[WikiEN-l] Final April Fools wrap up

Sat Apr 2 23:57:14 UTC 2005

On Apr 3, 2005 12:28 AM, Mark Pellegrini <mapellegrini at comcast.net> wrote:
> To all those people who said we should let our hair down, that April
> Fools wouldn't really be
> so bad (it was), that it wouldn't encourage vandalism wasn't too much
> (it did), that people
> would do be restrained about it (they weren't), that it would be over by
> mid-day (it wasn't),
> and that people wouldn't revert war over something so lame (they did), I
> just thought I'd mention
> that the arbcom recieved a request today from someone blocked for
> excessively reverting
> [[2005 Britannica takeover of Wikimedia]] (yes, the hoax article)
> 
> So thank you very much, to all those of you who pushed this idiotic
> idea, from those of us
> who actually have to pick up the pieces.
> 
> -- Disgruntled

To clarify I put in the request arbitration and I carried out the
block. The problem is not directly related to april the first
(although it is a contributing factor) but to silly articles in
general.

-- 
geni