On 2008.01.13 10:25:17 -0500, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com scribbled 0.7K characters:
Adrian wrote:
Eugene van der Pijll schrieb:
"This isn't a humor page, and [that image] makes us look foolish."
But we do have several funny images even in policy pages. Why the fuzz over the stupid cat image?
Because, as David suggested earlier, based on "the deep inconse- quentiality of the change... the page in question will be a reliable detector of people who will fight to the death over trivia and so should not be let near anything actually important for any reason." At first I thought that a little harsh, but after reading through the bitter but stupefyingly pointless argumentation that's now at [[Wikipedia talk:Requests for rollback/Vote/Archive 1#Vandalism?]], I'm starting to see the wisdom...
You're looking too hard. It's very simple:
'I are serious cat. This is serious thread.'; or http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:I_IZ_SERIUS_ADMNIM_THIZ_IZ_SERIUS_BIZNIS_lolcat.jpg.
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