[Foundation-l] "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" English Wikipedia's featured article today

[Thomas Dalton]

On Feb 7, 2012 1:50 PM, "emijrp" <emijrp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why are not that decissions taken under community consensus?
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> > that some articles will not be featured on the main page
> > (although he prefers to keep that list short and it currently consists
> > only of the article "Jenna Jameson"):
> >
> >
> >
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Raul654/archive25#Wikipedia:NOTCENSORED_and_the_Main_Page
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> I read here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us that
> "Wikipedia has no editorial board". Why is there a person deciding what
> can't be shown in the main page?

He's been doing it for years and has never screwed up badly enough for the
community to take the job away from him. It's as simple as that. The
Wikipedia community can be uncharacteristically pragmatic at times!