The "official" Boxxy thread, because it's a rotten mess, and best kept off other threads Options

[EricBarbour]

I'm putting in a new thread, just to try to keep discussion out of
unrelated threads. Actually i"m surprised this was only mentioned today,
it's one of the biggest and foulest stinks in internet history.

Original WR mention here.

Article (rather crummy) here, AfD here.

I've disagreed vehemently with deletionists in the past,
but this is one time that I'm forced to agree with them.

That poor foolish girl is a victim of 4chan troll idiocy, which has blown completely out of proportion.
Now she's the focus of endless death threats, stalking, you name it.

She is underage, was not seeking widespread publicity in the usual sense, does not deserve such treatment,
and is not otherwise notable enough to deserve a WP article.
There are thousands of similar personal videos on YouTube, by other non-notable teens.

At most, it should be folded into this list.

The berserk crap surrounding Boxxy is BAD and should be discouraged.

Perhaps a good official policy for persons deserving creation of a BLP would be:
someone who obviously seeks publicity, does not use pseudonyms, and
is over the age of 18. Just saying.

(A note to the BLP inclusionist bastards: you are hypocrites. If you want to post
the real identity of Boxxy online for all to read, then it's time for YOU to post
your personal details online, as well.)


(crap...how does one edit a thread title?)

This post has been edited by EricBarbour: Thu 29th January 2009, 10:03pm

[GlassBeadGame]

Wikipedia simply cannot help itself here. Remember, Wikipedia is not the metropolis it pretends to be but really just a village of 2,000-3,000 people with serious problems of over-involvement, making thousands, tens of thousands of even a hundred thousand edits each. Of these a certain number, in itself worthy of further discussion and more precise definition, but certainly at least several hundred strong are people obsessed with internet culture. Veterans of Usenet, ED, 4chan, and god knows where else these luz-heads come from but they certainly are there (and here). They include people with some degree of a life and some years under their belts (like Alison) to people who either have none (like Grawp) to people that have lost it (like Blissy). They cannot possibly stay away from coverage of internet memes and other self-referential topics no matter how unencyclopedic or how corrosive to any serious hope for an online learning community. They are too important a constituency in "the community" not not be given what they just have to have.