[Wikinews-l] Date-specific vandalism

[Benjamin Massey]

Nicholas Moreau wrote:
> I think there should be a policy immediately adopted for all language 
> Wikipedias, against non-legitimate articles on any day of the year, 
> including so called "April Fools Days". While I'm not against humour, 
> they stand to serve no purpose to the project.
>
> This is in regards to hoax news stories on the Catalan and Spanish 
> Wikinewses.
>
> Nick
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"Date-specific vandalism"? Bit of an inflammatory term, don't you agree?

At any rate, plenty of well-respected journalistic and news authorities 
aren't above celebrating April Fool's Day. I don't see why we should 
hold Wikinews to different standards.