[WikiEN-l] April Fool's Day proposal

[Sherool]

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 02:54:38 +0100, NSLE (Wikipedia)  
<nsle.wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Allow political userboxen? *runs*
> --NSLE
>
> On 3/7/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 3/6/06, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Done by google.

We could re-format the Main Page to list all information in userbox  
format, and declare that due to popular demand all articles should  
henseforth be made up of a series of userboxes instead of all that  
tiresome text... Although that whole issue might be too touchy to toy with  
even on April 1.

On more serious note I'd just like to ask people to *please* limit  
themselves to free licensed images when doing the compulsary photoshopped  
Jimbo images and what not (or at least have them all deleted the next  
day). There are enough copyvio images to clean out on a regular wikiday as  
it is without ending up with long fights over "parody" fair use claims for  
months or even years afterwards, like  
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wiki-gonzales.jpg> from last year.  
Sure it's fun, but it gives people the wrong idea about fair use on  
Wikipedia if we start keeping a lot of these patody pictures around in  
project space.

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[[User:Sherool]]