From: wikien-l-bounces(a)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)