On 2/16/06, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
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.
He didn't like the iMac, eh?
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.
Hmm. We're agreed to not publishing certain salacious details of famous people on [[WP:LIVING]]. Perhaps we should avoid publishing anything personal about "famous despite themselves" people - so the Peppers article could be simply about the internet phenomenon, with almost nothing (if anything) on the poor chap himself. Unless of course he actually does anything notable, like sue someone.
Steve