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

Wed Mar 30 20:42:06 UTC 2005

--- Tony Sidaway <minorityreport at bluebottle.com>
wrote:
> Daniel Mayer said:
> > --- 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.
> 
> Clearly you misunderstood me.  April Fools is a
> longstanding tradition.
> The fact that "respected encyclopedias" do not have
> the opportunity to
> indulge in it is neither here nor there.
> [...]

Britannica is online.  Does their online version
indulge in foolishness?

> > 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).
> >
> 
> Then the joke is on you.  Lighten up.

Fooling our readers is not "lightening up", it's
perpetrating a hoax on them.

RickK

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