[Foundation-l] "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe" English Wikipedia's featured article today

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2012/2/7 HaeB <haebwiki at gmail.com>

> 2012/2/7 Svip <svippy at gmail.com>:
> > On 7 February 2012 04:49, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#Bad_choice_of_featured_article
> >> is pretty good reading.
> >
> > The complaints usually sums as 'hey, great work on that article,
> > unfortunately, I am a bit uncomfortable with subject at hand, so let's
> > best not celebrate your contributions'.
>
> Actually, the English Wikipedia's Featured Article Director


What is that?


> has stated
> himself


Why are not that decissions taken under community consensus?


> that some articles will not be featured on the main page
> (although he prefers to keep that list short and it currently consists
> only of the article "Jenna Jameson"):
>
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Raul654/archive25#Wikipedia:NOTCENSORED_and_the_Main_Page
>
>
I read here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us that
"Wikipedia has no editorial board". Why is there a person deciding what
can't be shown in the main page?


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