--- Viajero viajero@quilombo.nl wrote:

So now his eminent worthiness Mark a.k.a. Raul has decreed that [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] will be the Featured Article tomorrow, despite the overwhelming support for UTPH at [[Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_candidates#European_toilet_paper_holder]].

ETPH is not an article - let alone featured. That "article" can and should be on the alternate Main Page at [[Wikipedia:April 1, 2005]]. A huge banner on the real Main Page could point to the alternate Main Page.

It seems to me a spectacularly lame and unimaginative choice. If running a genuinely ersatz text was too daring, at least we could have run an oddball article that looked like a hoax, but I guess even that was too much for the timid souls at the steering wheel.

Sadly [[exploding whale]] was already on the Main Page. As was Emperor Norton of the United States. Either Main Page summary could have been written with a bit more wit to work. I wouldn't mind if we recycled one or the other for just this day though.

I am disappointed by the process by which this decision was reached and I especially disappointed by the outcome, but I guess it reflects the fact that Wikipedia EN is overpopulated by geeky teenagers who probably prefer Red Bull to red wine and Game Boys to sex.

I for one prefer sex above all those other things you mentioned. :)

-- mav

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