--- Viajero <viajero(a)quilombo.nl> wrote:
So now his eminent worthiness Mark a.k.a. Raul has
decreed that
[[Nintendo Entertainment System]] will be the Featured Article tomorrow,
despite the overwhelming support for UTPH at
[[Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_candidates#European_toilet_paper_holder]].
ETPH is not an article - let alone featured. That "article" can and should be
on the alternate Main Page at [[Wikipedia:April 1, 2005]]. A huge banner on the
real Main Page could point to the alternate Main Page.
It seems to me a spectacularly lame and
unimaginative choice. If
running a genuinely ersatz text was too daring, at least we could have
run an oddball article that looked like a hoax, but I guess even that
was too much for the timid souls at the steering wheel.
Sadly [[exploding whale]] was already on the Main Page. As was Emperor Norton
of the United States. Either Main Page summary could have been written with a
bit more wit to work. I wouldn't mind if we recycled one or the other for just
this day though.
I am disappointed by the process by which this
decision was reached and
I especially disappointed by the outcome, but I guess it reflects the
fact that Wikipedia EN is overpopulated by geeky teenagers who probably
prefer Red Bull to red wine and Game Boys to sex.
I for one prefer sex above all those other things you mentioned. :)
-- mav
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