--- Tony Sidaway <minorityreport(a)bluebottle.com>
wrote:
Daniel Mayer said:
--- Tony Sidaway
<minorityreport(a)bluebottle.com>
wrote:
> 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.
You are the one that said this was a tradition. I
called you on that.
Clearly you misunderstood me. April Fools is a
longstanding tradition.
The fact that "respected encyclopedias" do not have
the opportunity to
indulge in it is neither here nor there.
[...]
Britannica is online. Does their online version
indulge in foolishness?
That is not an
article. If I find it or any other
hoax in the article
namespace, then I'll delete it on sight
(might
move it to BJAODN).
Then the joke is on you. Lighten up.
Fooling our readers is not "lightening up", it's
perpetrating a hoax on them.
RickK
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