What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

[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

[ianamartin@thecanadian.social]

@babe
I just read an article bookmarked weeks ago about the CIA’s ‘Stargate Project’ involving researching the efficacy of ‘Remote Viewing’ as an Intelligence Gathering Tool.

The end result of the research, predictably, found that psychic abilities are horseshit (they didn’t use that term, the cowards). I was hoping to get more details about experiments and success rates, but it is actually mostly about the people involved, some of them former Scientologists.

Weird old gov’t programmes, eh?

[dxmacguffin@metalhead.club]

@babe

"a contemporary press account clearly shows that the community was already called "Booger Hole" at the time of the murders."

Booger Hole, West Virginia - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)