Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-07-18/Humour
New forum created for people who don't care about Wikipedia
A new Wikipedia-adjacent forum has been launched by a certain Barthomelow Blasé, called NPOV. The tagline? "For people who have too much on their plate to care about Framgate."
Origin story
"So one day I was thinking," said Mr. Blasé in an interview last Tuesday, "there are places for people who love Wikipedia. And there are forums for people who hate Wikipedia. But what about the people in the middle? The ones who read Wikipedia every day, but whose eyes glaze over at the word 'RfC'? I thought: what about the people who just... don't care? Where do they go?"
The result is NPOV: a forum for people who don't give a FAC.
The forum
The site has already attracted users who don't particularly appreciate Wikipedia's existence, but don't particularly dislike it either.
"To the average reader," Blasé continues, "it's like: Do I really care if an argument breaks out about whether to use MDY or DMY on a page only 25 people read this year? Do I really care if someone named WizardDonkey87 gets blocked for sockpuppeting in an edit war about switching 'flammable' to 'inflammable'? No. I'm just here to pretend I'm an expert on existentialism when I barely skimmed the lede."
This sentiment is reflected in various threads with titles like "Why we don't have ANI reason to think about WikiDrama", "Admins we don't care about", and "Put a WP:SOCK in all this SPI dreck", to name a few.
One plate or many plates?
Despite its intended commitment to apathy, various controversies have come upon NPOV. In one thread talking about an unblock request, a commenter was banned for violating the forum's official "Complete Nonchalance" policy, on account of saying they thought it was bad.
"I realized my error, and edited the post to say it was good," said the banned poster in an interview with the Signpost. "But that was even worse. At that point I was already cooked, on god, no cap, frfr."
As of press time, the biggest controversy in the forum is the "Plate vs. Plates Debate", which started when someone wondered if "For people who have too much on their plate to care about Framgate" (the site's erstwhile official slogan (maybe)) should have "plate" replaced with "plates".
Given the overall lack of emotional investment, it is unclear whether anyone will step up to deliver a punchline, or even finish writing this arti
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Shortly after publication, the forum reached mild consensus on its voter guide for the July 2025 admin elections... neutral for all! 🤣ViridianPenguin🐧 (💬) 14:46, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Reminds me of the Talkin' Seattle Blues.— Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 18:53, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]