[WikiEN-l] April Fool's Day proposal

[Guettarda]

On 3/6/06, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/6/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 3/7/06, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Not any slur against you, but I consider this basically lame. Being
> > > willing to post News of the Weird is not the same thing as Not Taking
> > > Ourselves Too Seriously.
> > >
> > > Being willing to act like Uncyclopedia for 24 out of 8765 hours of the
> year is.
> >
> > Kind of have to agree there. If major newspapers allow themselves to
> > print non-factual stories on that day, I think we can forgive
> > ourselves as well. Can we fudge up a hoax, new information on the flat
> > earth theory, etc etc?
>
> Probably not: but what we can do is announce some spurious change to
> Wikipedia policy or governance.
>
> What would REALLY mess with people's heads would be announcing some
> dramatic change in policy like the abolishment of Articles For
> Deletion on April 1, and then sticking with it.


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