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I don't think six pieces of markup that only slightly modify the text are that big of a deal.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I recall the joke using specially colored text (to mimic the display of various IDEs and programming-oriented text editors), at least at one point, which is no longer a feature on the wiki. Maybe that was a factor in its last removal, but it's odd to have the explanation there without the joke itself, though admittedly the part about dummied-out text on a page about dummied-out content is amusing on its own.
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
So there used to be a joke on the Dummied Out page, where the second paragraph would be enclosed in the C "comment" markup.
This has been deleted and re-added several times, with seemingly no actual discussion involved at any point. Currently, the joke is gone, but the source code comment explaining it is still there.
Can we get an official ruling on this?