2009/4/1 Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvards...@gmail.com>: > 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.
Amen. Surely it's a good sign that the community can take the piss out of itself. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
