Talk:Edsel Ford Fong

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An entry from Edsel Ford Fong appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on September 17, 2007.

[edit] Local references

I placed the qualifier "by locals" at the end of the lede, since all of the references in this article are from San Francisco area media. Wong is unlikely to be written about, let alone called the "world's rudest waiter" in other areas of the world. If there were national or international gastronomy publications that described Wong, I'd feel differently, but as it is, I feel we should comment on it in the lede. Thoughts? Cmprince 21:06, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

The source simply say that he is known for being the world's rudest waiter and don't limit the scope of their comments to his being locally famous. In fact, he was internationally known even if he is a local phenomenon. The people promoting that designation - Herb Caen, Armistead Maupin (and via him the BBC), and guidebook and travelogue writers - were read and repeated worldwide. We could do a survey of sources and find the ones that are or are not local, which would be WP:OR. What would be most accurate is that he was promoted to the world by the restaurant and by widely read authors as the world's worst waiter, an idea that caught on. I don't think it's really worth it to get that detailed in the introductory sentence about the nature of his fame. Better to simply say that his tag / nickname was "world's worst waiter" and leave it to the body of the article to say what that is all about. Wikidemo 23:04, 17 September 2007 (UTC)