Brian Peppers is a pitiful person we should not be making fun of
(using our "power"). There is no legal problem, but not the point.
Harry Reid will likely be Majority leader of the Senate. I have not
followed any controversy regarding his article, but some attention
needs to be paid to the quality of the article.
Fred
On Feb 21, 2006, at 8:08 PM, Delirium wrote:
Joshua Griisser wrote:
I'm almost speechless with rage at
Jimbo's unilateral deletion of
the encyclopedia article [[Brian Peppers]] - not to mention his
locking (via [[User:Danny]] and [[WP:OFFICE]]) of [[Harry Reid]]
for *five days*.
I'm very confused by this one. I wrote a one-sentence, factual,
verifiable, referenced stub reading something like the following (from
memory):
---
'''Brian Peppers''' is the subject of an [[internet fad]] due to
his
unusual appearance in a police [[mug shot]] photograph.
==References==
* [[Urban Legends Reference Pages]] (
snopes.com).
[
http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/peppers.asp "Who's a Pepper?"].
Accessed February 17, 2006.
---
I fail to see how this could possibly be legally problematic. What's
more, deleting it from the encyclopedia reduces our coverage of
internet
culture, which is currently an active area of academic research.
There are some books on internet fads currently in press, scheduled to
appear within the next year. If one of them mentions Brian Peppers,
will we still prohibit an article in Wikipedia about it?
I can see arguments against using Wikipedia to *create* fads, but that
is clearly not the case here. Are we going to delete [[Star Wars
kid]]
if his family complains, too? After all, he too is famous against his
own will, and in that case the famous video was even leaked onto the
internet illegally (while in Brian Peppers case the famous photograph
was officially posted by the State of Ohio on its website in
accordance
with state law).
-Mark
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