[WikiEN-l] I just had a REALLY BAD IDEA

Sun Sep 19 17:40:36 UTC 2004

It's really, really bad. Everyone's going to hate it.

1) Take the fact that people create vanity pages and prank pages about 
their friends. Often when they come up in VfD they will even say "Sure, 
remove it, I just wanted my friend to see it."

2) Add a dash of the International Star Registry and a soupçon of 
Google sponsored links, and you have my really bad idea.

*** Put your friend in the encyclopedia for a week! For just $X.00! ***

Make your PayPal or credit card donation here, then email to this 
address (that of a responsible sysop), giving your friend's name and 
whatever you want the article to say, as long as it's decent and not 
insulting. Feel free to submit as Wikimarkup if you happen to know it.  
If your is unacceptable for any reason, your money will be promptly but 
grumpily refunded. Otherwise, within three business days, your friend 
will have a handsome article about them in Wikipedia, complete with a 
garish and un-missable banner that explains that this is a Paid 
Article, that the information in it is not to be trusted, and that it 
will be removed by thus-and-such-a-date.

But wait, there's more! Act today, and you can also attach a .jpg image 
of up to 240x320 pixels in size! NOW how much would you pay?

But email today! Sysops are standing by!

Yes, I know. I'm ashamed of myself for even thinking about it.

--
Daniel P. B. Smith, dpbsmith at verizon.net
"Elinor Goulding Smith's Great Big Messy Book" is now back in print!
Sample chapter at http://world.std.com/~dpbsmith/messy.html
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[WikiEN-l] I just had a *REALLY BAD IDEA*

[WikiEN-l] I just had a REALLY BAD IDEA