[WikiEN-l] BLP and this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Frosties_Kid

[michael west]

The premise of the article was that an commercial advertisment on
television became a meme (internet little mikey story), although
essentially  through a BBC radio station. The article was SPd and went
mad, then went through Afd (NC) was blocked from editing for 3 weeks
and then the advert ended. During the time various UK taboild
newspapers had discovered the identity of the boy (along with a
respected broadsheet South African newspaper). The article lasted 8
weeks before I named the boy. (although another picture was added at a
later stage).

My own thoughts on the subject ran:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Frosties_Kid#What_is_this_article_about.3F

"His existence and 50,000 internet blogs wanting the poor kid dead is
just too much for Wikipedia. The advert is ephemeral and fluttered its
last public airing on TV 6 weeks ago. Ephemera has a place, but a biog
of a kid who looks like a future star of the South African Olympic
team, shouldn't leave him with a moniker of being the Frosties Kid, 15
year old boys don't need that notoriety (or for that matter deserve a
biog)."

I think the same views are mirrored in the current WP:BLP (although
maybe not the ephemera bit).

Is it actually bad for wikipedians to use wikipedia a source and
declaim unfounded blog and radio station stories? A bridge too far?
Michael