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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 engage in acts of extreme stupidity.

Based on the fundamental principle that such blatant disregard of sensibility, however unintended, is best punished by humiliation, the '''village stocks''' have been built to identify the wiki-idiots in our midst.

==Stocks of shame==
===[[User:Animum|Animum]]===
A self-confession; was somehow overly impetuous and [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AJimbo_Wales&diff=183936104&oldid=183936036 reverted] [[User:Jimbo Wales|Jimbo]].

===[[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 his/her [[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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