On 7/14/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Lord Voldemort wrote:
On 7/14/06, Rob gamaliel8@gmail.com wrote:
Nada. Ran a general search and then one on Ohio papers specifically. Also ran a search in NewsBank's America's Newspaper's database, which I find more useful than Lexis/Nexis for searching smaller regional newspapers. Nothing there either.
Kind of what I was figuring. There have been plenty of mentions of other memes in the traditional media, yet none on Peppers. Seems odd.
Actually, that's untrue. There was at least one story in a Toledo paper.
How are we expexted to write an article on a subject that doesn't have corroboration in something other than internet sources? I mean, I know the name Gary Brolsma from offline sources. I know I have seen stuff on the Star Wars Kid and that German yelling kid offline as well. It's hard to believe something "this famous" would have no mention in newspapers, etc. I don't know. The WP:WEB guideline and WP:MEME (proposed) don't really give much help either. --LV
So, since there's no source that isn't "and I read it on the internets", we can't have an article on him, because it's not verifiable.
There are plenty of good verifiable sources for Brian Peppers. The article listed many of them, before it was deleted.
An online source is not necessarily a bad source.
Anthony