Nicholas Moreau 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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"Date-specific vandalism"? Bit of an inflammatory term, don't you
agree?
At any rate, plenty of well-respected journalistic and news authorities
aren't above celebrating April Fool's Day. I don't see why we should
hold Wikinews to different standards.