What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

[swaldman@mendeddrum.org]

@babe I used to be a big fan of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
partly because it is absurdly pointless, but mostly because the Talk page used to have a huge argument about whether the page, being a list of lists of lists (of lists), should link to itself.

Regrettably that discussion seems to have been removed.

[quixoticgeek@social.v.st]

@phil_browne @babe oh. And it's why I have cetaceanneeded.eu as my website...

[ginseng@23.social]

@babe

List of con artists - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

Including Victor Lustig "the man who sold the Eiffel Tower twice".

[adriano@lile.cl]

@babe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus because it’s very clear and at the same time I cannot but read it as a huge continuous double-entendre.

[stuartyeates@cloudisland.nz]

@swaldman @babe

As is normal for #wikipedia talk pages, discussions are archived after three months, they're accessible via the links discussing this at the top of the page.

[serebit@floss.social]

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

[klara_tag@leipzig.town]

@babe

1925 serum run to Nome - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

Because I like true stories with dogs as heros. And I like stories deifying the odds. Fund it via Wiki-Tok once.

[liferstate@mas.to]

@babe Fighting an entire war over Toledo, Ohio sounds ridiculous, but back then most Americans were drunk most of the time. Total casualties: no deaths, one injury (a teenager stabbed a sheriff in the leg).

I like to imagine that the U of Michigan-Ohio State U sports rivalry is a continuation of the war by other means.

Toledo War - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)

[notthelbcguy@mstdn.social]

@babe in a similar vein is Emperor Norton "Emperor Norton" on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton?wprov=sfti1#Declaring_himself_%22Emperor%22

[sjjh@hachyderm.io]

@babe I like these because they're examples of "it has a Wikipedia page".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bag

I liked this one about a character in a children's TV show but it seems to have gone sad face. I have screen captures.

[angrylinus@mastodon.social]

@sharif @babe
reminded me of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA

and at the very end, it's monday

[izzychambers@social.vivaldi.net]

@babe Article on Thomas Pynchon, the novelist, mostly because it's often hilarious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon

[yngmar@social.tchncs.de]

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

Keep going from there until you get to Rosemary Kennedy.

[billyjoebowers@mastodon.online]

@babe

I've probably said this before, but I love how when people respond to you it looks like "babe have you seen this?"

[babe@glitterkitten.co.uk]

@billyjoebowers I see posts on the TL sometimes which are like 'babe...' and have to check they don't mean me

[fool@brontosin.space]

@babe I see somebody already got the "List of common misconceptions" so I offer instead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterintelligence which I hope they never clean up. It reads like they just dumped excerpts from actual spy agency handbooks right into the encyclopedia.

[billyjoebowers@mastodon.online]

@babe

I often think it's the beginning of a joke, like "babe you haven't finished your..." and I sometimes stop and wonder why I don't get it.

[theplaguedoc@glitterkitten.co.uk]

@babe ....what the heck did I just read?

I kept it together until "Informer of Deer".

[surdfish@beige.party]

@babe

"he understood...the utility of 'acting the fool'"

He would have made a fine shitposter

[babe@glitterkitten.co.uk]

@theplaguedoc Fucking molasses ladles