Re: [Foundation-l] Cartman Gets an Anal Probe English Wikipedia's featured article today

2012-02-07 Thread emijrp
Oh, that discussion again. Try harder, German style http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_%E2%80%93_Die_freie_Enzyklop%C3%A4die_1269203954464.png http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_Diskussion:Hauptseite/alt3diff=prevoldid=72174091 2012/2/7 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com

Re: [Foundation-l] Cartman Gets an Anal Probe English Wikipedia's featured article today

2012-02-07 Thread Svip
On 7 February 2012 04:49, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#Bad_choice_of_featured_article is pretty good reading. The complaints usually sums as 'hey, great work on that article, unfortunately, I am a bit uncomfortable with subject at hand, so

Re: [Foundation-l] Cartman Gets an Anal Probe English Wikipedia's featured article today

2012-02-07 Thread Tim Starling
On 07/02/12 22:13, Svip wrote: On 7 February 2012 04:49, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#Bad_choice_of_featured_article is pretty good reading. The complaints usually sums as 'hey, great work on that article, unfortunately, I am a bit

Re: [Foundation-l] Cartman Gets an Anal Probe English Wikipedia's featured article today

2012-02-07 Thread Fred Bauder
Some FAs should never be shown on the main page. Nothing in the FA criteria says anything about the subject of the article: such as whether the subject is of broad interest or has educational merit. Such criteria should be considered for choosing articles to show on the main page. The main

Re: [Foundation-l] Cartman Gets an Anal Probe English Wikipedia's featured article today

2012-02-07 Thread HaeB
2012/2/7 Svip svi...@gmail.com: On 7 February 2012 04:49, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#Bad_choice_of_featured_article is pretty good reading. The complaints usually sums as 'hey, great work on that article, unfortunately, I am a bit

Re: [Foundation-l] Cartman Gets an Anal Probe English Wikipedia's featured article today

2012-02-07 Thread emijrp
2012/2/7 HaeB haebw...@gmail.com 2012/2/7 Svip svi...@gmail.com: On 7 February 2012 04:49, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#Bad_choice_of_featured_article is pretty good reading. The complaints usually sums as 'hey, great work on that

Re: [Foundation-l] Cartman Gets an Anal Probe English Wikipedia's featured article today

2012-02-07 Thread Mike Christie
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:50 AM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/2/7 HaeB haebw...@gmail.com Actually, the English Wikipedia's Featured Article Director What is that? has stated himself Why are not that decissions taken under community consensus? that some articles will not

Re: [Foundation-l] Cartman Gets an Anal Probe English Wikipedia's featured article today

2012-02-07 Thread Thomas Dalton
On Feb 7, 2012 1:50 PM, emijrp emi...@gmail.com wrote: Why are not that decissions taken under community consensus? that some articles will not be featured on the main page (although he prefers to keep that list short and it currently consists only of the article Jenna Jameson):

Re: [Foundation-l] Cartman Gets an Anal Probe English Wikipedia's featured article today

2012-02-07 Thread David Gerard
On 7 February 2012 17:03, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: He's been doing it for years and has never screwed up badly enough for the community to take the job away from him. It's as simple as that. The Wikipedia community can be uncharacteristically pragmatic at times! I note

Re: [Foundation-l] Cartman Gets an Anal Probe English Wikipedia's featured article today

2012-02-07 Thread Fred Bauder
On 7 February 2012 17:03, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: He's been doing it for years and has never screwed up badly enough for the community to take the job away from him. It's as simple as that. The Wikipedia community can be uncharacteristically pragmatic at times! I note

Re: [Foundation-l] Cartman Gets an Anal Probe English Wikipedia's featured article today

2012-02-07 Thread K. Peachey
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: Casting aside the infantile slogan, Wikipedia is not censored, I think having the pilot of South Park on the Main Page is quite appropriate; the subject is significant. Fred Really, It's not that much different than

Re: [Foundation-l] Cartman Gets an Anal Probe English Wikipedia's featured article today

2012-02-07 Thread Tim Starling
On 08/02/12 09:09, K. Peachey wrote: On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: Casting aside the infantile slogan, Wikipedia is not censored, I think having the pilot of South Park on the Main Page is quite appropriate; the subject is significant. Fred

[Foundation-l] Cartman Gets an Anal Probe English Wikipedia's featured article today

2012-02-06 Thread MZMcBride
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#Bad_choice_of_featured_article is pretty good reading. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l