[WikiEN-l] Re: Friday's featured article

Wed Mar 30 15:38:12 UTC 2005

--- Tony Sidaway <minorityreport at bluebottle.com> wrote:
> You're being unreasonable by demanding that a tradition cannot apply to
> Wikipedia unless it also applies to "respected encyclopedias."
> There are no encyclopedias like Wikipedia.  Britannica and Encarta don't
> change from one day to the next.

You are the one that said this was a tradition. I called you on that.

> Nonsense. The European toilet paper holder article proposed is a
> transparent hoax and quite harmless.  That Wikipedia cannot ever be more
> reliable than its latest edit is intuitively understood by all readers, so
> let's not foster the false impression that the situation is otherwise.

That is not an article. If I find it or any other hoax in the article
namespace, then I'll delete it on sight (might move it to BJAODN). 

-- mav

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