Talk:Buurtpoes Bledder

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A fact from Buurtpoes Bledder appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 September 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the death of the cat Buurtpoes Bledder (pictured) was covered in national news, including SBS 6 and De Telegraaf?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Buurtpoes Bledder.

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Remove this article

Why on earth, to put it mildly, does this article exist? And what extraordinary person, to put it mildly, put a reference to it, or allowed it to be put, on the Main Page?

This article is wholly out of place in Wikipedia English. It is so uninteresting that there isn't even a corresponding article in Wikipedia Dutch; the subject matter is mildly funny but only to some students and the odd barman in the Leiden area of the Netherlands. Daily paper De Telegraaf and tv channel SBS 6, mentioned on the Main Page, are known for their non-news. This whole exercise may be a Leiden students' prank; in that case, well, ha ha. But enough please. Trying to mess up (to put it mildly again) Wikipedia, is for teenagers, not for you, who are all, notoriously, nearing 30.

Why the American English? British English too complicated?

But, again, and most importantly: Wikipedia editors, how did this entry get onto the Home Page? Wikipedia Pollution Security - if there exists such a thing and it should - needs tightening. Surely Wikipedia is not going for the YouTube loveable animals trick?

All in all, I propose to remove this article. An item in Dutch Wikipedia - but much shorter please! - couldn't do much damage, I suppose.