Talk:Wind-up

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[edit] www.starbuckscoffee.co.uk

This was a classic internet wind-up, which the owners of Starbucks have tried to quash. They took the owners of the web site to court in 2004 but, so far (June 2005), the link still works. Someone took the http://www.starbuckscoffee.co.uk link off the wind-up wikipedia article page in January 2005, either because they didn't like the offensive nature of the link or because they anticipated its demise. That fact that it's still there prompted this discussion page submission. Whether or not you are offended by the wind-up merchant's effacement of the Starbucks logo, it remains a cardinal example of what a wind-up is. Matt Stan 12:33, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Well, I actually deleted because it doesn't really enhance the article. Having the link just promotes that particular cause, and doesn't help to explain wind-ups in general. If it was a site reviewing lots of pranks, that would be fine, but generally I think external links should be kept to an minimum. sjorford →•← 14:48, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] cleanup

I took out the cleanup tag, which had been there for ages. If someone really cares about this, then it might be better to actually do the clean-up, or at least indicate what needs cleaning up, rather than shoving a rather pointelss banner on the page itself. (It was pointless because it didn't achieve any effect.) Matt Stan 18:01, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Article cleaned up. Also, Wind_Up has been merged with this article. --MDude 23:09, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Move?

This page should probably be moved to the Wiktionary but I don't know how to do this. -User:HopeSeekr of xMule