[WikiEN-l] Earth Deletion Discussion

[Brian]

So far each april fools thread I've seen has had at least one buzzkiller in
it.

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:34 AM, 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.)
>
>
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