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June 15, 2007
Bringing Up The Rear
To recap our week thus far:
Monday: Elephant.
Tuesday: Elephant.
Wednesday: Elephant.
Thursday: Elephant.
Friday: No Elephant.
I guess the lack of an elephant in today's strip is supposed to be the 800-pound gorilla in the room. Which would've made for a clever strip, to have an 800-pound gorilla show up. As has been noted for the past 2 and 3/4 years, however, clever doesn't live in Prickly City. No forwarding address.
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Also this week there was a bit of discussion concerning the Wikipedia entry for Prickly City, and constant confusing revisions thereto. There appear to be at least a couple of parties interested over the past 6 months or so, for whatever reason, in seeing that Shrubville is not listed as an external link. We believe that we are highly relevant, not to mention believing that someone's humor is wearing thin, so perhaps it would be instructive to find out what's behind them devoting their time to keeping Prickly City's wikipedia page "clean."
December 8, 2006: A10brown, valedictorian - Bringem Young University, department of Political Science, makes the initial deletion, with no reason given.
I could only speculate that we must've said something about Mitt Romney, or perhaps he dug up a pair of McDonald's collector plates with words from the prophet Mac Tonight that told him to do it.
January 3, 2007: The incomparable Gorilla Jones adds Shrubville once again to its rightful place. Reason stated: "restore relevant link." There's nothing wrong with Gorilla Jones that an additional 10 victories next year by the Chicago Bulls couldn't fix.
May 4, 2007: CyberSkull, aka Trevor Downs from Los Altos, California. Once again, no reason is given, but as this user is proud to count among his uploaded wikipedia images comics such as this and this, perhaps he was just pissed off that we kept chiding Stantis for continually bringing up thongs. How dare we!
June 13, 2007: A sane & sensible person again adds Shrubville, "a blog that critiques Prickly City." Can't argue with that.
June 14, 2007 (Flag Day): Wikipedia user Pellucid argues with that. Reason: "Totally irrelevant." Totally. Unless you use the established definition of the word relevant, located in say, a dictionary: "having a bearing on or connection with the subject at issue." I would say that however tenuous one might think the connection between Shrubville and Prickly City is, a tenuous connection is still a connection, yes? I fail to see how this fellow's poor reading comprehension should impact the inclusion of Shrubville on the wikipedia page for Prickly City. I suggest he gets a'crackin on working on this one:
Historical and skeptical views
Overview of the Life of Jesus - A summary of New Testament accounts.
From Jesus to Christ — A Frontline documentary on Jesus and early Christianity.
The Jewish Roman World of Jesus
The Jesus Puzzle—Earl Doherty's website.
Work for Jesus or go to hell, I say.
Comments
Watch out, people! You're going to make Pellucid cry! If he/she spends all his/her time crying, he/she won't be able to correct countless "1/2 Hour News Hour" Wikipedia entry errors!
"The addition of a smear site to this article is proof enough to me that the individuals primarily responsible for editing this page are not interested in facts but rather in presenting the comic in the most negative light possible. If you want to add factual errors that the strip has made, a new, cited section for that should be added rather than adding a link to a smear site to the article and trying to present it as neutral commentary. --Pellucid 18:31, 15 June 2007 (UTC)"
Posted by: CJo at June 15, 2007 01:53 PM
so how do I get involved in stopping the deletions?
Posted by: Jeff at June 15, 2007 11:45 PM
