Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Viajero viajero@quilombo.nl wrote:
Although I realize this isn't the proper channel for doing so, I'd like to nominate the following for Featured Article this coming Friday:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bishonen/European_toilet_paper_holder
That is not a featured article. In fact it is not even an article - it is a hoax. It will be removed as would any other sneaky vandalism masquerading as valid content.
In the interests of adding to instruction creep :-), we ought to have some ground rules for April Fool's, maybe make a contest out of it, for instance the winner is the hoax that goes the longest without being detected. For instance:
* New articles only, we continue to be humorless about edits to existing articles. * Article must be created on 1 April, between 00:00 and 23:59 UTC. * Detection is by the addition of a special template by an editor, who must also add on the talk page the evidence that the article is a hoax. * The winner is the one with the longest time between creation and detection. * Undetected hoaxes must be marked by their creator by the end of April 2; they are also counted as winners. * Winners get moved to WP: namespace, have " (April Fool 2005)" added to the title (in case of inadvertant links from elsewhere), all internal links removed, and are added to a list of winners linked to from BJAODN or some such. * Losers are deleted sometime on April 2.
The rules page can be on meta somewhere, linked from a couple relevant places. It works to have it be advertised; more of a challenge to include references etc that can fool a thousand editors already on the outlook for fiction that day.
Stan