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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:AmiDaniel|AmiDaniel]] ''for the revert the right page award ===
-Who succeeded in [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=prev&oldid=61168673 reverting] vandalism, but posting it to the main page instead of the article.
-===[[User:Animum|Animum]] ''for the lèse majesté award''===
-'''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]]; also accidentally [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=block&user=Animum&page=User%3AClueBot blocked] [[User:ClueBot|ClueBot]].
-===[[User:Maxim|Maxim]] ''for the "what does this button do?" award''===
-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]] ''for the baby and bathwater award''===
-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]]