It's too late
They deleted it 2 days ago. It's too late now. What matters is that you tried.
Reviews for "Fred the Notable Monkey"
JKR responds:
Oh, I'm not out to get Fred into Wikipedia. I merely want to let people know that there are other ways of telling folks they are non-notable than the heartless methods they use at Wiki. So if I can do that, and perhaps make people stop and think about it for a moment, that's good enough for me. Heck, I've never been about more than making people happy with the cartoon I do, so as long as someone is enjoying them that itself is good enough for me. =)
Thanks for taking the time to write a review!
Nice animation, but...
Wikipedia is controlled by the people who visit it, not the owners of the site. If all the people visiting the site looking for real, academic information think an entry about a website is useless, it will be deleted.
You're already ON THE INTERNET, just make you're own "About This Site" page on your website. Why would anyone look you up in Wikipedia anyway? They can find all the info they need by just watching some of your animations...
JKR responds:
See, I don't care if I'm in Wikipedia or not. What I am against is the way they go about telling people they are "useless". With a little more care, they could easily inform people to "keep working" instead of saying "You fail" when some of these people never even asked to be judged.
I have no problem with Fred the Monkey being deleted from Wikipedia. Only the method the people took to do it.
Thanks for leaving a review.
Not BAD but get over it.
It's not the end of the world. Nice Cartoon though.
JKR responds:
I agree, it certainly is not the end of the world. In fact, I do not care at all if Fred the Monkey is in Wikipedia or not. But I do care about artists being turned away and told they don't have what it takes by people who are in no real position to judge them when they did not even asked to be judged. Too many people give up dreams because others tell them they aren't worth it.
At any rate, thanks for the review, and I'm glad you enjoyed the cartoon. =)
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I understand many artist will be devestaged....
but that is why you have newgrounds .com....
If people want to have their work really evaluated...they have to go to the rightful sites which have members who actually do that.
like newgrounds .com.....
Wikipedia is just a "true or false" boolean based site...its either your in, or your out. To get more detail to why your "true" or "false"....
go to places like newgrounds .com
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Ya....the irony....
of Newgrounds .com
JKR responds:
I understand what you mean and agree completely. If someone wants more detail on their work, they SHOULD submit it to places like Newgrounds.
However, the big difference is I personally did not submit Fred the Monkey to Wikipedia. I was only informed someone did. Now, I don't care, but if someone who did went and saw those things about their work, when they did not want to yet be judged, I would imagine they'd be quite unhappy. And they personally did not ask for it to be judged. Perhaps they were still working. I just think it would take very little more time to be a bit more compassionate about deleting entries from the site.
Anyway, thanks for writing a review, and I'm glad you liked the cartoon.
Note to Wikipedia admin below
The main reason I go on the Wiki is because it has articles on more things than a regular encyclopedia. Regular encyclopedias take up physical space, which is why they cannot contain too many things (that, and because they don't have as many writers working for them). However, what the hell would be the problem with having a gajillion wikipedia articles? It's not like they take up any physical space. People will only find them if they SEARCH for them, and I actually LIKE seeing that there's a Wikipedia article on some obscure thing that I didn't think anyone else knew about. The problem with deciding that only things that you deem worthy will be in wikipedia begs the question: who decides what is worthy? And why does it matter, since the people who don't search for it will never see it anyway?
But anyway, on to my review of the flash:
Nice character design, nice colour scheme, and fairly good animation (a bit too static, but I understand that you're trying to save time). The monkey's voice could've been worse, but it was still far too high-pitched for my liking. Nice idea overall, although you could've taken it a bit further I think.
JKR responds:
Thanks for the review! I agree with you in that I think it is not hurting anyone to have more obscure things also in Wikipedia. Perhaps a system could be set up where the most popular items are held within a certain place so they are quick to access, but the less popular things might take a bit longer to load. That way you wouldn't be affecting the people who get searched out more often. Just a thought.
Anyway, glad you liked the cartoon okay. Yes, doing one a week all by myself (voices, animation, everything) does put a limit on what I can do without not sleeping and going crazy. =)
I hope you enjoy the next Fred cartoon more, and I'll try and add even more animation to it.