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Pixies (2016 April Fool nomination)[edit]

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The result was: not scheduled by — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:42, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Withdrawn at my talk page

Pixies are mischievous little elves who picked their name from a dictionary. Though first created in a garage in 1986, they are not known for garage, garage or garage. Rather, in their early days they were often seen in bars and were known to be "either sweaty or laid back and cool". Despite originating in America and having struck Pixie gold there, they are much more popular in Europe. The leader of the Pixies is called Black Francis; he has also been called Frank and Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV. Other Pixie names include Joey, and David, Paz, Kim and Kim; Kim has an identical twin, but she refused to become a Pixie. Pixies' idea of a joke is putting things in alphabetical order, but an angry Pixie once threw a guitar at another and one former Pixie once made a hit with a cannonball. They like to sing about extraterrestrials, surrealism, incest, and biblical violence. Pixies stopped officially existing in 1993, due to arguments, but only found death in 1997; one Pixie later became a magician. Pixies revived in 2004, first re-emerging in Brixton, London. (Full article...)

Most recent similar article(s): March 3rd is closest music-related article currently in queue
Main editors: CloudNine Moisejp
Promoted: Oct 2006
Reasons for nomination: Nominating for April 1 as alternative suggestion to Hitler Diaries
Support as nominator. Dweller (talk) 16:04, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: To the vast majority of WP readers, the "humorous" blurb above will, I'm afraid, read as utter gobbledegook. The main page should not be the place for in-jokes which will amuse a few, but might puzzle or irritate millions. Brianboulton (talk) 17:25, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose no funnier than the 2014 attempt to run this on 1st April. The joke runs very thin very quickly. Bencherlite ^Talk 22:21, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: I'm afraid I agree with Brianboulton that the humour will not be very meaningful to most readers, and such a blurb is probably not appropriate on the main page. My oppose is based solely on this. As for concerns about the quality of the article, I haven't had a chance to look at it very carefully to judge. It's true I'm listed as one of the main contributors, but most of my work was done for the FAR in 2011. I unfortunately have not been active in maintaining it since then. If consensus ends up being that the article needs to go back to FAR, I may be able to contribute some, but likely not at the same level as in 2011. Cheers, Moisejp (talk) 07:34, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. There are many problems with this article, including dead links, unsupported statements, prose issues, poorly formatted refs, inconsistent date formats, single sentence paras, etc. I'm not sure anyone could wholeheartedly support this nom with the article in such a parlous state. It's showing its age quite badly and isn't too far away from FAR, as it certainly wouldn't pass FAC in its current state. - SchroCat (talk) 11:19, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'll open myself up again for being abused by once more offering to fix any problems anyone would like to point out. I have plenty of experience with FAC. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 13:49, 25 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]