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By Cdtew and Hahc21
Cabbage, which was quite possibly your worst nightmare as a child, is a new featured article.
This Signpost "Featured content" report covers material promoted from October 13, 2013 through October 19, 2013.
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Good grief, lighten up people. Either the joke works for you or doesn't. There are millions of tasks on this project for which your time would better be put to use. Cdtew (talk) 23:43, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Just noting here that it was my decision to make that the headline title. Yes, millions of people eat cabbage, and just as many people make fun of it. It's certainly not meant to be an encyclopedic description. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 06:11, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The confusion (from my end at any rate, and I assume from User:Simply south's as well) is with the "just as many make fun of it". I assume this is some cultural-specific reference that the rest of the world just doesn't get, but I don't think I've ever heard, seen or read anyone "making fun of cabbage" in my life, which makes the headline and caption a bizarre non sequitur. The article itself doesn't make any mention of cabbage in relation to either jokes or children (other than as a treatment for croup in children), so there isn't even any explanation for the rest of us. @Cdtew: don't tell me and SS to "lighten up" just because we've dared to question an incomprehensible comment you've made; doing jobbing work on the Signpost doesn't give you the right either to belittle people who don't share your background, or to tell people how they should be spending their time. – iridescent 10:12, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I've not belittled anyone; I'm merely suggesting that taking the Featured content report a little less seriously may have a positive effect on your life. If it failed as a joke, then my bad. It didn't insult anyone, and it wasn't something I intended to belittle the cabbage industry and cabbage-lovers worldwide. So, let's move on. For the record, I love all types of cabbage. Cdtew (talk) 11:36, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I would have chosen a different title also, and it's usually risky to make jokes such as this one, but this is a minor issue in the big picture, so let's keep calm and carry on. Let's keep in mind that we can be grateful that we have volunteers who care enough to spend hours of their personal time creating featured content and writing about it in the Signpost. --Pine 18:26, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]



       

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