If Thomas Ball fails to meet your standards of notability then how come this List of Popotan characters made the cut?  There is nothing notable about whatever Popotan is supposed to be aside from spawning that stupid carameldansen meme, and that doesn't even "cite" (for lack of a better word) Popotan.  Don't tell me the content of that article is more notable than a real person who publically immolated himself in a first-world country.  208.106.104.40