On 29/06/07, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On 6/29/07, michael west <michawest(a)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.