On 2/21/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/22/06, Keith Old keithold@gmail.com wrote:
If he did, well done to him. There is no legitimate reason for an
article on
Mr Peppers other than people on a couple of websites chose to make fun
of
his appearance. In the latest AfD, one voter said words to effect of
we're
just making fun of his appearance. Surely, Wikipedia should have higher purposes than mocking the disabled which his article has generally
tended to
be.
The article has not tended to do that.
In general, we need to pay much more attention to people's privacy than
we
have. As one of the world's most popular Internet sites, articles on
people
generally tend to be high up on the first page of a Google search. If
people
do a Google search for a potential employee or date, our articles come
up
fairly quickly. If we have an article alleging criminal or other
antisocial
behavior, we need to ensure that the case is well-known and highly verifiable through reliable sources.
[[Brian Peppers]] forfilled both of those depending on your defintion of well know.
We therefore need to ensure that if we have articles on people for a negative reason, our policies on verifiability and reliable sources are applied vigorously. As well, our editorial red pencils should be
vigilant
about negative claims about individuals and if they don't have a
reliable
source/s or don't comply with NPOV, they should be taken out.
Um yeah that is kinda what was going on with [[Brain Peppers]].
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I hold the opinion that any article on this man is not going to be NPOV, since the only reason he is popular is because Peppers is unfortuantely stricken with a condition that makes him look funny. Our editorial standards should be such that we don't have to stoop to have an article designed to inflicy more problems on the article subject.
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