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_%...
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