Re: [WikiEN-l] Grape Lane (euph.)

2009-07-10 Thread David Gerard
2009/7/10 geni geni...@gmail.com: It got 207K pageviews over the day. Previous days featured article only got 31.9K. Apparently our readership in general likes 13th century British history. Damn you that was a coffee moment. - d. ___ WikiEN-l

Re: [WikiEN-l] Grape Lane (euph.)

2009-07-10 Thread Charles Matthews
Tim Starling wrote: But whatever offends you about a feature article choice, regular Wikipedians probably know that there's not much point trying to convince Raul654 of anything. I did like the bit in the Signpost where he complained that Andrew Lih's book only mentioned FA twice. Charles

Re: [WikiEN-l] Grape Lane (euph.)

2009-07-10 Thread Carcharoth
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:31 AM, David Gerarddger...@gmail.com wrote: I can hardly believe there was no angst here, of all places, on yesterday's featured article. Did someone fail to think of the fictional children? Good discussion on Raul's talk page:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Grape Lane (euph.)

2009-07-10 Thread Carcharoth
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Charles Matthewscharles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Tim Starling wrote: But whatever offends you about a feature article choice, regular Wikipedians probably know that there's not much point trying to convince Raul654 of anything. I did like the bit in

Re: [WikiEN-l] Grape Lane (euph.)

2009-07-10 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Tim Starling wrote: I suspect frequent editors of Wikipedia have long since become desensitized to obscene language, thanks to the constant stream of it that gets inserted into articles as vandalism, and written all over their user talk pages as revenge for reverting that vanadalism. I for

Re: [WikiEN-l] Grape Lane (euph.)

2009-07-10 Thread Charles Matthews
Carcharoth wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Charles Matthewscharles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: Tim Starling wrote: But whatever offends you about a feature article choice, regular Wikipedians probably know that there's not much point trying to convince Raul654 of

Re: [WikiEN-l] Grape Lane (euph.)

2009-07-10 Thread Durova
If anyone is inspired to try a sequel there was a Mount Whoredom in colonial Boston. Center left, second hill from the shoreline. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boston,_1775bsmall1.png -Durova On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: Tim Starling

[WikiEN-l] Grape Lane (euph.)

2009-07-09 Thread David Gerard
I can hardly believe there was no angst here, of all places, on yesterday's featured article. Did someone fail to think of the fictional children? Good discussion on Raul's talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Raul654#Today.27s_featured_article - d.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Grape Lane (euph.)

2009-07-09 Thread geni
2009/7/10 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: I can hardly believe there was no angst here, of all places, on yesterday's featured article. Did someone fail to think of the fictional children? Good discussion on Raul's talk page:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Grape Lane (euph.)

2009-07-09 Thread Anthony Simone
geni wrote: 2009/7/10 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: I can hardly believe there was no angst here, of all places, on yesterday's featured article. Did someone fail to think of the fictional children? Good discussion on Raul's talk page:

Re: [WikiEN-l] Grape Lane (euph.)

2009-07-09 Thread Tim Starling
Anthony Simone wrote: A lot of the discussion was at Talk:Main Page, with some more at the article talk page. Note, though, that almost all the people who seriously objected to it were IPs and users with very few edits. So, it seems to have gone over pretty well with our users, most of whom