On Apr 3, 2005 12:28 AM, Mark Pellegrini <mapellegrini(a)comcast.net> wrote:
To all those people who said we should let our hair
down, that April
Fools wouldn't really be
so bad (it was), that it wouldn't encourage vandalism wasn't too much
(it did), that people
would do be restrained about it (they weren't), that it would be over by
mid-day (it wasn't),
and that people wouldn't revert war over something so lame (they did), I
just thought I'd mention
that the arbcom recieved a request today from someone blocked for
excessively reverting
[[2005 Britannica takeover of Wikimedia]] (yes, the hoax article)
So thank you very much, to all those of you who pushed this idiotic
idea, from those of us
who actually have to pick up the pieces.
-- Disgruntled
To clarify I put in the request arbitration and I carried out the
block. The problem is not directly related to april the first
(although it is a contributing factor) but to silly articles in
general.
--
geni