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[[Image:Chapeltown_Stocks.jpg|thumb|right|Wikipedia's village stocks, found a short distance from the [[WP:PUMP|village pump]]]]
[[Image:Cucking stool.png|thumb|right|A foolish administrator receives a ritual ducking from the Wikipedia community]]
It is a truth universally acknowledged that intelligent and otherwise sensible editors and administrators occasionally do something '''REALLY STUPID'''.

Based on the principle that stupidity is best punished by humiliation, the '''village stocks''' have been built to identify the Wiki-idiots in our midst.

==Stocks of shame==

===[[User:Maxim|Maxim]]===
Who managed, on 3 February 2008, to delete the [[Main Page]]. (confession: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard%2FIncidents&diff=188874109&oldid=188873946])

===[[User:Scientizzle|Scientizzle]]===
Who succeeded in locking the servers for half an hour on 16 January 2008 by deleting the [[Wikipedia:Sandbox|sandbox]], as discussed at [[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive355#Apologies everyone...|AN/I]] and thus achieved various [[WP:TROUT|Wikitrouts]] and barn stars on their [[User talk:Scientizzle/Archive 5#Wikipedia:Sandbox|user page]].

==See also==
* [[Wikipedia:Whacking with a Wet Trout]]

[[Category:Wikipedia humor|Village stocks]]

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