What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

[trashheap@tech.lgbt]

@babe My favorite is already listed by another (The list of unusuald deaths), so ill mention my runner up "list of obsolete occupations". There are some startling ones that wouldn't immediately occur, because we're so far removed from the historical/cultural context.

List of obsolete occupations - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[alwirtes@indieweb.social]

@babe @nora How about the time the state of Indiana tried to change the value of pi through legislation?

Indiana pi bill - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[humanfish@mastodon.social]

@babe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godolphin_Arabian
I'm just amazed that people decided that 3 relatively random horses (their histories aren't that clear) were the most Horse horses and that any and all horses not related to them are somehow less Horse. Also, seemingly there was an ~80 year span during which other very Horse horses could be defined but that was the limit. That's a link to the article that started it all for me.

I am not a horse person, so this might be obvious to others but it seems absurd to me.

[vt52@ioc.exchange]

@babe

List of civilian radiation accidents - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

or maybe

Panmunjom axe murder incident - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

or...

List of enclaves and exclaves - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[vt52@ioc.exchange]

@humanfish @babe don't forget:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoooooooo

[benji@corteximplant.com]

@babe I keep a list of some of my favorite pages on my site: https://benji.dog/wikipedia but one that I usually share as a fun fact is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees

[royhorace@mast.lat]

@babe a weird case of a spanish page not having even a english analogous. This is a list of all the placed mentioned in all of Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's LOEG
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Mundo_de_The_League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen

[bigheadmode@social.linux.pizza]

@babe Especially if you were raised Christian:

the Synoptic Problem has flummoxed philosophers/Christians for centuries.

Synoptic Gospels - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[rosenbergite@petrous.vislae.town]

@babe @nora One of my standbys.

The KLF - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[keawade@hachyderm.io]

@babe @catsalad one of my favorites is the page for the fish species, black neon tetras. Specifically the sub section documenting how at one point one of them committed credit card fraud with a Nintendo Switch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_neon_tetra

[retech@corteximplant.com]

@babe Bell's Theorem. Quantum inequality. Planck space. Spooky Attraction at a Distance.

[lukeharby@infosec.exchange]

@greem @babe

Ouch

[soundclamp@mastodon.xyz]

@babe @stib https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frank

[grandefelice@mastodon.nu]

@solderandchaos @babe that's the one I usually recommend as well!

[sambeaven@toot.wales]

@babe it’s so cool!blew my mind so much when I first read it that I wrote a novel about it

[mym@toot.cat]

@babe not ranking things at the moment but had a good dive tonight from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivering_Sands_Army_Fort and into the history of UK pirate radio, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine,_%26c.,_Broadcasting_(Offences)_Act_1967

[greatjoe@nyan.network]

@babe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_citrus_soft_drinks

[mack505@feistycricket.org]

@babe He’s a local celebrity! I drive by his house weekly.

He has an industrial park named for him now. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Newburyport,_Massachusetts&wprov=rarw1

[babe@glitterkitten.co.uk]

Sorry I haven't replied to a lot of people in this but thank you so much for sharing everything you have. These sure are some rabbit holes

And holy shit at the dude who survived a proton beam from a collider going through his head?!?! 'the fuck

[nicovel0@mastodon.social]

@babe there’s also the guy who survived an iron bar going through his head https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
But my favourite is the Canadian who was shot in the stomach and didn’t heal properly, allowing for some of the earliest experiments on human digestion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_St._Martin