Talk:Celebrity achievement

• Needs work - I wouldn't want to support it until there is a clear definition of celebrity. -- relet 15:56, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
• Needs work for the same reason - missing useful definition. Tendency to oppose because earlier discussions on IRC showed that it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to find a satisfying definition. --Ekorren 20:25, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
• Needs work about the definition of a celebrity. DNO if we are able to nail down the definition, see comments below. --aperfectring 23:45, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
• Needs work - I see two flaws that would need addressing; one, the aforementioned definition of a celebrity; and two, location, certain cities and areas are known for the celebrities that live or work there (Hollywood, for example), so geohashers in those areas would have a distinct advantage towards claiming this achievement. -- turbomagnus 10:28, 4 February 2011 (EST)
• Oppose - it's a cute gratuitous ribbon, but I agree that defining it and proving it would be too difficult, and the odds are quite slim anyhow. -Haberdasher 18:06, 11 April 2012 (EDT)
• Oppose. Works better as a gratuitous ribbon than as an achievement. --KerrMcF (talk) 22:55, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Elaborate comments

• After claiming the gratuitous ribbon for my particular case, that provided the inspiration for proposing an actual achievement for it. My claiming it was deliberately tongue-in-cheek, because it was a guy in a stuffed animal suit (not unlike meeting a guy in a Mickey Mouse suit); I'll change it to Radio Yerevan or something if the achievement gets approved. The achievement obviously needs a lot of work, though, in order to come up with a good and objective definition (I do hope people make an effort to do so before rejecting it on that basis!) Yerushalmi 08:37, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

• It is all great and good to meet someone who is a "celebrity", but how would we provide proof? I personally don't like to interrupt people's day-to-day for my own stupid stuff. You would have to ask the celebrity for a picture or autograph, in order to be able to provide the proof. Chances are, if you are headed to a hashpoint, you aren't also going to someplace which would have a celebrity providing photo ops or signatures, so I would see this as an intrusion on the celebrity's privacy. Yes, they probably get it all the time, but that doesn't mean that I am going to do it, or that I would encourage others to do so. If you are on the way to a hashpoint where a celebrity is providing photo ops or signatures, then I would say count yourself lucky and take the gratuitous ribbon. --aperfectring 23:51, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

• Proof: The geohasher should get the celebrity to sign the printed geohash coordinates/map/notes for the day. Celebrity: What would the problem with requiring a wikipedia page be? There are other achievments (e.g. "named by other than geohashers or those influenced by geohashers" on A Tale of Two Hashes) where there are restrictions on the topic of the ribbon. So the wikipedia page should not be initiated by the geohashers and the geohashers should not be associated with the celebrity. It'd be quite unfair if you work for one. --DavidSchmitt 2009-11-25

• It'd be awkward for me. I'm a minor figure in the transgender rights movement, there's a wiki page about me. Anniepoo 2011-09-20