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

Wed Mar 30 15:51:39 UTC 2005

Richard Holton said:
>
> When I first saw the article, as a result of Viajero's original post, I
> was not thinking about April Fool's. I *glanced* at the article, and
> saw what appeared to be a very detailed, well-documented article about
> a very obscure subject -- just the sort of thing we want Wikipedia to
> have. Had I known someone with an interest in this arcane topic, I
> might have pointed them to the page, or printed a copy and handed it to
> them. Would they have immediately known this to be an April Fool's
> joke? On reading it, they would conclude that it was not a serious
> article, but would they know it was intentionally included in
> Wikipedia as a joke for all to see? Or would they assume that some
> knucklehead had added the article and no one had yet discovered it to
> remove it?

If you care to read the article in question you'll see that it's a pretty
blatant joke article.  It wouldn't be a joke if it wasn't superficially
serious with absolutely ludicrous innards.