Wikipedia:Acrostic Editing

WP:ACROSTIC

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This article is about acrostic editing. An acrostic is a poem (or other form of writing) in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet.^[1] Acrostic editing refers to the editing of wiki articles to spell out a word, message or the alphabet.

Examples

"According to all known laws of aviation, there... i s n o w a y t h a t a b e e s h o u l d b e a b l e t o f l y. I t s w i n g s a r e t o o s m a l l t o g e t i t s f a t l i t t l e b o d y o f f t h e g r o u n d. T h e b e e, o f c o u r s e, f l i e s a n y w a y s. B e c a u s e b e e s d o n 't c a r e w h a t h u m a n s t h i n k i s i m p o s s i b l e.

—Bee Movie intro made acrostically of Wikipedia entry edits.

Acrostic editing examples can include these edits to speculative fiction articles to spell out the intro to the 2007 American computer animated comedy film Bee Movie.

References

^ "Acrostic Poetry". OutstandingWriting.com. Retrieved 2017-05-22.

[acrostic-1] "Acrostic Poetry". OutstandingWriting.com. Retrieved 2017-05-22.

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