This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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Duncan) to green-light Big Fat Liar and warning him should any little mishap occur, funding for the film will be withdrawn and his career will be over.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.

Nail problems

White had a hands-on influence on Ovation. White used to come to the factory. His fingernails were brittle and prone to cracking, a condition that got worse as he grew older. Ovation's subassembly foreman, Al Glemboski, made a cast of White's fingers, from which he made a set of fiberglass nails. White glued on these false nails with a special industrial glue called Eastman 910, which would later be marketed as Super Glue. He returned to the factory every other month for a new set of nails.

Lately, Wikipedia's editors are debating some controversies regarding a possible connection between the real island of Robinson Crusoe and "Cocos Island" (of Costa Rica).

Crusoe then teaches him English and converts him to Christianity. (Now, the several native words of Friday have been found in a Spanish-Térraba dictionary. Historic facts admit that the Térraba, a.k.a. Naso people lived and still live in Costa Rica. They were the most bellicose nation there that became Christians quickly. How did Defoe learn those "fictional" Térraba words in London in 1719? He must have had a living source, either Crusoe or Friday. Also, Robinson Crusoe is the first English book that mentions the "ironwood" or "iron tree." How did Defoe learn of it if not from Crusoe, a real Brazilian citizen? Some modern maps of Cocos Island show a whole region of "iron trees" in its interior.)

Holsapple and Cowsill divorced in 2001 and Holsapple married, in his new wife's opinion, a trophy wife.

Page edited by Holsapple's new wife.

A later iteration of the project, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Jessica Biel and Al Pacino and directed by Terry Gilliam, was set to begin production in 2009, but Thornton vetoed filming in London because of his phobia of antiques.

vetoed pacino for same reason amirite

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Srbosjek_%28knife%29_used_in_Croatia_-_1941%E2%80%931945.jpg

oh boy, lots of unusual (and gruesome) details to be had there

Huyton was immortalised in the poem by Thomas Arthur Lumley
Huyton, Huyton, Two dogs fightin’ One was a blackin and the other was a whitin
This recognised the long-standing rivalry within the area between religious factions which notably reached a nadir in the seventies with ‘end of term' fighting between opposing Roman Catholic and Church of England Schools notably St. Augustine’s of Canterbury and Seel Rd School respectively.

I'd heard of 'Two Dogs' used as rhyming slang for 'Huyton' before, but never anything about Thomas Arthur Lumley. When I google his name the only other thing that comes up is this:

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/l/u/m/Paul-Lumley/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0004.html

Does anyone here know anything about this?

Hitler(edit)

Hitler was one of the Germans detained in Huyton during World World II, as we all know, he then went on to play for Liverpool and amazingly, England.
I am astonished that this fact has been left out of the Huyton page. I will write a section and upload it later.
Many thanks,
Yazooman 82.42.211.143 16:53, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
This fella really knows his history and has taken time and a great degree of research in his quest for a true depiction of huyton and its sons, its a pity Adolf didnt drink in the eagle and child as this may have prevented the advent of world war II as im sure anyone imbibing in that hostelry with that moustache would have soon made a visit to yew tree. It would be great if he could do further research into other local legends the jam butty mine legend for instance from knotty ash's historical past would be a most interesting sojourn. good luck mate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.163.114.22 (talk) 13:12, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

All I know about the two dogs joke is that it's very similar to the Scottish guy talking about the names of James the Mason and Seamus the Cook, but ye fuck one goat...

George William Sampson (born 29 June 1993)[1] is a British street dancer and actor from Warrington.[2] He won the second series of Britain's Got Talent on 31 May 2008 at the age of 14.[3] He is an official ambassador of the United Dance Organisation.[4]

On the 6th November 2013 it was found that a Boy named River was falsely inputting information to George Sampson's Wikipedia claiming he was his cousin. Police has been contacted and a investigation is ongoing

Allison is a favorite character of the Internet Simpsons fan community and features prominently in fan-produced artwork and scripts.

Butter is a form of dary that if you eat plain it can make you fat. It is a food that if you are over 360 lb. you should not eat.

On 4 April 1876 the entire Uppingham School in Rutland, England, consisting of 300 boys, 30 masters and their families, moved to Borth for a period of 14 months, taking over the disused Cambrian Hotel and a large number of boarding houses, to avoid a typhoid epidemic.