Daniel Mayer said:
--- Tony Sidaway <minorityreport(a)bluebottle.com>
wrote:
April fools jokes are traditional.
And what evidence do you have that respected encyclopedias have done
this? I see no tradition there but please prove me wrong.
You're being unreasonable by demanding that a tradition cannot apply to
Wikipedia unless it also applies to "respected encyclopedias."
There are no encyclopedias like Wikipedia. Britannica and Encarta don't
change from one day to the next.
Given the
controversial nature of our reliability, this stunt will likely harm us
more than it is worth.
Nonsense. The European toilet paper holder article proposed is a
transparent hoax and quite harmless. That Wikipedia cannot ever be more
reliable than its latest edit is intuitively understood by all readers, so
let's not foster the false impression that the situation is otherwise.