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Fred
On Feb 15, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Guy Chapman wrote:
This is the latest in the on-again, off-again history
of Brian
Peppers on
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/
Brian_Peppers_%286th_nomination%29
Peppers is a fad on YTMND and Fark, for reasons which are obvious
from this
link:
http://pepperstruth.ytmnd.com/
The problem is, he is notable *solely* because a number of people
on the net
have chosen to laugh at his freakish appearance, apparently the
result of a
congential deformity.
No, even that's not the problem, the *real* problem is that a lot
of people
are determined that we should have an article on him, but the
sources for
the fact that he is disabled, lives in a n ursing home, poses no
threat to
the community and appears only to be on the offenders' register as
a result
of an inappropriate contact with a nurse/carer, is from a source
which is
less reliable than Snopes (
http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/
peppers.asp).
So it seems unavoidable that we will participate in the memtic
process,
because we can't say what a lot of us want to say (that Peppers is a
disabled man, suffers from a congenital deformity, was convicted of a
technical offence and is known almost exclusively because his
photograph
became an In ternet freak-sho exhibit).
People insist on the article, clamour for the picture, and revert
edits
which emphasise Peppers' status as a big-time loser in the lottery
of life -
possibly because I can't write these edits in a way whihc
adequately coneals
my absolute contempt for those who exploit Peppers' picture ad an
object of
derision.
Should I just forget it? Or ar we (either me or those who want the
article
restored) missing some vital point of policy?
Guy
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