[WikiEN-l] Interesting BLP article...

[Daniel R. Tobias]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Packer

This seems to be of a guy who's notable for getting himself 
repeatedly interviewed in news coverage of various things as a non-
notable "man on the street".

In addition to the Wikipedia-internal issues of whether somebody like 
that should have an article, this raises the point that, in the "real 
world" as well as on Wikipedia forums, appearances of public 
sentiment, opinion, consensus, and so on can be deceiving, as the 
people (even when they seem like "just ordinary folks") who are seen 
or heard expressing their views on something (on the TV news or on a 
Wikipedia talk page or mailing list) are a self-selected bunch who 
want to be heard, or want attention, or have other motives that set 
them apart from the "masses".

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