On 2/22/06, Keith Old keithold@gmail.com wrote:
If he did, well done to him. There is no legitimate reason for an article on Mr Peppers other than people on a couple of websites chose to make fun of his appearance. In the latest AfD, one voter said words to effect of we're just making fun of his appearance. Surely, Wikipedia should have higher purposes than mocking the disabled which his article has generally tended to be.
The article has not tended to do that.
In general, we need to pay much more attention to people's privacy than we have. As one of the world's most popular Internet sites, articles on people generally tend to be high up on the first page of a Google search. If people do a Google search for a potential employee or date, our articles come up fairly quickly. If we have an article alleging criminal or other antisocial behavior, we need to ensure that the case is well-known and highly verifiable through reliable sources.
[[Brian Peppers]] forfilled both of those depending on your defintion of well know.
We therefore need to ensure that if we have articles on people for a negative reason, our policies on verifiability and reliable sources are applied vigorously. As well, our editorial red pencils should be vigilant about negative claims about individuals and if they don't have a reliable source/s or don't comply with NPOV, they should be taken out.
Um yeah that is kinda what was going on with [[Brain Peppers]]. -- geni