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

Thu Mar 31 13:24:03 UTC 2005

Viajero 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]]. 
>  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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> Signed,
> Just Another Dinosaur

How about we run [[Exploding whale]] again -  it /looks/ like a hoax, 
but it isn't.

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