This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

"Buddy Holly is gay"

But he has also "resigned as an operations manager at a Nashville delivery company as a result of the debacle".

OVERREACT MUCH? WTF am I missing something here?

ha ha I love cranks with an axe to grind.

Ha, the guy who tracked him down is a notorious crank... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Brandt

Wikipedia Watch is a website critical of Wikipedia. It is owned by Daniel Brandt, the leader of the Southwestern chapter of Aryan Nations and an Internet activist.

The first such article I read was published by Salon.com and can be found here (http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/29/google_watch/print.html). This article isn't so bad as the others, the author does expose Brandt's motives:

Brandt is not a disinterested party; the dispute between Daniel Brandt and Google is personal. He has spent thousands of hours building a Web site that he believes is both useful and important, and Google, in its algorithmic blindness, has given Brandt a lower page rank than he thinks he's entitled to. Brandt finds it genuinely hard to believe -- and even personally insulting -- that Google won't give him more credit.

However the article does paint Mr. Brandt in a friendly light, and so it lends credibility to his cause - a cause which most if not all search engine professionals would regard as absurd.

The crux of Brandt's argument can be summed up with these paragraphs from the Salon.com article.

When you type "NameBase" into Google, Brandt's site comes up first, but Brandt is not satisfied with that. "My problem has been to get Google to go deep enough into my site," he says. In other words, Brandt wants Google to index the 100,000 names he has in his database, so that a Google search for "Donald Rumsfeld" will bring up NameBase's page for the secretary of defense. For some reason, though, all of NameBase's deep pages -- its pages with specific names and citations -- have a low Google page rank, which causes them to show up low in the search results. Search for "Donald Rumsfeld" in Google and in the first five pages you get a lot of .mil and .gov sites, some news stories, and some activist sites. Namebase's entry on Rumsfeld doesn't come up. (It is in Google's database, but to find it somebody would have to first wade through hundreds of results.)

Why is a Nazi collecting people's names and citations?

One criticism of the Tribune Company is that they are responsible for the Cubs' perpetual losing. The Tribune Company discovered that the Cubs are more profitable fielding a poor team, rather than spending big on free agents. The Chicago Cubs are located in a trendy area of Chicago, causing them to have great attendance at home games, even when the team is doing poorly.

If the Tribune Company is so unhappy about this, why don't they just edit it?

ROFFLE

Plus, all the slang...

Track listing

1. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Cobain/Grohl/Novoselic) - 5:02
2. "In Bloom" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 4:15
3. "Come As You Are" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:39
4. "Breed" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:04
5. "Lithium" (Cobain) - 4:17
6. "Polly" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:56
7. "Territorial Pissings" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:23
8. "Drain You" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:44
9. "Lounge Act" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:37
10. "Stay Away" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:33
11. "On a Plain" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:17
12. "Something In The Way" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:51
13. "Endless, Nameless" (Hidden track) (Cobain/Hongro/Nirvana)

it appears to have been edited again, not by me:

"Endless, Nameless" (Hidden track) (Cobain/Hongro/Cuomo/Urkel/Nirvana)

Portions of the name sound like vulgarities in English and Spanish, leading to its use in various jokes. Titicaca is the lake that Cornholio, alter-ego of Beavis of MTV's animated series Beavis and Butt-head, claims to come from although he believes the lake is located in Nicaragua.

The word 'Trekdom' is used interchangeably with 'Fandom' when referring to Star Trek Fandom or their fans and has been in use by fans of Star Trek fans for several decades.

After the recent cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise, the future of Trekdom is still uncertain, though it has been scaled back to its own core. Some may believe that Trekdom might die off, or it might be extinct at the onset of such conflicts such as World War III.

"Plus, all the slang..."
But shouldn't the 81 be called a 010?

Was what I found at the top of the page when I checked wikipedia a few weeks before starting a class on the Reformation.

First go here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discontinued_gay_pornography_awards

Go to the Probe / Men in Video Awards section.

Click on the 1995 recipient of the "Best Bottom" award.

Note the expression on his face.

LOL

Cultural imperialism at its WTF-est:

Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão GCL (born José Alexandre Gusmão, on June 20, 1946) is a former freedom fighter who became the first President of East Timor since independence from Indonesia.
(...)
His nickname, "Xanana", is taken from the name of the 1970's rock and roll/comedy group Sha Na Na.

On a radio interview, Trina said that the relationship was more of a "brother-sister" relationship. Later, on Victoria's RapBasement, Lil Wayne said he knew nothing of the rumors. During Wayne's childhood, he mistakenly got thought of as a gay guy but late he dismissed all these claims by watching naked gun 33 and a third.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_Wayne#Personal_life

And in the next chapter:

"Lil Wayne and Trina have recently ended their porno relationship, which was stated by Lil Wayne, himself, on BET's 106 and Park."

Did someone misspell "promo"?

Or maybe Macaulay and Macleod wrote "Baby, Now That I've Found You" in the British Library Reading Room and that's where the confusion lies.

I did take at least a decade of intense research to compose "Baby, Now That I've Found You" tbf.

They are the only father–son duo to both be punished by the NHL for biting other players

proud to recognize who this was about

Bice was nicknamed "Bogart" as a newborn by his grandmother, "Granny Madge", because she thought he had "Humphrey Bogart eyes". His family continued to call him Bogart, but when Bice was in kindergarten he shortened it to "Bo" because he did not think Bogart was cool.

Other interpretations include "I am a pigeon",[23] "My toe bleeds, Betty",[24] and "I don't want to go".[25]

Domino's Pizza China has offered American-style potato bacon pizza, crayfish crispy-and-tender chicken pizza, durian pulp pizza, and salted egg-yolk pizza, as well as Sichuan pepper-flavor tender chicken drumsticks.

citation needed for “american style potato and bacon”

having a hard time parsing what "American-style" is specifically qualifying there

Classic American sauerkraut/caper/pineapple/ketchup combo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYuUet0gJ40

home made ipecac right there

Rio's World Cup Wind-Ups was a short hidden camera practical joke show hosted by English footballer Rio Ferdinand which was filmed shortly before the 2006 FIFA World Cup.[1] The show strongly resembled the American show Punk'd[citation needed] which is hosted and produced by Ashton Kutcher. Ferdinand chose certain English footballers to play a prank on. The pranks would usually end with the catchphrase — You got merked!.

It has traditionally often been claimed that only men could become noaidi and use the drum, but both Rijkuo-Maja of Arvidsjaur (1661–1757) as well as Anna Greta Matsdotter of Vapsten, known as Silbo-gåmmoe or Gammel-Silba (1794–1870), were both noted to have done so

Hoskyns said that Waits is "unequivocally—some would say almost gruffly—heterosexual."[353]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKzzdEIWUAAggxd?format=jpg&name=small

one of the UK's favourite comedian/landlord apologist/celeb type wankers had a wanker of a dad as well shocker

christ, this recovering Anglophile never had heard of the Malayan Emergency until now

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_(musician)

He lived with his girlfriend in an apartment with all-white furniture.

I would hope so!

He assumed the name of Domenyk Lattlay-Fottfoy by deed poll. His adopted surname is an acronym for "Look After Those That Look After You – Fuck Off Those That Fuck Off You".[6]

Swein Forkbeard was King of Denmark from c. 986 and briefly King of England from December 1013.

from the article on the 1973 australian tv movie "And Millions Will Die":

Make-up artist Pat Hutchence is the mother of the late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence.

i was looking for the creepypasta of the same name. I think there's a creepypasta of the same name! I couldn't find it, though. I did find a Wikipedia list of creepypastas, which is a fucking goldmine.

The story was posted on the Creepypasta Wiki in 2011, and was removed in January 2014 due to complaints of its poor quality when compared to other gaming creepypastas, despite it being somewhat influential. The growing backlash towards the story led JC-the-Hyena to publish a protracted diatribe about his grievances with the Creepypasta Wiki's decision, which only fueled further criticism.[91]

the best wikipedia articles are edited by 12-year-olds

Byrne has never done drugs and only drinks alcohol.[126]

it's not a drug, it's a drink

The idea that John Byrne has been on an all booze, no water diet would explain a lot.

Spudulike Ltd was founded in 1974 in Edinburgh.[3][4] The company was acquired by the British School of Motoring (BSM) in 1979,[3] which helped Spudulike to rapidly expand its business as a franchise operation.

(wait until you hear about the tyre company that rates restaurants)

Is this the thread for unusual modifiers in wikipedia articles?

The cheerfully inaccurate liner notes by Andy Zax dwell at some length on The Fixx being one of the most successful new wave bands from Australia; they are in fact from England.

This would be the last album from the band, thanks to bandleader Greg Ginn's fingers being broken from a basketball accident

unusual modifiers in wikipedia articles

impossible to fault obv otr tbf

After the Bad Dudes defeat the Dragon Ninja, they celebrate by eating hamburgers with President Ronnie. At the very end, President Ronnie is seen holding a burger while standing between the Bad Dudes. Behind them are many security guards, with the White House in the background.

from the article on the 1988 arcade game Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja

His career as a translator began[2] with Hitler's Mein Kampf, commissioned by Houghton Mifflin and published in 1943. Manheim endeavored to give an exact English equivalent of Hitler's highly individual, often awkward style, including his grammatical errors.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Bernthal

On the advice of his acting teacher, Alma Becker, he joined the Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia. During his time there, he was a catcher for a Russian professional baseball team.

IDK what level of skill it took to be a catcher for a Russian pro baseball team at that time, but I assume it wasn't insignificant, and that's pretty wild considering there isn't another mention of baseball in his entire bio.

googling says he also played college and US minors, so I guess the wikipedia article just doesn't focus on that

On February 14, the band resumed work on "Gold Dust Woman" and recorded another seven takes, with the fourth being deemed the best. During this batch of takes, Fleetwood mounted a cowbell on his drum kit, replacing the hi-hat. Several months later, while the rest of the band was away on vacation, Buckingham overdubbed some parts on a Dobro guitar. Caillat placed masking tape near the guitar's sound hole and used ECM-50 and AKG C-451 microphones to record the instrument. He then boosted the upper-mid frequencies and attenuated the lower frequencies so that the instrument would cut through the mix.[3]

The take chosen for release on Rumours was reportedly recorded at 4 a.m., after a long night of attempts in the studio. Just before and during the final take, Stevie Nicks had wrapped her head with a black scarf, veiling her senses to tap memories and emotions.[4] Many unusual instruments were used in the recording, including an electric harpsichord with a phaser. The keys of the harpsichord were marked with tape so Fleetwood could play the right notes.[5] To accentuate Nicks's vocals, Fleetwood broke sheets of glass.[5] According to Caillat, "He was wearing goggles and coveralls — it was pretty funny. He just went mad, bashing glass with this big hammer. He tried to do it on cue, but it was difficult. Eventually, we said, 'Just break the glass,' and we fit it all in."[5]

perhaps very well-known lore among fans, idk, but something about the sequential and disconnected narration here gave me big this-thread vibes.

Unusual Wikipedia detail juxtaposition:

Media coverage
The Summit School at Nyack has repeatedly been the subject of media coverage. In 2002, a student was pushed out of a second-floor window by another student.[2] A 15-year-old student died there in 2014; her corpse was discovered the next morning in her room and her death was determined to be a suicide by asphyxiation.[3]

Jason Samel, a former student, accused the Summit School of child neglect, physical abuse, sexual assault, and verbal abuse, all of which he said were overlooked for years by the school's law enforcement officials. Samel alleged in one event, during an after-school detention when he was 14 years old, he was physically attacked by a male supervisor. He further alleged that when he reported this to another supervisor and to the director of the school, his accusation was dismissed. Several students have accused Summit of maintaining a punishment area, referred to as a "quiet room", where pupils accused of poor conduct or who exhibited rebellious behavior would be taken. Samel described the room as a small enclosed space where students were held for hours without access to restroom facilities for even minor transgressions.

Megan Lane, a former student at Summit School, said she was sexually harassed by a gym teacher when she was 17 years old.

In 2018, former student Robert Csak was arrested for threatening Summit School. He left six threatening voicemails for school security guard, Samuel Esposito for whom he held a long-standing hatred. Csak was later arrested and charged with criminal weapon possession. Police obtained a search warrant for his home and found 19 firearms, a silencer, more than 200 ammunition magazines, bulletproof jackets, gas masks, knives, and collapsible "asp" batons in the stockpile.

The school also runs an animal program, and the animals often go on hikes with students and staff, leading many Nyack residents to grow used to seeing groups hiking with a pig and two goats, as well as dogs.

yeah wow

A new type of tack cloth has been developed at the Y-12 National Security Complex, a nuclear weapons plant. Its purpose was to clean up microscopic beryllium particles that posed a health hazard. The inventor, Ron Simandl, also found he could use the cloths to dry-buff the alloy wheels on his car.

In the 1970s, Blakely was home to Masterpiece Inc., the seventh largest manufacturer of artificial Christmas trees.[5]

Guitarist Slash, who was childhood friends with Cassel's son, credited Cassel with giving him his nickname, because he was "always zipping from one place to another and never sitting still."[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cassel

The first stanza is:

Ut queant laxis
resonare fibris
Mira gestorum
famuli tuorum,
Solve polluti
labii reatum,
Sancte Iohannes.

"My Trip to Conwy" by Seymour Cassel

I was amused and impressed to read the plot summary for 'A Void', the English translation of Georges Perec's lipogramatic novel 'La Disparition'.

A Void's plot follows a group looking for a missing companion, Anton Vowl. It is in part a parody of noir and horror fiction, with many stylistic tricks, gags, plot twists, and a grim conclusion. On many occasions it implicitly talks about its own lipogrammatic limitation, highlighting its unusual syntax. A Void's protagonists finally work out which symbol is missing, but find it a hazardous topic to discuss, as any who try to bypass this story's constraint risk fatal injury. Philip Howard, writing a lipogrammatic appraisal of A Void in his column Lost Words, said: "This is a story chock-full of plots and sub-plots, of loops within loops, of trails in pursuit of trails, all of which allow its author an opportunity to display his customary virtuosity as an avant-gardist magician, acrobat and clown.

As a young actor in the 1930s, Pearce joined a performance tour in Germany. According to Nicholas Lyndhurst, one theatrical performance was attended by senior members of the N*zi Party.[2] At the end of the show, party officials came backstage to congratulate the cast, and Pearce shook hands with Adolf Hitler.[2] Lyndhurst claimed that Pearce said that he regretted not taking the opportunity to kill Hitler.[2]

via Big Boys (band) 'Aftermath' section:

"Horn player Tim Kopra became an astronaut and commander of the International Space Station."

Interactive game

The channel offers an innovative system allowing users to create their own personalized Zorro poster.[53] By selecting their favorite character (Zorro, Don Diego, or Gabriella) and uploading or taking a selfie, fans can generate a unique poster. This creation can then be shared on social media with #Zorro.[54]

Picariello was born in Lynn, Massachusetts on December 4, 1936, and moved to neighboring Lynn, Massachusetts as a child.[1]

Three albums were made between 2019 and 2023 but also removed from distribution and outlets because of lack of recognition, interest or support in the United kingdom in terms of live agents, labels and publishers. This was the sole reason for the removal of the material.[citation needed]

^^^ also one for the “people who obviously wrote their own articles” thread

The single did not chart. The song describes the work of a CIA torturer.

House Resolution 23261, also known as the "American hippo bill", was a bill introduced by Representative Robert F. Broussard of Louisiana in 1910 to authorize the importation and release of hippopotamuses into the bayous of the state.

Broussard argued the hippopotamuses would eat the invasive water hyacinth that was clogging the rivers and also produce meat to help solve a meat shortage in the United States. The chief collaborators and proponents of Broussard's bill were Major Frederick Russell Burnham and Captain Fritz Duquesne. Former President Theodore Roosevelt backed the plan, as did the United States Department of Agriculture, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, which praised hippopotamus meat as "lake cow bacon". William Newton Irwin, a researcher for the United States Department of Agriculture recruited by Broussard, told Congress that the bill could add one million tons of meat to the yearly American supply, and further suggested that more exotic animals should be imported for the same purpose, including dik-diks, rhinoceroses, African buffalo, Tibetan yaks, and Manchurian pigs.

Although the "American hippo Bill" developed a broad base of support, it was never passed by the US Congress.

i will be completely unsurprised if Trump tries to revive this