The project is SERIOUS BUSINESS.
Seriously, if anyone is reading Wiki(blank) on April 1 and actually believes that George W. Bush was the frontman of Poison for six weeks, then falling for an April Fools' joke is probably the least of their worries.
Regards,
Craig Franklin PO Box 764 Ashgrove, Q, 4060 Australia http://www.halo-17.net - Australia's Favourite Source of Indie Music, Art, and Culture.
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I think there should be a policy immediately adopted for all language Wikipedias, against non-legitimate articles on any day of the year, including so called "April Fools Days". While I'm not against humour, they stand to serve no purpose to the project.
This is in regards to hoax news stories on the Catalan and Spanish Wikinewses.
Nick
Yeah, people take Wikipedia very seriously, even though it *is* an encyclopedia written by everyone.
On 1/4/07, Craig Franklin craig@halo-17.net wrote:
The project is SERIOUS BUSINESS.
Seriously, if anyone is reading Wiki(blank) on April 1 and actually believes that George W. Bush was the frontman of Poison for six weeks, then falling for an April Fools' joke is probably the least of their worries.
Regards,
Craig Franklin PO Box 764 Ashgrove, Q, 4060 Australia http://www.halo-17.net - Australia's Favourite Source of Indie Music, Art, and Culture.
Message: 3 Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 14:50:39 -0500 From: "Nicholas Moreau" nicholasmoreau@gmail.com Subject: [Wikinews-l] Date-specific vandalism To: "Wikinews mailing list" wikinews-l@wikimedia.org Message-ID: 2540ad290701031150ue79e166u43b260783e62caa7@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
I think there should be a policy immediately adopted for all language Wikipedias, against non-legitimate articles on any day of the year, including so called "April Fools Days". While I'm not against humour,
they
stand to serve no purpose to the project.
This is in regards to hoax news stories on the Catalan and Spanish Wikinewses.
Nick
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