This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more

Is it still possible to access Wikipedia in any way?
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so not too difficult to get around. I don't get why they don't just put a "click here to go to your article" link after their anti-SOPA message.

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

― ERIC CANONTA FOR PRESIDETN! (onimo), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 13:06 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Its killing me to know that now!

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:24 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:20 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 15:22 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/301365_10150375349393781_39393223780_9143351_1287032696_n.jpg

What a wily old dog Mr Sigerttson was to use that line.

During the time of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the couple took part of a union and had the unborn child blessed in a Zulu ceremony, which took place in the Illovo suburb of South Africa.[32] Keys and Swizz Beatz held a wedding celebration on the French island of Corsica on July 31, 2010. Most attendees agreed that Beatz did very well for himself.[33]

the Illovo suburb of South Africa

wat

Most attendees agreed that Beatz did very well for himself.

lmao

Fireman Sam lives in a two-story house with several windows, a red door and the small bell at outside. It is at 3 Vale Road and contains seldom seen rooms:

Hall: The hall has a big shelf, a very large hanger, and a big mirror on the wall. The walls are yellow. There are also the stairs, which connect the ground floor with first floor...

(goes on to detail each room in the cartoon series...)

Connie Nielsen
File:ConnieNielsen09TIFF.jpg erection
Nielsen at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival

Other ex-boxers have been said to have had dementia pugilistica when in fact they suffer from nothing worse than a working-class accent and a gruff demeanor, e.g. Rocky Graziano, Tony Zale.

Title is a British slang phrase gleaned by Dolenz from television, likely the UK sitcom Til Death Us Do Part; it roughly translates as "lustful fool from Liverpool" (Wiktionary: randy, Scouse, git) (though in fact, to call someone a "git" in Britain is the equivalent of "jerk" or "prat"). In the series the word was aimed by Alf Garnett at his son-in-law, played by *Tony Booth, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's father-in-law.*

They were decades ahead of their time in making their players train to improve not only their footballing skills, but also their stamina and strength - which in the harsh Scottish winters gave them often the edge against their opponents. The mastermind was Peter 'Big Pate' Campbell, who also insisted on his players drinking “chicken bree”, the ingredients believed to be a disgusting combination of port wine mixed in with eggs!

Big Pate

In the summer of 2008 Pirner, in one of his last pubic appearances, was spotted outside a club in Kansas City being mobbed by fans who could still recognize his handsome good-looks. He gave autographs and sang "Runaway Train" A cappella.

that reads as if he's now dead

Might as well be.

now now

pubic

During 2011, Jentina was the judging panel for "Travellers Got Talent"[8], she also appeared in the 8 part documentary "A Gypsy's Life For Me" which aired on Bio in November 2011[9].

Currently Jentina is keeping a low profile, and raising a family.

Fair use rationale for inclusion in Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell

• Low resolution copy of the album cover.
• Does not limit the value of the text.
• No free alternative available or could be created.
• The cover is critically discussed in the article: Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell#Cover
• Words cannot fully express the complexity and symbolism of the image.

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

Personal life

McCall was married with a son until his wife left him due to lesbianism. McCall is currently writing an autobiography titled "Water way to live"

oh, that lesbianism

presumably this one will get corrected by an editor as some point, but it gave me a lol when I ran across it

When the Savoy Ballroom opened in November 2,000 B.C, one of the worst attractions was the Savoy Big Five, a basketball team that played exhibitions before dances.

ok i just thought of a thread i am too bored to start.. pages on wikipedia that are unexpectedly (unusually) short

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

i really expected a prog marathon of words there

Apparently there's no thread for absurdly over-detailed wiki pages either. That amazing page about toilet paper orientation would be on it. I also like the entries on the different seasons of Top Chef, each with a color-coded chart indicating "contestant progress" and descriptions of every single dish prepared in each round.

xpost it's not that short...

hmm looked shorter yesterday

j/k (you're right)

i dunno, i expected someone to have put in a LOT of work in that page, some Wyatt-uberfan, while this looks like a lot of 'recent activities' stuff and a copy and paste list from collabs and so on

Apparently there's no thread for absurdly over-detailed wiki pages either. That amazing page about toilet paper orientation would be on it. I also like the entries on the different seasons of Top Chef, each with a color-coded chart indicating "contestant progress" and descriptions of every single dish prepared in each round.

fwiw, I think all contestant elimination driven reality show wiki pages are like this now

You'd be surprised how many people still don't get where the content of Wikipedia comes from. One of my friends runs a very good fan site for a famous illustrator he's close to and several people told *him* that the Wikipedia article should link to his site or use some of its material, then he asked someone he knew who works at Wikimedia if they could get it onto the page.

Slutsky's playing career was ended at just 19. He retired due to a knee injury, an injury sustained after falling out of a tree to rescue a neighbour's cat, Fluffy.[1]

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beats_By_the_Pound:

Beats by the Pound were so anonymous that if you Google or Yahoo Image search them, you can barely find a photo of KLC, Mo B. Dick, Craig B, Odell posing together.[citation needed] Master P knew this. The less fame you accrue, the less you have to be paid. So he created the first rap assembly line. Granted, Diddy had his northern men The Hitmen (production team), but The Medicine Men from New Orleans cranked out beats so fast that there was barely time to call Dave Mays to take out ads.[citation needed] I mean, who do you think produced Down South Hustlers: Bouncin' and Swingin', Ice Cream Man, Tru 2 da Game, Ghetto D, West Coast Bad Boyz II, There's One in Every Family, Gangsta Harmony?.[citation needed] Also because of Voodoo & Blacklisting from Master P, The Medicine Men aka Beats By The Pound never got recognize real well after leaving No Limit Records back in 1999!.[citation needed]

lol

ha that is classic

lol[citation needed]

The "Boo-Yaa" in their name signifies the sound of a shotgun being discharged, while the "T.R.I.B.E." stands for "Too Rough International Boo-Yaa Empire."

Dennis Haskins page: "In his personal life, Dennis' attire frequently consist of wearing a scarf as a fashion accessory.[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lewis_(comedian)

Lewis is noted for always wearing an all-black outfit.[10] During his routines, he commonly places his right hand on his forehead, then stretches it outward as he makes his point. He also performs with long pieces of paper with notes on them, refers to the notes, then extemporaneously delivers his material. He has also performed drinking out of a New York Jets mug instead of a plain water bottle.

Slutsky's playing career was ended at just 19. He retired due to a knee injury, an injury sustained after falling out of a tree to rescue a neighbour's cat, Fluffy.[1]

― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Thursday, February 23, 2012 3:12 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*spits out drink*

In 1990, the original line-up wrote and recorded the song "Free" for the soundtrack to the movie Flashback. This would be the final song written with the original lineup, as the band would dissolve shortly after. Interesting note... "Bottom Line" from the first lp was remixed and used as the title track for "Flashback." However this track was not included on the soundtrack. It can be found on the 12" or by possible download.

somewhere a BAD I fan is crying with joy

The city has a local music scene dominated by hip hop, blues, rock and roll, punk, Deathcore. horrorcore, and indie groups.

Jonathan Brandis wore baseball jerseys during the first season, including one for the Florida Marlins that noted they had won the World Series in 2010. The Marlins were an expansion team that played for the first time in 1993, the same year that seaQuest DSV began production. Florida did go on to win the 1997 and 2003 World Series, but the real-life 2010 World Series was eventually won by the San Francisco Giants.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f0/Marilyn_Manson_-_Mechanical_Animals_cover_%281998%29.jpg/220px-Marilyn_Manson_-_Mechanical_Animals_cover_%281998%29.jpg

Manson has stated in interviews that his friend, actor Johnny Depp, is the current owner of these prosthetic breasts which Manson traded for Depp's strawberry-blonde wig worn in the film Blow.

Manson otm

By October 22, 2009 most publications were indicating that a final decision had been reached and, barring a last minute pardon from Governor Paterson, Shyne would be deported back to Belize.[52] Shyne was deported back to Belize on Wednesday October 28, 2009 though he continued to fight for residency in the United States.
He is now living in Jerusalem as an Orthodox Jew under his new name, Moses Levi. He reportedly spends his time learning the Torah and is planning a comeback of biblical proportions .[53][54][55]

hahahhaahahaha

Lil Scrappy was performing at a concert in a high school gym in Orlando. During the concert, the crowd were really getting pumped and excited by the music, then the local police stepped in. They gave Scrappy a warning, because he took his shirt off (which made female fans even more aggressive).

from the Hal Sparks wiki:

In 2010 Sparks became a real-life hero when, for the third time in his life, his life-saving CPR skills helped resuscitate an unconscious, elderly man at the Los Angeles International Airport.

Either this is horribly written, or Sparks spends a worrying amount of time hanging out with the elderly at the Los Angeles International Airport.

Sometime in 2006, Bloodhound Gang launched a campaign to have the Pennsylvania state anthem changed to their song, "Pennsylvania". The outcome is unknown.

In "Can The Subaltern Speak", Spivak discusses the race and power dynamics involved in the banning of sati. Spivak writes that all we hear about sati are accounts (by British colonizers or Hindu leaders) of what sati meant to, or how it oppressed, women, but we never hear from the sati-performing women themselves -- thus the subaltern cannot speak.[citation needed] Some critics,[who?] however, say that the sati-performing women cannot speak because they die in the practice of ritual suicide.[citation needed]

I always like scrolling through the articles for each day, like 'March 14', to see famous events, births, deaths. Anyway, it appears that this day back in 1985 was big for giving birth to future female porn stars. These are all the famous birthdays from March 14, 1985:

1985 – Eva Angelina, American pornographic actress
1985 – Idaira, Spanish singer
1985 – Brianna Love, American pornographic actress
1985 – Ariel Rebel, Canadian pornographic actress