Talk:Jack Hoffman

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A fact from Jack Hoffman appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 June 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that seven-year-old brain cancer patient Jack Hoffman (pictured) scored a touchdown for Nebraska and subsequently met with President Barack Obama?

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Well how about deleting it? Sadly the kid is just one of thousands who get cancer every year. Is wikipedia just a repository now for every sob story? Last month a kid with cancer took a penalty at my local match is that worth a mention? Wikipedia is demonstrably not an "encyclopaedia". Which parts of this article are even remotely scholarly or academic? If anything this story should be used as just another example of Missing white girl syndrome where the media jump all over a middle class white kid while ignoring the unfortunate thousands of similar cases from other less affluent backgrounds.

There is absolutely nothing in this article that makes this child patient any more deserving than other children in this predicament. In fact I thought this site shied away from such things. The child is notable for one thing WP:WI1E - a touchdown (how about the penalty goal I saw scored?) which then makes it dubious under the rules of WP:MEMORIAL.

I am sorry about this - as I have nothing but admiration for this brave little boy (but I know of at least six equally brave and lovely children who didn't deserve to get cancer, autoimmune diseases or suffered organ failures and are awaiting a donor) it's to do with what Wikipedia is trying to be.

And articles like this one on the front page are not the way to go. It's just recentism.81.129.205.22 (talk) 23:09, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]