[Foundation-l] Semi-protection on April Fools

[Michael Snow]

Erik Moeller wrote:

>The problem
>is mostly with users who will insert nonsense into articles as a joke,
>but have no idea (and will not care enough) to remove it later. I'm
>also quite sure that many people will find things funny which we would
>normally consider to be cases of aggressive vandalism. People have
>very different senses of humor. For some, April 1 is the one day of
>the year where they feel they have an obligation to do something
>funny, while they really aren't. Funny. At all.
>  
>
Part of the reason they're not funny is that most of the time, they're 
also not very original. As Wikipedia has now been through a few April 
Fool's Days, I've seen quite a variety of jokes, pranks, and hoaxes, and 
I'm sure those with more experience and longer memories know of even 
more. I would be hard-pressed to come up with something truly original 
and funny, but if someone could I'd enjoy it and have no objection. 
Perhaps simply declaring off-limits the stuff that's been done already 
would go a long ways toward cutting down on unfunny April Fools.

--Michael Snow