On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Ken Arromdee <arrom...@rahul.net> wrote: > Generally, I'm not a fan of this sort of joke. They give the impression of > "we get to break the rules when we want to, as long as it's funny. > Meanwhile, everyone else has to follow them." > > (And WP:COI really does seem to say it's a conflict of interest for an > article about the Earth to be made by Earthlings. It's easy to invoke IAR > and say that that's not what it's supposed to mean, but it's not all that > different from other examples that we're supposed to take seriously as being > COI.)
Oh, lighten up! People are just having a little fun, no one takes it seriously, and no one is "breaking the rules". People are just having a laugh! It's a small bit of satire at the culture at AfD, and an opportunity for people to make Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (our spiritual ancestor) jokes. --Oskar _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
