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-[[Image:Chapeltown_Stocks.jpg|thumb|right|Wikipedia's [[Stocks|village stocks]], found a short distance from the [[WP:PUMP|village pump]]]]
-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.
-==Hall of shame==
-[[Image:Cucking stool.png|thumb|right|A foolish administrator receives a ritual [[WP:DUCK|ducking]] from the Wikipedia community]]
-===[[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 posted the reversion 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:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] ''for the [[WP:BOLD|boldness]] award''===
-On August 1, 2005, Ed Poor, one of Wikipedia's senior editors, [[WP:BOLD|boldly]] decided to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=Wikipedia%3AVotes+for+deletion delete] the entire [[WP:VFD|VFD deletion process]]. The whole episode is described in the [[WP:POST|Signpost]] article [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-08-08/Deletion deletion|"Deletion deletion"]].
-===[[User:Maxim|Maxim]] ''for the "what does this button do?" award''===
-Who managed, on [[3 February]] [[2008]], to delete the [[Main Page]], because [[WP:BEANS|someone told him it could not be done]]. (confession: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard%2FIncidents&diff=188874109&oldid=188873946])  Moral of the story: [[WP:DDMP|Don't delete the main page]]
-===[[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]].
-==Nominations==
-Any editor perpetrating an act of extreme but logical stupidity can be nominated for this page, if the act or result is outrageous or amusing.  (Please note this is not a [[pillory]].) It is courteous to inform the nominee of their sentence by posting [[Template:Stocks]] on their talk page.  Consider also using the following barnstar for serious Wiki-breaking offences:
-{| style="border: 1px solid {{{border|gray}}}; background-color: {{{color|#fdffe7}}};"
-|rowspan="2" valign="middle" | [[Image:Bomba_atomowa.gif|100px]]
-|rowspan="2" |
-|style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: middle; height: 1.1em;" | '''The Destroyer of the Wiki Barnstar'''
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-|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | Oh my gosh what did you do now it seems there are monkeys and fish everywhere someone help they a... <!-- text goes here; credit to Alison for the award -->
-|}
-==See also==
-* [[Wikipedia:Whacking with a Wet Trout]]
-[[Category:Wikipedia humor|Village stocks]]
-[[Category:Wikipedia culture|Village stocks]]