[WikiEN-l] Friday's featured article

Thu Mar 31 05:37:49 UTC 2005

Deathphoenix wrote:

> Geoffrey Burling wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Seth Ilys wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 05:02:33 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer
>>> <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Again, I have not seen a single example of a respected encyclopedia 
>>>> doing this.
>>>> Give me one example and I'll stop complaining.
>>>
>>> There are several examples of this in [[nihilartikel]].
>>
>> Sheesh, if there is so much resistence over [[European toilet 
>> paper]], how about if we were to nominate a real topic, like 
>> [[Wankers Corner, Oregon]] for Friday's FAC?
>>
>> Unless none of you trust my word that it actually exists?
>
> Or perhaps [[exploding whale]]. There are plenty of articles we could 
> use. The problem is, with an article like that posted on April Fool's, 
> we run the risk of people actually believing that the article is a 
> fake, when in fact, it's not. 

Sounds like some kind of reverse April Fools.  Something perfectly true 
that nobody in his right mind would believe. I like that idea.

Ec