[WikiEN-l] Earth Deletion Discussion

[Oskar Sigvardsson]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> Generally, I'm not a fan of this sort of joke.  They give the impression of
> "we get to break the rules when we want to, as long as it's funny.
> Meanwhile, everyone else has to follow them."
>
> (And WP:COI really does seem to say it's a conflict of interest for an
> article about the Earth to be made by Earthlings.  It's easy to invoke IAR
> and say that that's not what it's supposed to mean, but it's not all that
> different from other examples that we're supposed to take seriously as being
> COI.)

Oh, lighten up! People are just having a little fun, no one takes it
seriously, and no one is "breaking the rules". People are just having
a laugh! It's a small bit of satire at the culture at AfD, and an
opportunity for people to make Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (our
spiritual ancestor) jokes.

--Oskar