Bryan Derksen wrote:
I don't have any particular investment in the
article (I think I voted
in an AfD on it), but what you just wrote here seems to me to be similar
to saying "there is no legitimate reason for an article on Mr. Peppers
other than the legitimate reason there's an article on him." It may not
be _nice_ to make fun of someone based on their appearance, but if it's
happening enough it becomes a valid subject for an article IMO. As
someone else pointed out there's an article on Ghyslain Raza as another
example of fame through mockery making a person notable.
Yes to all that. But there's a bit of a curious circularity now that
we've become very very big and very very powerful. *If* something has
become notable enough *outside wikipedia* then yes, we can and should
have an article about it. But we should be very extreme in our caution
that a Wikipedia entry not be used to *drive* the very notability upon
which the entry is supposed to *depend*.
--
#######################################################################
# Office: 1-727-231-0101 | Free Culture and Free Knowledge #
#
http://www.wikipedia.org | Building a free world #
#######################################################################