Forum:What's all this about?
I was just reading the Uncyclopedia article in Wikipedia, and it mentioned something about "Epsom Girls' Grammar School" and a student that was harassed.
Somebody posted her name and cell phone number, it says. (pictures too?)
I'm just wondering, did Uncyclopedia as a website get any sort of punishment or warning or something? From Wikipedia or anything? I'm just curious. --Lord Gneo 22:43, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
- Uncyclopedia has a vanity policy against posting articles about yourself, or people who aren't famous like grammar school students that nobody cares about. If anything was posted, it was quickly deleted by one of our admins. Wikipedia has this happen to them a lot as well, as anyone can edit Wiki pages even from an anonymous IP, because that is the way MediaWiki works, the software that powers Wikipedia and Uncyclopedia. Wikipedia has nothing to do with Uncyclopedia, so they wouldn't "warn" us about anything. If anyone has anything posted about them, and they are in a grammar school being harassed and bullied, they can put a link to the offending article on QVFD and call it vanity and get it deleted and get the account or IP that posted it, banned. --Lt. Sir Orion Blastar (talk) 23:23, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
- Wikipedia's article on Uncyclopedia is a libelous, vicious and unfunny attempt by a competing website to tell the "facts" and "truth" about this website. Frankly, their lack of photoshopped pics of Abe Vigoda's face on a baby's body disgusts me. Plus, they never call on our birthday. It's too much bother for them, maybe. Let us never speak of them again. Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 01:08, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
To answer your question, we weren't punished in any way except for being very embarrassed by the story. We've since completely overhauled our vanity policies, so that anything we find about a subject or person we haven't heard of is killed on sight. We also don't allow articles on schools, as these almost always turn into troll fodder. Neither Wikipedia nor Wikia polices us. We police ourselves. I know that's a shocking concept in Today's screwy, amoral world, but the community itself keeps this sort of thing from happening, simply because it's the right thing to do. As a humor wiki, we not only criticize others for acting without conscience or responsibility, but try to shine as a beacon for how we think others should act. For example, none of us speak for the rest of the community, like I'm doing now...--<<
>> 02:45, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
- Yeah, that's right. <<
>> does not speak for me, and I agree with everything he says. ----OEJ 03:28, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
No matter this policy being raised by such ocurrence, zero tolerance for vanity is one of those things that make us the best of camarilla wannabe humorists in wikiworld. -- herr doktor needsAbeam 
[scream!] 17:28, 28 May 2007 (UTC)