On 29/06/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 6/29/07, michael west michawest@gmail.com wrote:
Why were people searching for Brian Peppers? How had they heard about
him?
when they search were do they hit first?
I have no idea why people were searching for Brian Peppers, other than that they apparently wanted to find out more information about him, and I highly doubt a decent study has been done to determine more exactly why people were searching for him and how they had heard about him. Anecdotally, I heard about him through the deletion discussion. I believe Snopes is currently the top hit for a search. It probably used to be Wikipedia.
Not sure why any of this matters, though.
Well it all goes back to what Wikipedia is. Wikipedia isn't snopes. Snopes has done a great job since newsgroups/bbs. Does wikipedia want to be like snopes?
Next week we'll get a guy that felates his pet monkey on the japanese railway system "Monkey Blower", it got 100,110 hits first week it went on YouTube, will we cover it? Probably yes until the guy gets arrested and his name comes out. We'll revert to earlier pages, a GFDL pic of him felating his monkey and some geo about the train system in tokyo and maybe a reference to it arousing intrigue (but not arousing the monkey)
There are innocent memes that self publicize. I dont think that Brian Peppers was. His only claim to 15 minutes was that he looked very ugly, he was ridiculed like a carnival attraction. The guy did not have a column in a single newspaper never mind 10. He was an attraction of gouls and bloggists. If I ofended you with my words you can see much worse descriptions.