On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 08:28:51 -0500, you wrote:
I agree, especially because the article didn't
show the image, nor did it
provide much in the way of information about Brian *the person* (only
Brian
the meme).
Part of the problem is that it *did* / did not / did / did not / did
/did not contain the image, details of the man not the meme, details
of the meme spreading after Snopes identified him as a sufferer from a
congenital deformity and YTMND put up a page detailing the fact that
he is disabled and lives in a nursing home. We had every extreme from
those who apparently wanted to perpetuate the YTMND fad to those who
didn't want the article at all, and there was no possibility of
agreeing on a neutral version, and not much chance of enforcing it
even then.
Sit back, calm down and wait to see if he's still remembered in a
year's time seems a perfectly reasonable approach for an
*encyclopaedia* to take here. But of course I was for not having the
article in the first place.
Don't worry, I'm already calm. Whatever my beliefs about Mr. Peppers, I
simply don't feel strongly enough to really care about it all that much.