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Crisis erupts as furious admins, functionaries complain about crappy t-shirts
The crisis
[edit]General outrage from admins has spread quickly through the Wikipedia server. The cause? Crappy t-shirts.
One admin commented the following: "I spend YEARS editing Wikipedia, giving up my VALUABLE TIME to this cause, and I had to brave RfA! And what do I get??? Just this crappy t-shirt! But at least it's SOMETHING—I'm a Checkuser, and there are ZERO t-shirts for that!"
Sensing chaos about to erupt, a committee was formed to address the problem. The committee, comprised of the authors of the jokes at Wikipedia:List of jokes about Wikipedia, swapped ideas for solutions. While a plan for more admin and functionary appreciation and recognition was discussed, they eventually settled on creating shirts with extremely cheesy jokes. The collection is available for preview below.
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My hair was pending changes, but then I got a PERM -
I CU, sockpuppet -
I am awesome at avoiding Peacock Words, and it is often said I can also avoid Weasel Words -
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Anyone who misuses the Undo button disgusts me. Ew. -
I used to think Wikipedia had a NPOV, but turns out it's <div>-ided -
The following week, the shirts were handed out to the annoyed editors. Needless to say, the masses were not pleased. There were some reports of the new shirts called "worse than the crappy admin one". They also complained that not every advanced permission was covered by the shirts. The committee apologized and tried to address this issue, but after creating a shirt for bureaucrats that said "I'm a bureaucrat, and even I say Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy", the committee was quickly banned from creating new T-shirts, with a statement from ArbCom:
The T-Shirt Committee is indefinitely banned from creating cheesy t-shirts for wasting community time on a solution which would have never worked in anyone's mind. Plus, no one thinks they're funny, except Jimbo, and even that one's a stretch.
They forced requested I mention that they've found a loophole in their ban. Apparently, they are not supposed to create shirts, but there is no section in the ban that says anyone not in the committee cannot. They are asking for uninvolved editors to assist in creating cheesy t-shirts, and encourage you to use File:T-shirt.png.
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