--- 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.
-- mav
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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.
-- mav
A good, nice hoax however. It was notable enough to be mentioned on Wikipedia signpost here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2005-02-14/Article... - though I still support it to appear as the Front Page featured article on April Fools ;-)
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.
We have a plurality of interested parties (including many long-standing users who care deeply about the project) saying that that sort of hoax is appropriate for Friday, but Raul and Mav very belligrently (vis "veto" , "sneaky vandalism") opposing.
At the moment it looks like Raul's and Mav's concerns have been addressed on the FAC talk page but they do not accept the response. We would do well to sort this out one way or the other before Friday... what if someone on the other side decides to get as threatening as mav and Raul and get into a revert war on the issue... now that ''would'' be lame.
Pete
In response to a suggestion I made on [[Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates]], another user added a link to [[Nihilartikel]] at the bottom of the article, so there is at least one explict clue for the observant if otherwise naïve reader.
V.
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
Stan Shebs wrote:
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,
Delightful! Let's start now. With your rules verbatim. :-D
Tom
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
All those takeing part will then be banned indefinetly under the dissruption rule (and for doing it on the worng day sometimes timezones have thier good points).