UDWiki talk:Projects/Very Funny...or Not

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We're gonna have to move this later...Someone come up with a witty, but decent project name that we can stick into UDWiki:Projects, despite the fact the project page hasn't been used in half a year... --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 21:53, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

I'm pushing "Project: not so great" again.--Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 21:54, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

I just realized the Project page needs minor clean up as well. O.o --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 21:58, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Project:DoublePlusUngood ~ 22:02, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Notice on purged pages

I made the template {{HumorousPagesCleanUp}} to put on top of the affected pages:

	Humorous Pages Clean-Up
	The content of Projects/Very Funny...or Not is currently being reviewed to get rid of unhumorous entries. The voting takes place here. Come and let your voice be heard!

Helps to bring the message to those who don't watch community news, and hopefully gives a broader voter base. -- Spiderzed▋ 18:33, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Um...

...Is anyone even gonna bother to help clean up these pages? I know we're running slow, but one vote after a week and a half? That's just not right. Not right at all... --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 23:28, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

It were the holidays, meesta. Wiki was generally running slowly. Personally, I wanted to vote all the time, but the put the thought on the backburner with all the holiday stuff going on. -- Spiderzed▋ 23:37, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Hm. Good point. Perhaps we ought to extend the current ones by another week. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 23:45, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

An important stipulation on the 2/3 requirement

First of all, this project is a great idea, props to whoever came up with it. One little thing that is nagging me is the 2/3 vote requirement for deciding if something is funny or not. The 2/3 requirement is completely reasonable for determining the status of good articles etc, but I can foresee a potential problem when applied to humour, since comedy can often have a strong polarizing effect.
You'll see in this live comedy, where something is just drop dead funny to half the people in a room, but the other half are left scratching there heads or steaming. This doesn't necessarily mean the joke isn't funny, it's just one of those things that causes a strong reaction down the middle. To ensure that such humour would still be recognized by the wiki, I would propose that a stipulation be added to the wording "Those that receive 2/3 Yay votes or a total of 10 Yay votes will be kept".
My thinking there is that if something is humourous enough to get 10 people to vote for it in our declining wiki base, then it should be included as funny, even if another 8 or 10 people vote against. So far there are only 3 people voting on any of these, so it will probably be a completely moot point, but I'd like to have the language added before any potential issue comes up just in case. Anyone have a problem with this?--_GANG Giles Sednik _CAPD 06:41, 28 January 2011 (UTC)

The Future

Do we not run into a problem when this is over? More unfunny stuff will just be added until this whole long process has to be done again. Wouldn't it make sense to set up a system whereby a vote would have to take place to decide what is put on these pages in the first place?--E Gadus 19:05, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

We'll get to that when we get to that. For now, let's clear up the current things on the page. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 19:42, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

On Hold

This project will be on hold for a few days just so I can resettle myself back on the wiki. Next set will be available for voting on Tuesday, March 15th. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 01:19, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Nobody vote on Great Profiles or Random Public Speeches from March 15th. They're due for an archive and removal of unfunny things, and I've got to get to class. So I'll resume archival and removal when I return. Unless someone wishes to do it for me. That would be nice too. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} 15:19, 30 March 2011 (BST)

Since your network troubles seem to persist, I've cycled the old entries and set up new ones. -- Spiderzed█ 21:14, 3 May 2011 (BST)

BJAODN

I move for anything deleted to be moved to olden-days Wikipedia-style Bad Jokes And Other Deleted Nonsense page(s). All in favour? ᚱᛁᚹᛖᚾᚨᚾᛏ 22:18, 13 May 2011 (BST)

I don't really care. The crap that gets thrown out is IMHO hardly worth to be preserved, but if someone wants to, be my guest as long as it isn't me who has the work with that. --Oh, and vote on Project Funny, by the way. -- Spiderzed█ 22:23, 13 May 2011 (BST)

I'd assume just get rid of it. Most people cant even be bothered to vote on them so chances are it won't be missed.       13:52, 14 May 2011 (BST)

What deadline?

Since when is there a deadline for voting here? A notice would have been nice, it'd have saved me a lot of typing <_< --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 18:24, 19 May 2011 (BST)

Voting closes two weeks from the timestamp. And yeah, I grinded my teeth as I struck all your votes -_- At least it hasn't been decisive in most cases. --Oh, and vote on Project Funny, by the way. -- Spiderzed█ 18:34, 19 May 2011 (BST)

Ah hell. I'll try reading next time. Though most likely I'll stay away 'til I have time to watch the wiki again. Cheers Spider. --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 18:49, 19 May 2011 (BST)

I forsee..

the humorous pages being a lot shorter after this is all said and done..       02:24, 23 May 2011 (BST)

They will be. 90% of it is a junkyard of unfunny in-game transcripts. -- Spiderzed█ 16:45, 23 May 2011 (BST)

And is this just the start of a wiki wide clean-up?       02:18, 24 May 2011 (BST)

Ending date

I think adding the time the voting would close to each of the articles in question might simplify things for you and the voters because it'd be easily recognizable, not that we get that many voters anyways.. I'll make a suitably shiny template tomorrow.       04:24, 11 June 2011 (BST)

Here she be:

Voting Ends on: Now!

{{VoteEnd| (Date voting ends) }}

Feel free to use it or not. I didn't add a category to the template because I was unsure of it's fate. It's simple and would probably work out nicely on pages where you have a continuous vote going on like we do here.

Shiny! Hopefully, I'll get around this week-end to cycle the current batch and add a new one. I'll put this one to use when I get around to it. -- Spiderzed█ 13:27, 11 June 2011 (BST)

Forgot I made this. I might add it in tomorrow.       03:58, 8 August 2011 (BST)

Graffiti

Now that Great Profiles is done and dusted, is Great Graffiti next for cleaning up? ~~ Chief Seagull ~~ ^talk 10:44, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

I'm not even sure if I want to think about Great Graffiti >.> I'd need to (or someone else) reformat the page so it'd be easy to vote on. More like the format for the other humorous pages.        16:24, 16 November 2011 (UTC)