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[[File:Bomba atomica.gif|thumb|200px|[http://movie-sounds.org/war-movie-sound-clips/sound-clips-from-dr-strangelove-1964/as-you-know-the-premier-loves-surprises Just the fact that you ''can'' push the button doesn't mean you ''should''.] ]]
[[Wikipedia:Village stocks#Maxim for the "Doesn't do anything anyway" award|One admin]] was discussing the '''deletion of the [[Main Page|main page]]''' in [[WP:IRC|IRC]] and asked if the technical ability to delete pages with over 5,000 revisions, like the main page, had ever been re-enabled. Another admin (jokingly) commented that he had tested it and found that the main page still couldn't be deleted. The first admin thought he would test it for himself. The main page got deleted.<ref>[[Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive363#I deleted the Main Page|"I deleted the Main Page"]]. Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive363. Retrieved 21 February 2010.</ref>{{efn|This was not, by a long stretch, the first time the Main Page was deleted. See its {{URL|1=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=Main+Page&year=&month=-1&tagfilter=&subtype=delete|2=deletion log entry.}} Some resulted from the involved administrators' accounts being compromised. For example, the deletion as of 05:08, December 8, 2007 – which resulted in a {{URL|1=https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=&user=&page=User%3AEye_of_the_Mind%40enwiki&year=&month=-1&tagfilter=&hide_tag_log=1&hide_thanks_log=1|2=desysopping}} – was apparently the account being used by a relative after the admin failed to log off, and the incident as of May 7, 2007 was the result of a password hack. In total, the Main Page has been deleted 16 times. (Yikes!)}}
You might think you are having a laugh, but sometimes, the joke is missed. If you find yourself having to say "jokes do not come across well here", you are best off having avoided the joke in the first place.
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