The Mike Handel Story Options

[John Limey]

BLP hoax accusing fake Oxford professor of murder makes it into the DYK section and draws 4300 page views. Read all about it at On Wikipedia.

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[Herschelkrustofsky]

Nice job. I particularly enjoyed the inclusion of "animal rights groups" as a source calling the beleaguered Mr. Handel a "murderer" and a "Nazi." To paraphrase Homer Simpson: "Animal rights groups... is there anything they don't know?" (Here, for the record, is the archived ANI discussion.)

I'm thinking about editing on WQ as "Quillercastingcouch." ... The purpose being to see if they can play WR regulars, without screwing up.

A fascinating technique that I must copy. When youre caught with your pants (in the US sense and still more the British sense) down use lots of irrelevances and smoke and mirrors to hide the fact. Milton of course plays the part of the WR regular to perfection. Without screwing up? If he did that he wouldn't be such a convincing WR regular.

Mike, you must train your new IDs not to swing at every pitch.