This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

In all cases when Sterling emphasizes the word "the," as is one of his signatures, he uses not the long ē ("thee") but the schwa ə ("thuh").

From the article on "Harry Braff" by the Bee Gees:

The song's story was a driver who was a winner of the race as Barry explains, "It's nice to come up with things that give people pictures. For about a week afterwards Robin walked around with a helmet with goggles on. He really did! And in those days you could. You could literally wear anything, 'cause the flower power thing had taken over and whatever you were wearing was just fine. I remember standing in a lift dressed as a priest and Eric Clapton was dressed as a cowboy cause that was his Western time. You would just look at each other and not say anything like it was just fine".

South Redondo is a bit more on the gentrified, quiet side. Its wide streets, wide sand beaches and laid-back feel make it a prime destination for those seeking a "bike to the grocery store" community. Several close-knit neighborhoods exist; South Broadway hosts street parties in the summer where children play on jumping gyms and the local Fire Department judges the best dessert contest while kids climb their pumper truck.

Is that on the Patti Smith page?

Not yet.

While doing some research for the king of research thread, this tickled me:

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

He is the son of Hervé and Anne Hoppenot. Hervé Hoppenot is the President of Novartis Oncology. He's friends with Mike.

Modern critics like Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusiclike to rewrite history and create an alternate universe where this album was shunned and considered a failure. In fact, contemporary critics raved about Who Do We Think We Are! and magazines like Circus, Circus Raves and Hit Parader all had glowing reviews for it. How big was it? It sold 500,000 copies between February 1973 and April 11th, 1973 in the US alone! Certified gold with half a million records and tapes sold in two months. (For an example of how good that is, the legendary Machine Head was released in March 1972 and wasn't certified gold until November 1972, EIGHT MONTHS LATER... "Other classic Deep Purple albums" spent much more time than that. Deep Purple In Rock was released in August 1970. It was certified gold July 27th, 2001. Fireball was released in July 1971 and certified gold in July 2001. Who Do We Think We Are! was an immediate fan favorite and radio followed suite. Woman from Tokyo received heavy airplay, along with Rat Bat Blue, Smooth Dancer and Our Lady. Fans were quick to point out the thundering production, the aggressive playing and the overall heaviness of the record. This WAS Deep Purple and a mighty fine one at that. Years later, the revisionists would get involved and turn a great album into a failure and the band themselves do it no favors whatsoever.

^^^ one of my fav things is partisan fans rewriting wiki pages so they're filled with typo-laden opinion

lol awesome

It's funny, I was just playing "Rat Bat Blue" to myself on my harmonium, just now.

The physics of Weebles:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Weebleprinciple.jpg

One of numerous obscure cultural references present in Midway's video game Mortal Kombat 3 was a lo-res image of Frankie Avalon's face that would dart up in the lower right-hand corner of the screen when Goro killed his opponent by knocking him into the spike pit on the Bridge level.

He has a tattoo which says in French "My life, my menstruation" instead of "My life, my rules".[57]

Rock was the subject of a well-known Irish catchphrase—"spit on me Dickie", the origin of this being that rebellious young women in the 1960s wanted to be covered in his saliva in a manner similar to American women idolising the hips of Elvis. The phrase took off in Belfast in the 1960s and spread all over Ireland.

In 2008, an anonymous employee of the stricken financial company Anglo Irish Bank made lewd comments about Dickie Rock on this Wikipedia page. The bank launched an investigation into how this had happened and the incident was reported in the Irish media some months later. Rock himself commented on the incident.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Franz_Joseph_II,_Prince_of_Liechtenstein

check "Where do the Batliner's fit in?" I am tempted to reply with some kind of Nigerian spam parody. ("hi, first of all I must urge you to require strict confidence, I am dr blabla from Vaduz, and...") (i.e. I have a million Swiss francs waiting for you)

There are only too many occasions on which a child is slighted, or at least feels he has been slighted, on which he feels he is not receiving the whole of his parents’ love, and, most of all, on which he feels regrets at having to share it with his brothers and sisters. His sense that his own affection is not being fully reciprocated then finds a vent in the idea, which is often consciously recollected from early childhood, of being a step-child or an adopted child. . . .

The latter stage in the development of the neurotic’s estrangement from his parents, begun in this manner, might be described as “the neurotic's family romance.”

http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/archive/FreudFR.htm

disappointingly wikipedia doesn't seem to have a family romance / adoption fantasy article

One letter received by the production team before the transmission of episode five came from a woman in Haverfordwest who was concerned that she would never find out what happened in the end as the week before the final episode's transmission she was due to move to Ireland to spend the rest of her life in a convent; she wondered if the BBC could possibly write to her and let her know how the story resolved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_II#Reception_and_influence

Sorry, should supply the conclusion in case any of you are moving to a convent:

After some debate as to whether the letter was a journalistic trick to uncover advance story details, Kneale eventually decided that it was genuine, and allowed Cartier to send a reply outlining the storyline's conclusion.

... State statutes typically provide automatic or "default" rules for how an LLC will be governed unless the operating agreement provides otherwise.

Similarly, the phrase “unless otherwise provided for in the by laws” is also found in all corporation law statutes but often refers only to a narrower range of matters. Always use protection.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Fat_Liar#Plot

In the epilogue, Big Fat Liar is later reproduced and shown in movie theatres across the United States by utilizing the talents and skills of all those whom Wolf had abused. During the film's closing credits, Jason is credited of writing his original story and Ms. Caldwell is impressed and very proud of him. Meanwhile, Wolf declares bankruptcy and begins his new job as a clown, where he is assigned to entertain the son of the Masher, whom he had insulted earlier. Recognizing Wolf, the Masher orders his son: "Yo, Little Mash, show him your nutcracker!", a newly learned prizefighting technique as a means of avenging the earlier offense. The Masher's son delivers a flying kick to Wolf's groin, and Wolf's eyes dilate and rotate.

the whole plot sounds amazing, but:

Guided by Jason, Wolf makes a successful presentation which convinces Chris Ott (Shandra Duncan) to green-light Big Fat Liar and warning him should any little mishap occur, funding for the film will be withdrawn and his career will be over.

it's alright, Chris has got a big salary and bennies

this entire thing
is there a movie about this guy's life yet!? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Patrick

they called him BLACK LIGHTNING

I remember that movie. Does the Wikipedia page mention that Amanda Bynes and Frankie Muniz used Cybiko devices to text each other during the movie?

"Funkytown" is a 1980 disco hit song written by Steven Greenberg and performed by the band Lipps Inc. with Cynthia Johnson as the lead singer. The song expresses the singer's pining for a metaphorical place that will "keep me movin', keeps me groovin' with some energy". It is said that the song was written while the band lived in Minneapolis, MN with dreams of moving to Carlisle, Cumbria.[3]

Frost was born in Islington, London[2] to psychedelic artist David Vaughan, who worked for the Beatles, and his then-16-year-old muse, actress Mary Davidson.[1]

She has described her childhood as a "chaotic but positive experience,"[1] as she was born in Islington but spent much of her youth in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire after her parents separated. Her parents had six relationships between them, which gave her 4 sisters and 5 brothers, including fellow actresses Holly Davidson and Jade Davidson; primary school teacher Jessi Frost, brothers called Gabriel Jupiter and Tobias Vaughan; and a sister named Sunshine Purple Tara Velvet.[3] One of Frost's stepfathers - the rock photographer Robert Davidson - was a follower of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult, who forbade the children to say the words “No” or “Sorry”; during her father's colour-therapy phase, he insisted that everybody in the house wear orange and he wouldn’t let them eat anything that was red. They also had to take showers wearing tracksuits, and they were forced to refer to objects as the most opposite they could think of as a test of character, for example calling apples elephants.[1]

http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Mats_Mangelr%C3%B8d_Johannesen_%28deleted_08_Apr_2008_at_21:48%29

http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Lev_Kuznetsov_%28deleted_14_May_2008_at_20:43%29

http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Facial_hair_calender_%28deleted_06_Jun_2008_at_17:36%29

No Movember?

Nope, it's "Neck Beard November" from now on...

She has starred in many other films such as Okul, Ayakta Kal, Selena, Lise Defteri, Dunyayi Kurtaran Adam and Nefes Nefes'e. She starred in Romantik Komedi, released in February 2010.[1]

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

The whole page is obviously written by the band's biggest fan (the leader of same), but especially for:

Albums

In August 2010 Tad Friend wrote a piece in The New Yorker about Lurie disappearing from New York to avoid a man named John Perry, whom Friend said was stalking Lurie. In the online literary magazine The Rumpus, Rick Moody noted that Friend's profile in The New Yorker, nominally about Lurie and his art, was two-thirds to three-quarters about Perry, including a full page photo of Perry standing in front of one of his own paintings. Moody confirmed that Lurie was very ill with chronic Lyme disease, and described Perry as a deceitful stalker capable of violence.

In May 2011 Perry undertook a public hunger strike to protest The New Yorker characterizing him as a stalker. Commenting about the protest, Lurie said "He's conducting a hunger strike a half block from my house to prove he's not a stalker." Lurie described the article as "wildly inaccurate," noting that its publication did not resolve anything, and that "the situation continues."

In numismatics, he is strongly believed to have stolen coins from the American Numismatic Society's Clapp collection of large cents while studying the ANS coins for his famed book, "Penny Whimsey." (He switched them out with lower-grade specimens from his own set.) Later, when entrusted with the collection of a dying man (James Clarke), he found some coins in the Clarke collection that were better than those he had stolen from Clapp, so he pulled the switcheroo again, taking the Clarke coins for himself, and putting the stolen Clapp coins back into the dying Clarke's collection. When Clarke died, Roy Naftzger bought his collection, and thus unknowingly got some of the ANS coins. Ironically, years later Naftzger also bought Sheldon's collection, which thus contained coins stolen from the ANS ex Clapp, as well as coins stolen from Clarke. The ANS was left with Sheldon's inferior coins, and in the end, Naftzger likely ended up with most of the ANS coins, including the lesser coins that Sheldon had double-switched back into the Clarke collection !! (For his part, Naftzger apparently knew of Sheldon's foul play, yet he refused to give up the stolen property, and ended up being sued by the ANS. He lost.)[8]

the entry for 18yo duke freshman jabari parker, who has yet to play a college basketball game, has 320 reference notes

Busey appeared in the 2006 Turkish nationalist film Valley of the Wolves: Iraq, (Kurtlar Vadisi: Irak, in Turkish). The film, accused of fascism, anti-Americanism[9] and anti-Semitism,[10] tells the story of the U.S. Army run amok in Iraq and brought into check by a Turkish soldier; Busey plays a Jewish-American Army doctor who harvests fresh organs from injured Iraqi prisoners to sell to rich patients in New York City, London and Tel Aviv.

I'm very familiar with both The Bus Tapes and Seinfeld, and yet I never made the connection:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Rich#The_Bus_Tapes

Rich's temper, mercurial attitude, and imposing personality were documented in secret recordings that pianist Lee Musiker made during some of his tantrums on tour buses and backstage in the early 1980s.[22] These recordings, long circulated in bootleg form, have done much to fuel the reputation of Rich's personality. The tapes were popular with comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, who used three quotes from them more or less verbatim on Seinfeld:[23]

"If I have to tell you again, we're gonna take it outside and I'm gonna show you what it's like!" ("The Opposite")
"This guy – this is not my kind of guy." ("The Understudy")
"Then let's see how he does, up there, without all the assistance!" ("The Butter Shave")

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Libya_Flag_Constitutional_Construction.svg/745px-Libya_Flag_Constitutional_Construction.svg.png

His sixth single, the half-spoken love song "Really Free" reached number 27 in the UK Singles Chart in 1977.[2] It would be his greatest success for some time and consequently is still easy to track down on the second-hand market. Much scarcer is the picture cover which was only present on a small proportion of the singles. Rarer still, and almost impossible to find, is the advertising sleeve, a die-cut thin paper sleeve printed with an advert for the debut album, snippets of newspaper and magazine reviews and a cut-out "Really Free" body sticker.

Potts auditioned for Simon Cowell's new talent show Britain's Got Talent at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff on 17 March 2007. The audition was televised on ITV in the UK on 9 June 2007.[12] Potts sang the full rendition of Giacomo Puccini's "Nessun dorma", which was condensed for broadcast. His rendition of the song brought looks of awe from the judges, including Simon Cowell, an example of emotional contagion. Potts received a standing ovation from the audience of 2,000 people. The YouTube video clip from the show has had more than 105 million views, making it one of the top 100 most watched YouTube videos.

Whoever made that edit is my hero. The link on "emotional contagion" and all.

Does *that* page link back to the Paul Potts one?

unusual phraseology in Wikipedia articles

Music and lyrics
"Disco Mystic" is indeed played in a disco style

<*)))-{ ><(((*> ><>	Fish, something's fishy,[6] Christian fish[4]

Mayor of Toronto[edit]

In 2012, he campaigned to become the Mayor of Toronto, Canada. His slogan was Yes We Canseco, a play on Barack Obama's Yes We Can slogan from the 2008 US Presidential Election. Canseco is not a Canadian citizen, so he's not permitted to become the mayor of a Canadian city.

Almost all protocols give back slaps as a technique to be used before potentially damaging interventions such as abdominal thrusts.[7][8] Henry Heimlich, noted for promulgating abdominal thrusts, claimed that back slaps were proven to cause death by lodging foreign objects into the windpipe.[9] The 1982 Yale study by Day, DuBois, and Crelin that "persuaded the American Heart Association to stop recommending back blows for dealing with choking...was partially funded by Heimlich's own foundation."[10] According to Roger White MD of the Mayo Clinic and American Heart Association (AHA), "There was never any science here. Heimlich overpowered science all along the way with his slick tactics and intimidation, and everyone, including us at the AHA, caved in."[11]

Dr. Heimlich has advocated the use of the technique as a treatment for drowning[24] and asthma[25] attacks. The Red Cross contests his claims that the maneuver could help drowning victims and someone suffering an asthma attack. The Heimlich Institute has stopped advocating on their website for the Heimlich maneuver to be used as a first aid measure for drowning victims. His son, Peter M. Heimlich, alleges that in August 1974 his father published the first of a series of fraudulent case reports in order to promote the use of abdominal thrusts for near-drowning rescue.[26]

Heimlich is the uncle of Anson Williams, who is known for his portrayal as Warren "Potsie" Weber on the 70s hit TV show Happy Days.[7]

Rolo (pronounced "Row-low", referring to the roll-styled candy) is a brand of truncated-cone-shaped or frustum-shaped chocolates with a caramel centre, the shape resembling that of a shallow inverted bucket or tub or a traditional lampshade.