On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee(a)rahul.net> wrote:
Generally, I'm not a fan of this sort of joke.
They give the impression of
"we get to break the rules when we want to, as long as it's funny.
Meanwhile, everyone else has to follow them."
(And WP:COI really does seem to say it's a conflict of interest for an
article about the Earth to be made by Earthlings. It's easy to invoke IAR
and say that that's not what it's supposed to mean, but it's not all that
different from other examples that we're supposed to take seriously as being
COI.)
Oh, lighten up! People are just having a little fun, no one takes it
seriously, and no one is "breaking the rules". People are just having
a laugh! It's a small bit of satire at the culture at AfD, and an
opportunity for people to make Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (our
spiritual ancestor) jokes.
--Oskar