User talk:68.237.239.228

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[edit] April 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing. However, unconstructive edits are considered vandalism and are immediately reverted. If you continue in this manner you may be blocked from editing without further warning. Please stop, and consider improving rather than damaging the work of others. —slakr\ talk / 03:07, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

please don't block me for trying to archive my talk page 68.237.239.228 (talk)

[edit] My feelings on April Fool's and Wikipedia

It's a state of uncertainty and bewilderment. While I can certainly understand why some people want to treat Wikipedia as serious all the time (after all, even one day of buffoonery can have its lasting effects), I really wish people would be allowed to pull clever pranks without recourse. A one day lifting of the usual ban on good humor. People getting warned for joke edits on April Fool's seems... wrong. Hell, I got warned twice today and blocked once, and it was all harmless really. Once was archiving my own talk page. The other time was a harmless unblock request. Wikipedia is a serious project, but its members (especially those that have given a lot to the project) should be allowed to have fun at least once year. Please.

This short bit won't change a damn thing, but it was worth writing. Just don't ask me why.


-The semi-anonymous blogger