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2) Wikipedia is still an encyclopedia, isn't it?
Surely you can have
an encyclopedia without an article on Brian Peppers in it. Many other
encyclopedias get by without such an article.
Nice straw man. Let's make that a new CSD while we're at it - "This
article not covered in other encyclopedias."
3) Anyone can still edit Wikipedia, can't they?
Not regarding Brian Peppers, apparently.
What really worries me is the bad precedent this sets. The (very condensed)
facts are:
1) This article survived its last AfD. Some people voted delete, but
it survived.
2) A short time later, a phony email was sent to wikipedia by someone
*claiming* to be a relative of Brian Pepper. The article was immediately
deleted. It was later shown that this almost undoubtedly was not sent
by a relative, but by someone sending fake notes to Wikipedia and to
other sites.
3) DR, AFD, mailing list arguments, wheel warring, and finally a deus
ex machina ends with the article, for all practical purposes, being
even more deleted than at the end of step 2.
I know there is a lot of middle stuff in part 3, and the arguments expanded
well beyond the legal worries raised in 2 (although quite a few people
calling for deletion continued to cite them), but it is really disheartening
to to note that, in effect, a prankster just succeeded in having an article
removed from Wikipedia.
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