On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:34:47 -0400, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
How many articles do we have on people known only for their deformities? The only one I can think of is Joseph Merrick.
I have no idea how many. I also don't think it's accurate to say that Peppers is known *only* for his deformities. There are plenty of people more deformed than Peppers, after all.
Really? So what else is he famous for? Apart from people laughing at his deformities? The extent of them is not relevant to this question, obviously.
Ahem - that's *attempted* gross sexual imposition (which specifically excludes actual sexual contact). The man is by all accounts disabled and his address is a nursing home.
Snopes says "registered due to a conviction for Gross Sexual Imposition in Lucas County, Ohio, in 1998". It doesn't say "attempted". Maybe Snopes is wrong. And maybe if Wikipedia had an article on Peppers it would be easier to find out if Snopes is wrong.
The conviction record does say attempted. This illustrates quite powerfully the entire problem with an article on Peppers: there is so little to go on that without original research there is virtually nothing that can be said. We don't even have contemporaneous news reports.
Guy (JzG)