Brings to mind

an old joke about McEnroe and a visit to a fertility clinic.

On an entirely unrelated note, is there something a little goatse about this icon? No? Hmm.

well...

That just had me giggling away to myself, As half the office looked at me like I was losing my marbles.

well played El Reg! Kudos to the finder (whom i Suspect was the one who edited it)

Wiki jokes now?

Perfect, so I can go an edit any wikipedia page and providing it is funny enough, it'll appear here?

What I'm trying to say is - viewing the revision history for that article....bet I can guess Mr. McCarthy's IP Address.....

Made me fall off my chair....

... quality.

The Reg is mint. :P

It's not the first time I've seen things like that on Wikipedia

They're often terrible at punctuation and homonyms. Shocking.

It is just

Someone trying to get "Roger's Profanisaurus" on to Wikipedia, so it can be accepted as fact by certain newspapers and courts of law.

Personally, I need to see tw@dangle in there.

Paris... Plumbing... Insert your own innuendo... <oh err>

Too late

aaannndd some spoil sport has edited it out...

Ah, so that's what's meant ...

by the term "plumber's mate" ... ???

Plumber's bits often tend to come in male and female versions. Perhaps there ought to be a warning about not leaving them in the same box overnight.

Wiki censorship

I once filled in an entry for Saint Vitas dance, (the dance displayed when you need a piss) The wiki 3rd riech soon had it removed, even though it's a fair enough description, so i'm sure it won't be long until this gem is also gastapo'd.

So El Reg is reporting graffiti now

If you want to look I'm sure you'll find many gems on a par to this on the wall of your nearest pub. Perhaps you could report them too?

Wikipedia gets 100s of edits like this every day. They get removed every day. What exactly is the point again?

what the hell's this doing in the Reg?

slow news day, huh?

1 minute

thats all it was up for look at the history.

So now I know what to expect...

... from the book with the ISBN 0875099807.

Re Pulled by AC

Pulled

By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 14th October 2008 15:37 GMT

"It's been pulled, obviously, but the old version is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plumbing&diff=prev&oldid=245218102"

I think you must be getting confused with w@nking... See seperate Wiki entry

Wikifiddlers

I remember looking at the Microsoft page on Wikipedia a few years ago. Someone had. Replaced the entire article with "MICROSOFT ARE EVIL!"

I don't use Wikipedia much (if at all) now though, so I haven't seen many shenanigans as of late.

Paris because I bet she calls in the plumbers.

I see there is an external reference

To Plumbing on The Register ;)

PH - do we have to refer to her as a plumbers mate now :p

blinding

but we need a name for this sport...

subtlety is more fun

Stuff like that gets removed pretty quickly. Far more fun to be subtle. I added an unusual yet plausible hobby to a US Christian rock singer's entry that's still there two years later.

Of course, since Wikipedia's arbitary rule is that if it's referenced in print, it must be true, simply reference "plumbing" to the printed Profanisaurus.

Really clever...

So, someone from the University of Dundee makes an edit at lunchtime, emails El Reg to brag about it and gets his name in an article about it a few hours later? Genius. I wonder if he'll post something inspirational at Have Your Say and send you a message about that too.

Plumbing is mint

fuck, I might set up my own rival site to Wikipedia to allow such blatant stupidity.

Thank you, Reg :-)

Heh, He. Check out the edits

First, they removed the offending text:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plumbing&diff=245254659&oldid=245254475

THEN, they removed an offensive reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plumbing&diff=245264038&oldid=245255203

Is Mr. McCarthy from Leicester by any chance?

~ $ nslookup 86.13.33.209

Server: croy-sm-1-l0.network.virginmedia.net

Address: 194.168.4.100

Name: cpc2-leic8-0-0-cust464.lei3.cable.ntl.com

Address: 86.13.33.209

~ $

@ChrisC

Of course it's childish and immature. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be funny :-)

Paris - because surely her plumbing's in order....

Far better

The wiki-cognoscenti (if such a thing were possible) edit articles on practices that might be termed NSFW by hyper-linking to articles where the suggested combination would be amusing. The one on 'gigolos' pointing to the evangelical preacher under 'See Also' for instance...

Or creating empty categories or articles such as 'List of French Military Victories'.

There's also the circular logic reference. Make an unsubstantiated claim. Reference a blog/feed etc that you can edit to point back at the article on Wikipedia. Job done.

Paris, because according to a blog I'm about to reference she is a world expert on the written language of Easter Island.

to all those who asked...

why this thing was on el reg. simple: it was there to save my night, my sanity, my life.

thank you, el reg, you did. God bless you!

My wikifiddle is almost 12 months old now

Hehe, even though it is obvious bollocks, the wikifiddlers haven't found it yet.

However, my attempts at English are somewhat better.

Yabba Dabba Doo!

Humour

I think everyone seems to of lost there humour bone around here? could be to do with the credit crunch maybe, I find it funny so keep up the good work El Reg! as i ain't going to go surfign that sh*t wiki looking for things like this, so having the funny ones pointed out i think your doing us people (still with a sense of humour) a service.

Thumbs up El Reg. and go back to your DBs you boring peeps.

Re: My wikifiddle is almost 12 months old now

You are Ryan Coombes and I claim my ten pounds.

Oh cum cum now!

Don't take life so seriously .............................. No one ever gets out alive.

Yet Another Humorous Wikipedia Article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_of_the_road

Did give me my morning lol, though.

@Oops

Not any more ;)

Training?

I'm curious as to what sort of training one would receive in Canada as shown in the external link, "Plumbing Training in Canada", in the pic.

Paris cause well.....