Travis Mason-Bushman wrote:
On 2/22/06 2:26 AM, "Phil Boswell" phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
But don't you see that what you have written there is the essence of what the article **should** say? It should be expanded a bit, but you've summarised it nicely.
A compromise was proposed that I - and a few others - could have lived with
- a protected redirect to a short paragraph on [[Internet phenomenon]] or
[[List of YTMND fads]], which simply states he was some guy who got convicted of a minor sex crime and had his picture turned into an Internet meme.
No, that was not good enough for the article's proponents - we had to have his complete life story (such as it is) and picture for all to see. The proposal was rejected.
So, now we have nothing for a year.
I opposed redirecting to "YTMND fads" since the article listed Fark and Something Awful as other places the photo was being used extensively as well, which meant it wasn't just a YTMND fad and so redirection there when linking to [[Brian Peppers]] would be misleading. Provided it's true that Peppers has been used elsewhere, I still stand by that - nothing has changed, it'd still be misleading to redirect there.
But there's no reason why we can't _also_ have paragraphs at those two other places you mention, especially given that an independent article is apparently out at the moment. It just means we can't have a {{main|Brian Peppers}} at the start of them.