about the issue, please read below.
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are too loose right now, and so are not taken seriously by the majority of
Knowledge (XXG) editors. The only one that asks that a comic have significant readership, rather than simply existing for a long time, unfortunately relies on Alexa, which everyone hates. The criteria need to be rewritten
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the place for the comprehensive cataloguing of almost anything: not music, not people, not blogs, and yes, not webcomics. Generally editors look for "notability," that is whether an article ought to be included in an encyclopedia because it is distinctive in some way. A webcomic might be notable
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