I talked a good friend of mine, illustrator and fine artist Jon Arvizu, into letting me put his bio and some samples of his work on Wikipedia. He forwarded me a modest bio, which I placed up on the site.

Within minutes it seems, the page was flagged for deletion for the following reason:

It is proposed that this article be deleted, because of the following concern:

Does not meet WP:BIO, no sources - only 49 Google results.

What?! Only 49 Google results?! That’s their reason?!

I find it a little troubleing that a serious artist with a real bio gets flagged for deletion, yet Bridget the Midget, with a few sentences that appear to be written by a fan with a 4th grade education, seems to have firmly secured it’s place in the online encyclopedia.

To her credit though, “Bridget the Midget” does return 172,000 results on Google.

I wonder what Jon would think about doing a series of midget pinups?