[WikiEN-l] Featured churn

[Carcharoth]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Gwern Branwen<gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Carcharoth<carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jaranda/Wikipedia%27s_first_IRC_chat
>>
>> Took me long enough to find it! And it wasn't what I thought it was.
>> No deletionism or inclusionism jokes there.
>
> Maybe you were thinking of the sinister Deletionist Cabal in
> _Wikipedia The Movie_?
> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/User:Raul654/Wikipedia_the_Movie#Scene_9_-_Meeting_of_the_Deletionists.27_Cabal

No, but that was funny, especially the comment from number 7. Thank you!

It was good that there was a spoof of the LotR movies in the next scene:

"There may come a day when the strength of wikipedia fails, but it is
not this day! A day when wiki becomes piki, and Pikmin conquer
wikipedia, but it is not this day! This day we fight! Remember what
you are fighting for: the random article, the wikiprojects, the
featured content, and the use of square brackets everywhere!"

At least I think it was a spoof of Aragorn's speech at the Black Gate
in the third LotR movie. That was itself probably a homage to
something else, so it might be a spoof of that hypothetical original.

Carcharoth

PS. OMG, I just scrolled up to the top and saw the movie poster of Jimbo!