HRWiki:Fun Fact Review Committee
From Homestar Runner Wiki
The STUFF'd Project Activities Control League (S'PACL - pronounced spackle) is a grassroots wiki-community movement dedicated to protecting the wiki from overcrazed fans who dump useless and illogical fun facts on and around our network, clog the Select The Usable Fun Facts pages with junk, generally try to claim that they found all the obscure referances, and risk transforming the wiki into a forum.
Our by-laws and roster may be found on the talk page.
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Core Beliefs and Goals
- Protect and defend the Fun Facts that pour onto the STUFF page from frivolity and unwanted foolishness.
- Move discusions of old proposals to the Archives, the talk pages, and the over STUFF'd page.
- Lobby those with power (listed here) to get rid of WikiTrolls and work toward a solution to the Fun Facts crisis.
- Lobby for the creation of a perminent Fun Fact Validation Committee with sysop powers.
Explanations and History
A long time ago, on a wikimedia site far away...
In the begining, fun facts were just a few little tid bits of trivia and fun listed at the bottom of many of the toons, Strong Bad Emails, and character pages. They were short, not too obvious or obscure, and were generally helpful and nice. Pages had only a few fun facts each, let alone different types.
15 November 2004
This date will forever live as the watershed mark of the chaos that nearly destroyed one of the all-time most popular pages on the site. On this day, the Strong Bad Email virus came out. The sheer popularity of the email was overwhelming and positive, but so many people tried to contribute new fun facts to the site that the page got out of hand, especialy when someone pointed out that not all of the suggestions were very good or thought out. Created five days later on [November 2004 at 22:42 (UTC)], by furrykef, the Select The Usable Fun Facts (or STUFF) page. It was to be a clearing house for all new and proposed fun facts. The goal was to civilize the process by centralizing and codifying the rules for approval.
