On 10/4/05, Ryan Norton <wxprojects(a)comcast.net> wrote: I have. It's a ridiculous amount of work and the VICIOUS STUPIDITY AND BLATANT IGNORING OF THE ACTUAL DAMN DELETION POLICY DOES NOT STOP. Trying to hold back the waves of poisonous stupidity at VFD is a quick route to burnout. AFD sill needs a dynamite enema. - d.

On 10/4/05, Ryan Norton <wxprojects(a)comcast.net> wrote: See the current RFC on the subject, or indeed read this list over the last few days. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Snowspinner_2 - d.

On 10/4/05, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote: We could call them HITLER!!!!11! - d.

David Gerard wrote: That guy was imprisoned in the 1920s and that gave him the free time to write his literary masterpiec. Let's be thankful that there was no Wikipedia at that time, or he might have used it to write a version of the AFD rules with a clarity that rivals that of the present rules. :-) Ec

On 10/4/05, Sean Barrett <sean(a)epoptic.org> wrote: Pleaze hitler was the guy who felt that a street thug (horst wessel) was worthy of his own song. As a result we have anb article on this otherwise nn street thug. -- geni

Is this the first wikien-l thread to get godwinized without outside help?

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Tony Sidaway wrote: I can think of numerous lesss entertaining ways that Hitler could be mentioned in a thread. And if this thread was Godwinized, then who lost? The Encyclopedists or the Contributors? Geoff

On 10/4/05, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote: I know, I know: how about the Capulets and Montagues? Crips and the Bloods? Yeah! Or the Sharks and the Jets. Then there could be a tender story of children of the warring Associations thrown together by fate and passion, tossed on the winds of information, tenderly editing each others articles, realizing the narrow creed they followed was nothing when it came to verifying AND including their love for another, each one spouting verse on the others talk page in the middle of the night, being bold, breaking the 3RR together, only to be cut down and burned out in a brutal flamewar ending only in tragedy as one takes the poison of AfD and the other falls on his own WP:POINT in a message to all, and eyes are opened by this tragedy, leading to a historic agreement as Jimbo Wales eulogizes over their young but lifeless accounts, complete with tender homilies about community and vision and how he C0ntr0lz Teh Un1v3rs3. Or not. smws (Wikipedia:Kiaparowits)