[Wikinews-l] Date-specific vandalism

James Hare messedrocker at gmail.com
Wed Jan 3 19:56:44 UTC 2007


While I am a big fan of in-jokes for April Fool's Day, they should stay off
articles and official Wikipedia-related documentation.

On 1/3/07, Nicholas Moreau <nicholasmoreau at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think there should be a policy immediately adopted for all language
> Wikipedias, against non-legitimate articles on any day of the year,
> including so called "April Fools Days". While I'm not against humour, they
> stand to serve no purpose to the project.
>
> This is in regards to hoax news stories on the Catalan and Spanish
> Wikinewses.
>
> Nick
>
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