On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:36:34 -0400, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
Original research. we don't know (either way) because there are no reliable sources.
Actually, the person who claimed to be the guy's brother and started that rumor about the nurse admitted it was a hoax. I sent you the link earlier today.
You're missing the point. We don't know either way, there are no reliable sources. we don't have a court transcript, a report from the paper, a statement, nothing.
The point is, this has so little neutral coverage that we almost certainly won't know. If we ever get a contemporaneous news report which details what happened and to whom then we might arguably have enough to go on, but honestly there is nothing here on which to base a biography.
As I've said, I disagree. I think there are enough neutral sources to have a short article, maybe two paragraphs long, which would be far better than having nothing.
We disagree here in two fundamental respects.
First, I don't think that there are any sources neutral enough, given that virtually every source we do have is related to the "who's a pepper?" thing. There are no reports unrelated to that, other than the primary sources (eSORN etc.) and they are monumentally uninformative.
Second, I think that having a short article ''is'' worse than having no article, because we have no idea what else the guy has done with his life. Maybe he spent his entire childhood rescuing drowning kittens. We oimply have no idea. All we know about him is he pleaded guilty to an attempted felony, and he looks "kinda weird". We can reasonably infer that he is disabled, but even that is probably original research. We really know next to nothing about the guy, so we have no way of presenting a neutral biography.
If someone writing a book on memes goes out and researches properly and comes back with some actual substance maybe I'd change my mind, but right now I think that these two facts - conviction and appearance - do not, between them, constitute sufficient material for a WP:BLP.
Guy (JzG)