Guy Chapman wrote:
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.
I think it would be a very bad precedent to start deleting (or avoiding creating) articles on people who are semi-famous against their wishes, or even exclusively as the result of mean-spirited internet denizens. The most well-known of such unfortunate victims of internet derision is the [[en:Star Wars kid]], who even went so far as to sue the people who leaked the now-famous but previously private video onto the internet. I don't think that means we ought to delete his article, though.
Mr. Peppers appears to be less well known than the Star Wars kid, of course, but having a Snopes entry seems to rise to the level of being semi-notable IMO.
We *do* have to be careful not to allow Wikipedia to be used as a place to start new fads, or propagate very weak/minor ones, but I'm wary of taking an ideological stance that we will refuse henceforth to write articles on people who would prefer to be less known than they are.
-Mark