I really hope I'm being had by an early April's Fool's joke. If so, I tip my hat to JzG.
On 3/25/07, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
As Rich notes, this thread has its own ironic value, just in time for the one-year anniversary of the first successful BJAODNFD...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Bad_Jokes_and_O...
SJ
On 3/25/07, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sorry, but this is the most annoying and depressing thing that Wikipedians have done. It's certainly predictable, of course.
BJAODN serves an important purpose for the encyclopedia and the community.
If you can't appreciate it, ignore it.
Please, I beg of you.
Stop this.
Please.
On 3/23/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
Kingboyk and I thought the time had come to prune the 'pedia of the sixty pages of often acutely unfunny vandalism preserved under the general heading of BJAODN. Not remove BJAODN, a collection of genuinely if often unintentionally funny edits, but the 59 subsequent archives. The mechanism we employed was to MfD the current one, because it did not seem worthwhile tagging nearly sixty articles if there was clear consensus to keep. That didn't work: a lot of people think we want to delete all BJAODN (we don't, just prune it down to a rational size); some people want it kept outright as "harmless" or whatever; some say they won't advocate deletion of one, only if the whole lot is bundled. It's a mess. We'd like to know what, of anything, is the best way forward. We are both still of the opinion that keeping copies of many hundreds of decisively atrocious edits, the majority of which do not rise above the level of childish, is probably not worth the server resources committed to it. Plus, the insane mountain of crap makes it hard to sot the genuinely creative and funny ones, which was the point. I also feel that some editors deliberately introduce nonsense in the hope of making BJAODN, but that's an aside.
The debate is at [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Close Encounters of the Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense Kind]] if anyone wants to pitch in there, but there may be a better place to discuss this.
Guy (JzG)
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JzG
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