Fri 2 Nov 2007
In Town Called Dobson, I have been referring to Dennis Kucinich as Ultra K but Ultra may be too small a word for Dennis.
On October 23rd, Dennis Kucinich announced he would introduce to the House of Representatives on a point of personal privilege a resolution of impeachment against Dick Cheney sometime before Thanksgiving.
BALLS – Total balls.
Why aren’t the rest of the Dem candidates screaming about impeachment? For that matter, why isn’t Peolsi?
Impeachment is not an unpopular view. Take Vermont for example…
Earlier this year, town meetings across Vermont asked citizens if impeachment proceedings should be initiated against the president and vice president. Thirty-seven towns voted yes, and the Senate approved a resolution calling for impeachment.
Now a statewide poll conducted by CBS affiliate WCAX in Burlington, Vt. posed the question to 400 likely voters. Sixty-one percent said they would be in favor of Congress beginning impeachment proceedings against President Bush. Thirty-three percent opposed it, and 6% were not sure.
The numbers for Vice President Cheney differed only slightly: Sixty-four percent favored impeachment, while 31% opposed it.
Seventy-five percent of respondents said they categorized the president’s performance as “fair” or “poor.”
For me personally, I would also want to see the Administration before the Hague, have all the appointed judges removed from the bench and Gore installed as the rightful President for 8 years.
But for now, I will need to live vicariously though Dennis’ testicles.
SPECIAL NOTE: Wikipedia To Delete Town Called Dobson Entry.
Wikipedia is far from perfect. Last year I stopped donating to Wikipedia due to their notability policy. Other than being vague, it allows “admins” to delete entries at will and usually without cause, justification or accountability. When the community votes to keep an article, admins have in the past EDITED the voting to reflect their personal wishes. No joke.
Last week, without warning, Town Called Dobson was selected for “rapis deletion” for the reason of non-notability. Even though, TCD has appeared in print, won awards, has over 300,000 hits in Google and has over 100,000 readers a day via its front page status on many leading blogs, it has been classified as non-notable.
The best way to rectify this is write an article about TCD or political webcomics in general and mention TCD. Then go and add that link to the Reference section of the TCD article. If the editing system of Wikipedia is too daunting (it is a steep learning curve) send me the link and I will have the guy that maintains the entry to post it.
If you are a newspaper reporter or editor, slip in an article about TCD! (long shot I know, but I am not above begging.)
If you have used TCD graphics for use in a protest or campaign, please blog about the event and post it. TCD licensed under the creative commons agreement, so that is legal.
Lastly, I want to thank all of my readers. You folks have meant a lot to me over the last 3+ years.
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November 2nd, 2007 at 11:38 am
Ultra K may need to be evolved/upgraded to Super-Mega-Ultra K Zeta!
Not only are his balls huge, but they are made of cast pure kickassium (it’s kinda like Adamantium, but harder, denser and hurts more when hit by it).
The fact that TCD is facing delition due to “lack of notibility” AND the actions that admins have stated in the past is nothing new with Wikipedia…nor is it anything new with webcomics in general.
I would like to direct you to Schlock Mercenary (a web comic that has been running daily for 7 years!): http://www.schlockmercenary.com/
The writer/artist Howard Tayler has been having issues with Wikipedia for some time, and has even slammed Wikinews and Wikipedia hard for this recent activity. He has encouraged all of his readers to NOT donate money to Wikipedia or any part of it for that matter. If I recall correctly, he has an open invitation for others to jump on this bandwagon.
Howard’s blog on the matter can be found here: http://www.schlockmercenary.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/30/wikiwatch-how-did-that-picture-get-there/
A promised investigation about all of this can be found here: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Story_preparation/Wikipedia_versus_the_WebComics:_Define_notability
And a Wikinews entry on the matter can found here: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Comments:Wikimedia_fundraiser_highlights_webcomic_community%27s_frustration_with_Wikipedia_guidelines
It should be noted that Howard is not concered about web comics, he is concerned about this in general.
I hope this information helps you Storm Bear.
November 2nd, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Dennis seems to get it that Cheney needs to go before Bush, albeit years ago. The Vermont results seem confused (what else is new?) as to voters understanding tactical government. Of course, public hangings, or summary execution as domestic enemies within the meaning of the 2nd Amendment, are easily justified to save the Hague tribunal the nuisance. The major problem in Congress is that the majority there have perpetrated rightfully impeachable acts themselves, and so may be reticent to open that door, from either side of the aisle.
As to Wikipedia, it appears the editors didn’t spend much time looking. Note at the bottom a Copyright justification demand. It might help to note that while the strip does contain “all rights reserved” language catering to some print editors, it actually carries Creative Commons licensing detailed on its web site, and bears that symbol in the print version. That might by extension be done in a way to mention notability in multiple media and the challenges faced by artists and authors publishing via various direct, commercial, and noncommercial avenues and technologies simultaneously.
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:23 pm
One way to increase notability of comix is voting them high in the polls, linked on the right center of this page. This month TCD has hit the top 2% in TWC, and top 5% in Buzz. 20 more people a day bothering to hit those two links and “vote” would hold TCD up in the top 100 strips in each of those promotional sites. That in turn promotes “out” links for new readers to notice the strip.
Of course, Stormbear could add incentives or bonuses for those who vote, as extra strips or other special features.
Top Web Comics allows voting once per day per IP address for as many comix there as one likes, and resets “midnight” based on Mountain time (2 am Eastern, 11 pm Pacific).
Buzz is a bit strange in locking out entire “C blocks” of IP addresses per vote (IOW, if one neighbor has a.b.c.25 for an IP, another with a.b.c.211 cannot vote later the same day there, except for additional/different comix). They take fewer votes for a strong showing, and also allow voting for multiple strips per day from the same IP block. They run on Pacific time, or reset at 3 am Eastern.
Each of those polls resets each month, and so votes early in the month (like now) that push up rankings are more valuable than late in the month, for those who have limited time to contribute to such promotions of favorites.
November 2nd, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Sorry about Wickapedia thing,Man……..whatta bunch of shithead snobs……I am way too compooter unsavvy to know how to help you with this…..unless it’s laid out in very — – simple – - – lingo…………..keep up the good work. ps. I ordered my Imprison Bush/Cheney bumper sticker today to put on my beater that I drive all over from Rockford to Lowgap on a daily basis….also some special stickers to put on this motherfucker’s jeep with a hugh “Give War A Chance ” message plastered on his front window in Andy Land.
November 5th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Anime, thanks for the update on the Wiki crap. It seems that a bunch of comics are in the same boat.
November 5th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
No problem and my pleasure Stormbear.
I hope this Wikipedia thing pans out better than it has historically done. The upshot is, is that there are more people aware of this, and more that are not tolerating it.
Who knows, perhaps change for the better is on the horizon for the internet AND the real world.