This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

One oddity connected with this series relates to the lack of a collected edition hardcover book usually offered by the Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). Nearly every Star Wars book has been published in hardcover through the club. The future plans for the publication of this trilogy remains unknown.

She was one of the rare supercentenarians known for reasons other than longevity.[3].

Themes brought up are: powerlessness, family systems, arrested development, boundaries, abuse, cultural pervasiveness of sex addiction, the denial of the addict, the relationship of money and sexuality, intimacy disorders, codependence, infidelity, secrecy, prostitution, print and video pornography at home and work, discovery of sex addiction by others, and of course, addiction as a coping method for trauma and uncomfortable feelings, namely shame. The movie has received critical acclaim for its brutally realistic and extremely sensitive depiction of a sophisticated, urbane man in the throes of powerlessness.

^^ future summary of my biopic

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

Kursa Nasau is a politician from Tokelau. He is a member of the Council for the Ongoing Government of Tokelau, and is a failpule on Atafu. He also was one of the founding members of the united nations of Tokelauinian emperism in the third century after dynasty. In addition, he denies the existence of Asia and Australia but does not deny the existence of kangaroos.
Though this is seen as a win in cultural politics on the isle of Hawaï. He recently found the meaning of his life in the search for the answer to the question: "does the pope shit in the woods." Though the pope denies he does, his clairvoyant kangaroos clearly told him he does!

Hoffs was actually naked when she recorded the song, after being convinced by Sigerson that Olivia Newton-John got her amazing performances by recording everything while naked.[9]

I was so into Susanna Hoffs as a teenager that it might have killed me to know that at the time.

Its killing me to know that now!

^^^

I mean, have you seen her lately? She still looks fantastic, especially with being 52!

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

[4] The reception room of his home contained a number of pieces of ivory cutlery, deliberately intended as a pun on his name.[5]

what a cool guy

In the bio of Rich Little: In 1991 he reprised the role of Nixon as ideal sperm donors in Gina's fantasies on the soap opera Santa Barbara.

huh. the article for donkey punch contains a helpful and mildly nsfw animated gif.

"mildly"

also your username is appropriate for so many reasons right now

ha...i KNEW that's what for this thread were bumped

HA! holy shit

What are we going to do when wiki goes dark Wednesday?

Ask gygax!?

Ask Ned Day

What are we going to do when wiki goes dark Wednesday?

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, January 17, 2012 4:15 AM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is anyone else reading this to the melody of "now that we've found love"?!

or, you know, in the compatible lyric hole

"mildly"

i mean, it's only a line drawing! i clicked through some of the other sexual topics hoping the .gif was one of a series, but sadly the entry for "gerbilling" just had a picture of a boring old gerbil on it.

I dunno if this is "details" so much as "the whole damn entry is WTF":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahogany_%28band%29

References:

also known as "bands should really not write their own wikipedia articles" and "jesus christ these guys are capable of incredible pretentiousness"

Haha I know right! I thoguht I had the wrong article for half of it.

im guessing they're joking with that.

it's not out of character

rip wikipedia

If you hit "escape" before the blat screen comes up, page is yours.

^ scab

They made it like that for a reason, I'm sure.

whatever helps you sleep at night

what's the cheat code to bring back the picture of that contributor girl with 18000 edits?

+ phone number plz

Nick Drake is the featured article on blackout day. Still being snubbed after all these years.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzcrtxnzC1qzs5cqo1_1280.png

black day / black dog

That 'Esc' trick doesn't work on IE, which is what I'm stuck with at work. What browser are you using?

i was going to say it's bad move on wikipedia really now everybody realises the world goes on perfectly fine without it

xxpost

jon: just click on "Stop" instead?

works on IE8 and chrome

Hmmm, isn't working on IE9.

If you disable styling in your browser (Yay, Opera!!) you can still see Wikipedia. Woulda thought they would have taken down the content or severed a link to the database, or something..

you have to do it reallyquick!

when the page content appears, click on the "X", before the dark bit appears.

or just use the google's cached versions if that exist?

Or disable javascript

if i knew this earlier could have spent some effort making a "wikipediareader" site as well that can just strip out the codes from wikipedia pages and then churns out the contents.

IT WOULD BE IRONIC