[WikiEN-l] The Onion article on Wikipedia

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 7/26/06, Garion96 <garion96 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Saw this on the administrators' noticeboard.
>>
>> http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50902
> 
> Good example of why I can't stand the Onion. Fact and fiction (or
> satire, if you prefer) totally mixed together, with no way of knowing
> which is which.  Some of the satire is well targeted, like the crack
> about LCD's influence on the drafting of the US constitution (we do
> have that kind of problem), but some is nonsense, like the Chuck
> Norris mention or the misspelling in "American Inderpendance". The
> article could make some telling points about vandalism, and other
> points about inaccuracies or hoaxes, but instead mixes them together
> as if they were the same thing.
> 
> Why isn't there any good satire?
> 

You're not looking in the right place.

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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