[WikiEN-l] 4/1 FA: Nintendo Entertainment System :(

Thu Mar 31 12:59:33 UTC 2005

--- Viajero <viajero at quilombo.nl> wrote:
> So now his eminent worthiness Mark a.k.a. Raul has decreed that 
> [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] will be the Featured Article tomorrow, 
> despite the overwhelming support for UTPH at 
> [[Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_candidates#European_toilet_paper_holder]]. 

ETPH is not an article  - let alone featured. That "article" can and should be
on the alternate Main Page at [[Wikipedia:April 1, 2005]]. A huge banner on the
real Main Page could point to the alternate Main Page. 

>   It seems to me a spectacularly lame and unimaginative choice. If 
> running a genuinely ersatz text was too daring, at least we could have 
> run an oddball article that looked like a hoax, but I guess even that 
> was too much for the timid souls at the steering wheel.

Sadly [[exploding whale]] was already on the Main Page. As was Emperor Norton
of the United States. Either Main Page summary could have been written with a
bit more wit to work. I wouldn't mind if we recycled one or the other for just
this day though. 

> I am disappointed by the process by which this decision was reached and 
>   I especially disappointed by the outcome, but I guess it reflects the 
> fact that Wikipedia EN is overpopulated by geeky teenagers who probably 
> prefer Red Bull to red wine and Game Boys to sex.

I for one prefer sex above all those other things you mentioned. :)

-- mav 

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