Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Announcements/French Christmas logo


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.  

The result of the debate was keep.  So Why  13:08, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Announcements/French Christmas logo
The original post states "moving silliness here". Posting of an unconfirmed rumor that was not a Wikipedia announcement. -- Suntag  ☼  13:24, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Rumor, nonsense, etc. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 19:41, 18 November 2008 (UTC) Well, I'll be a crazy son of a bad word. Keep, valid.  Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 02:12, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep - an interesting, if quirky, piece of Wikipedia history. The logo switch actually happened, the page is not a hoax, and it was a real announcement. See this discussion on Anthere's French talk page (the last bit is in English), this discussion about doing the same thing for the Chinese New Year (the mailing list link there is broken), and, among others, this message on the Wikipedia-l mailing list. I'd advise anyone trying to nominate a historical page for deletion to check what links to it *before* doing so. If the Wikipedia Signpost was around in December 2003, it would have carried a story about the logo change in a Dispatches article, or at least mentioned in the News and Notes section. The Wikipedia announcements page was an important source for Wikipedia news in 2003, equivalent to the Signpost now. Deleting a page only makes it inaccessible to non-admins, and there is absolutely no reason to do that, even though it is just a wikified copy of a mailing list post. Graham 87 11:06, 19 November 2008 (UTC)


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