I am trying to think if there is a line here for me, and I'm not sure there is.
I wouldn't do a sign-up that was all super-obscure requests, but there's no harm in nominating to see who bites, if you have the slots. I have seriously considered nominating a furry/fantasy series that someone in my local area self-published in the early 1990s and sold at flea markets and community events for awhile. It isn't *that* obscure since I'm still slowly picking up missing volumes at local used book sales, one every five years or so!
I once nominated a newspaper comic from the 1930s that had only ever been partially reprinted in big anthologies of comics history, and was only online via like, scanned microfilm newspaper archives, and it got offers & another request.
If it was obscure enough that there was 0 English-language evidence for it on the Internet I would do a comprehensive evidence post. (But that self-pub series has a listing at the largest local used bookstore's website so it definitely exists.)
Re: Canons you'd never nominate because you know no other fans would sign up
I wouldn't do a sign-up that was all super-obscure requests, but there's no harm in nominating to see who bites, if you have the slots. I have seriously considered nominating a furry/fantasy series that someone in my local area self-published in the early 1990s and sold at flea markets and community events for awhile. It isn't *that* obscure since I'm still slowly picking up missing volumes at local used book sales, one every five years or so!
I once nominated a newspaper comic from the 1930s that had only ever been partially reprinted in big anthologies of comics history, and was only online via like, scanned microfilm newspaper archives, and it got offers & another request.
If it was obscure enough that there was 0 English-language evidence for it on the Internet I would do a comprehensive evidence post. (But that self-pub series has a listing at the largest local used bookstore's website so it definitely exists.)