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

Thu Mar 31 20:34:15 UTC 2005

I'm glad to know that we're making personal attacks because of a  
failure to put fake material on the front page. It displays a maturity  
and respect for the project that speaks volumes.

What? Silent is a volume.

-Snowspinner

On Mar 31, 2005, at 4:59 AM, 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
>
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