User talk:Fecker4

Non-noteworthy people at Berkeley
Just so you know - I doubt that you are ever going to be able to keep this list posted on the University of California, Berkeley page. I have been a graduate student at Berkeley for 5 years now and I have never heard of these people, despite the fact that I am on campus all the time.

I am assuming that you are just listing the random crazy people who yell about things near Sproul Hall and Sather Gate etc. You have to understand that crazy people are a phenomenon at almost all universities to some extent because a few students will actually stop and listen, thus giving them the attention they desire. The fact that you want to add these people to the article shows that you personally find these types of people fascinating - and that's okay - but I personally don't know of anyone who knows these people by name (or who stops to listen to them for that matter).

One article in the Daily Californian or the Berkeley Daily Planet is also not enough to claim "notability". There are full professors, widely published etc. at Berkeley who do not have their own Wikipedia entries, and yet their work impacts and influences people around the world - two professors I can think of off-hand are Anne Middleton Wagner and Thomas Laqueur. Both of these professors are brilliant scholars who have changed the face of their respective fields (art history and history) in profound ways. To think that someone like a local "Carrot Top" who caught your attention while on your way to class is notable enough to include in an article about a 140-year-old esteemed intitution is just wrong. I hope you can understand why this is the case.  S a u d a d e 7  17:20, 1 December 2007 (UTC)