Goat

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The goat is RationalWiki's principal mascot.

Although the first article on goats is known to have appeared on RationalWiki as early as June 2007, the precise origins of this fondness of goats among RationalWikians is lost in the mists of time, although Human says that it sprang from the creation of recipes "mostly using goat" posted by PalMD's sock, DocSock.^[1] Another theory states that it is probably related to the expression "goatspeed", which was common among certain RationalWikians during July. This was in turn, of course, a snarky rewrite of the Schlaflyism "Godspeed".

RobS claims that the origin is from a template made by Helios.^[2] However, the article on goats predates the existence of the template by several days. According to Kels the gag was started by Conservapedians thinking they were sacrificing goats. ^[3] By October, this veneration was further refined with the adoption of the goat Heidrun as official mascot of RationalWiki.

Other creatures have been proposed, though all attempts to replace goat were short-lived, and all the proposals forgotten.

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3. ↑ Kels: PalMD's thing about goats came from the whole "they assume we're all over here sacrificing goats" gag. It was always a bit of an in-joke