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Repeating internet nonsense
The following was added to the haiku article:

A well-known self-referential haiku reads, To express oneself In seventeen syllables Is very diffic-

If you don't know haiku, this was the equivalent of adding a bit of doggerel to the Wikipedia limerick article that didn't have the aabba rhyme structure nor the rigid meter required by the limerick requirements, but you still called it a famous limerick. There are numerous examples of very similar pseudo-haiku on the internet, but that doesn't make them a haiku. With its humorous intent, it is closer to being a senryu, but senryu require both humor and poetry, and the "haiku" above is just a plain sentence that has been sliced into the 5-7-5 syllable format of yuki teikei haiku.

Stuffing something into a 5-7-5 syllable form does not automatically make it a haiku&mdash;if by "haiku" we mean a poem based upon the criteria and traditions of the Japanese poetry form haiku. A haiku should almost always have a kigo ("season word"), or a sense of season or place or time. Most haiku also have a kireji ("cutting word'), which is a strong semantic break in the text. Even if they do not have a kireji, they will usually have some sort of comparison, contract, or juxtaposition between different images or ideas.

The 5-7-5 syllable format has, in fact, been mostly abandoned by modern English-language haiku poets for two reasons.
 * 1) What the Japanese count is not syllables, but morae.
 * 2) The English language packs more information per syllables than the Japanese language, so that to match the brevity of Japanese haiku, English-language haiku should have fewer syllables&mdash;around 13 syllables is the recommendation from one expert.