[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's destiny

[BJörn Lindqvist]

> > Whether someone wants an article or not does and should not have any
> > relevant whatsoever.  [[en:Star Wars kid]], another internet fad,
> > doesn't want an article either, but there you have one.  Brian Peppers
> > is a less well-known internet fad, but still certainly at the level
> > where he would warrant inclusion in any more than cursary treatment of
> > the subject.
>
> Just on the notability thing, I wonder if BP will really stack up well
> on the "ten years from now" test. Sure, he's interesting *now*, but in
> 2016?

2016 it will be interesting that Brian Pepper was interesting ten
years earlier.

> On the treatment of deformities as WP articles, see [[Joseph
> Merrick]]. There's someone who didn't seem to achieve anything notable
> that wasn't directly related to his deformity.

Mhm? See [[John Siegenthaler]]. There's someone who didn't seem to
achieve anything notable that wasn't directly related to the Kennedy
assassination.

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mvh Björn