On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Durova <nadezhda.dur...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is of course true too. People don't think video game composers deserve > to have articles; so they argue for non-notability. > > Whether this should be the case is another story. I consider this to be > an abuse of the rules. > > ---- > That's an example of a fairly common human prejudice against new creative > genres. Novels were held in light esteem while Henry Fielding and Jane > Austen were writing them--light entertainment for adolescent girls. It > wasn't really until Thackeray that the genre became respectable reading for > serious adults. When motion pictures were new they were mostly regarded as > light entertainment for working class audiences. Partly as a result, nearly > 90% of the films from the silent era weren't curated and have been lost > forever. > Of course 90% of every genre is crap and the Pac-Man theme will probably > torment me for the next three hours. But Austen was nearly forgotten for > fifty years after her death--I wonder what critics of the next generation > will say about the theme music from Morrowind.
Interesting comparison with historical antecedants! This is more the sort of level of debate I'd like to see at AfD. I wonder what a closing admin would make of it... :-) Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l