From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Delirium Sent: Friday, 24 February 2006 20:23 To: English Wikipedia Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's destiny
Peter Mackay wrote:
Did you look at any of them? Note in my quote I said "not
very many
people have commented about you", which empirically appears to be true: Almost all of those hits are either for other people named
Stan Shebs,
or to posts written by our Stan Shebs himself (e.g. on
Wikipedia or on
mailing lists).
And how many of the tens of thousands of Google hits for
"Brian Peppers"
have you personally checked?
I checked the first 50 or so results of both, and spot-checked later pages.
Thanks.
Oh, and here's an in-print reference to Brian Peppers as a noteworthy internet fad:
Lichman, John. "'Teh interweb' -- It offers more than porn." _Washington Square News_. February 3, 2006. (Also available online at http://www.nyunews.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/02/03/43e31129220d1)
Nobody is disputing that there are lots of references on the net. That's not the point. In fact, at the moment, the article is a redirect to [[Internet phenomenon]] of which BP has been removed by User:UninvitedCompany as "not notable". I think he's probably worth a brief mention there, but not as a standalone article.
Do you see why an article is inappropriate?
Peter (Skyring)