On 2 Jan 2005, at 23:24, Stewart Pederson wrote:
I'm going to work in getting pictures of the Yopu statue and form a separate site about the on going research.
Good luck. No, I don't mean this to sound derisively cynical. I'm serious. If your "Yopu research" becomes sufficiently well-known, oft-linked, referenced and cited (be it for reasons of factual relevance or "Internet phenomenon"-quirkiness), then we'll be happy to once again start having an article about it. No, that's NOT a license to munge together some pop-up adorned freely hosted site and come back and shout "HEY! THERE'S EVIDENCE! IT'S ON TEH INTARWEB!" But if you can achieve clear notability AND that's objectively demonstrable, then your Yopu stuff might indeed find its way back here again.
A word of warning though: Achieving the requisite notability may prove harder than you expect. And -- if I could quote the [[Gay Nigger Association of America]] as an example -- even if you DO achieve a fair degree of notability, like it or not, but here too many folks are definitely LESS inclined to keep articles by or about subjects/people they find ANNOYING as opposed to subjects/people that they are SYMPATHETIC to. This may lead to a less than totally objective assessment of notability, which probably is less than totally ideal. But there's little merit in raging against that because we're only human and we all suffer from the same flaws that just come with the human condition.
In between time, the Yopu article will remain filed on the circular shelf; the one that starts with a "D" and ends with "USTBIN". As you may have learned "the hard way", Wikipedia's main premise, namely that there are more well-meaning people in the world than intentional wrongdoers, once again can be returned with a [[quod erat demonstrandum]]. Trolls for example may think that it's quite easy to waste our time, but they frequently find that for every minute THEY invest, there are about a hundred Wikipedians who feel they can spare a minute or two in the interest of our cause and community.
-- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]] www.ropersonline.com