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One of the joys of living in the digital age is that we have a wealth of information at our fingertips. Gone are the days of traipsing to the nearest library, or paging through an old encyclopedia, to discover the who, what, when, where and hows of the world.
Wikipedia has become a favorite go-to for knowledge seekers. The page describes itself as “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit,” and we just need to stress that *anyone* is the operative word. Among the more than 7 million articles, you’ll find some super interesting entries. But you might also come across a few ridiculously funny things that could easily have been crafted by comedians.
There's an Instagram account that highlights these hilarious Wiki entries. It's called Depths of Wikipedia and has more than 1.5 million followers. As the bio aptly states, "Wikipedia is weird!" and we would have to agree. Bored Panda has put together our favorite posts from the page. They're proof that learning something new doesn't always have to be serious, and sometimes facts can come with a side serving of funny.
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Jerome Lenovo 7 months ago
its like having the same name as the german mustache n4zi from 1939
XenoMurph 7 months ago
We should just swap them and pretend nothing changed. Most people would just accept it and say nothing, apart from one demographic.... Americans.
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Marc Dennler 7 months ago
He must be the Greatest, the biggest and the Best Oncologist in the History of Medicine.
Riley Quinn 7 months ago (edited)
Don't you just hate it when a scumb@g sullies your name by having the same one?
nottheactualphoto 7 months ago
Why should I change my name? I'm not the one who sucks!
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More than 120 million people use Wikipedia as a way to find out more about the world we live in. Wikipedia describes itself as a "free online encyclopedia that is written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and the wiki software MediaWiki."
While much of the site's information is reliable, some isn't. And Wikipedia has come under fire in the past for some of the stuff it has published. "Although Wikipedia's volunteer editors have written extensively on a wide variety of topics, the encyclopedia has been criticized for systemic bias, such as a gender bias against women and geographical bias against the Global South (Eurocentrism)," reads a Wikipedia entry.
The same article states that unlike traditional encyclopedias, Wikipedia follows the "procrastination principle" regarding the security of its content, meaning that it waits until a problem arises to fix it.
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Lotekguy 7 months ago
There are much worse descriptions of Congresspersons than being bitten by a rabid fox. Many of them act like one.
BookFanatic 7 months ago
TBF, a rabid fox probably wouldn't do much worse than the current US leaders.
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Piwakawaka 7 months ago
If it was rabid, and he didn't get treatment before it showed signs, wouldn't he have died? Or can you get bitten by a rabid animal and not contract rabies? Genuine question.
Kalikima 7 months ago
He probably got treatment right away, and they're just guessing it was rabid by the way it was acting..
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Riley Quinn 7 months ago (edited)
Ashamed that people know you were bitten by a rabid fox?? Being a Republican politician should be far more humiliating. Like when you posted that video of the Green Zone in Bagdad, you moron.
Upstaged75 7 months ago
Poor fox. God only knows what it caught from biting him. It's quite strange that there was a fox in that area to begin with. He was in the middle of the city. Maybe the fox just hates Republicans too?
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Riley Quinn 7 months ago
Newman deserves more than the annual satirical Ig Nobel Prize for this revealing information. Granted, I think many of us knew these supercentenarians were a figment of the imagination, but he proved it.
Floeckchen 7 months ago (edited)
Is this a genuine question or are you trolling?
Load More Replies...The Wikipedia community is based on a limited number of standard principles, notes Britannica.com. "One important principle is neutrality. Another is the faith that contributors are participating in a sincere and deliberate fashion," reads that site, adding that readers can correct what they perceive to be errors, and disputes over facts and over possible bias are conducted through contributor discussions.
Britannica adds that the other guiding principles are to keep within the defined parameters of an encyclopedia, to respect copyright laws, and to consider any other rules to be flexible. "The last principle reinforces the project’s belief that the open-source process will make Wikipedia the best product available, given its community of users," notes Britannica.
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superfluous 7 months ago
Ya know him claiming to have died and reanimated isn't helping me believe in his sanity. Being an evangelist is the icing on the I don't f*****g believe he's sane cake.
Richienotsorich 7 months ago
This...when David Icke proclaimed himself Son of God, we all laughed at him. Should someone claim they've been 'reanimated', they'll be crucified (pun intended) in the media!
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Tucker Cahooter 7 months ago
Unfortunately I have had to deal with public servants who use the same logic to waste taxpayers' money
David 7 months ago
There is an old political saying that doing something is better than nothing even if that something is wrong, because people want to see action more than results. Sadly its true, so many problems would fix themselves with minimal or no action, because the system has failsafes in place, but the public panics, so politicians do things to keep the masses happy, while making things worse.
superfluous 7 months ago (edited)
The purpose of politicians is to pass laws. Any laws. Too many laws. There should be a law that for every new law they drag home, one old one must be given or thrown away! I hate when my state rep. boasts about the laws he has backed or sponsored or passed! I email him back that they need to get rid of the outdated/useless ones. (He has never replied. I don't think anyone monitors his email address - one way communication only!)
Michael Largey 7 months ago
You might pass along this quote from Cicero to your state rep. “The more laws a society has, the less justice.”
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Ha ha ha ha ha... That's me laughing at the oxymoron "politician's logic". As if. Politicians are after wealth and power, not using logic.
One of the issues Wikipedia faces is what it calls "vandalism." The site describes this as any change that deliberately compromises Wikipedia's integrity. "The most common and obvious types of vandalism include additions of obscenities and crude humor; it can also include advertising and other types of spam," reads a Wiki entry.
It adds that editors can sometimes commit vandalism by removing content or entirely blanking a given page. But less common types of vandalism, like the deliberate addition of "plausible but false information," can be more difficult to detect.
Vandals can also introduce irrelevant formatting, modify page semantics such as the page's title or categorization, manipulate the article's underlying code, or use images disruptively, notes Wikipedia.
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As we mentioned earlier, Wikipedia encourages anyone to write or edit for them. As you might know, you do not have to log in to the site to read Wikipedia, nor do you have to log in to edit Wikipedia articles.
"Just about anyone can edit almost any article at any given time, even without logging in," reads the Contributing to Wikipedia page. But the admins encourage editors to create an account and log in, saying that you'll then have the ability to create pages, upload media and edit without your IP address being visible to the public.
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Jerome Lenovo 7 months ago
happened with germany, they played the n4zi anthem. Just google " wrong german anthem played ".
Ace 7 months ago
There was no Näzi German anthem, it's still the same as it has been since 1921. The difference is that the first verse including the lines "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, Über alles in der Welt!" is no longer used.
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superfluous 7 months ago
Didn't seem to stop them from making a record of it
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JB 7 months ago (edited)
I'm not a scientist, but I remember skating on frozen lakes and ponds in the winter and you can't do that now. I'm not a scientist, but growing up we didn't have air advisory warnings due to forest fires for weeks at a time every summer. I'm not a scientist, but I can see that water levels have dropped significantly in every major reservoir and river system in Western North America. I'm not a scientist, but I have seen the year markers of the Columbia ice sheet and the way they keep getting further and further apart. I'm not a scientist, but the kids in Nunavut when I was up there back in 2006 were scared of bees because they had never seen them before. ...like how much more f*****g evidence do you need?!
Bob Brooce 7 months ago
And yet so many of them are certain that a snowball is proof that the Earth isn't getting warmer.
Michael Largey 7 months ago
We must concede that it is rare for an American politician to make an assertion and then immediately follow it up with so much persuative evidence of that claim.
SchadenFreudian Psychology 7 months ago
But apparently the ones who make laws about women’s bodies are gynecologists and obstetricians. 🤬
Riley Quinn 7 months ago
No one thinks Republican politicians are scientists, but this fact doesn't stop them from announcing the obvious. But you don't have to be a scientist to know that humans have overpopulated the Earth and are continuing to destroy it. Doubling down on stupidity is what Republicans are good it, again proving they aren't scientists.
nottheactualphoto 7 months ago
I fondly remember a time when I thought Nixon was the "worst ever."
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Jaya 7 months ago
He did a press release to explain the joke: "The cartoon was intended to be an exercise in silliness. While I have never met a cow who could make tools, I felt sure that if I did, they (the tools) would lack something in sophistication and resemble the sorry specimens shown in this cartoon. I regret that my fondness for cows, combined with an overactive imagination, may have carried me beyond what is comprehensible to the average Far Side reader."
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Bob Brooce 7 months ago
No doubt submitted by the guy who submitted this one. untitled-6...0174f9.jpg 
Michael Largey 7 months ago
Bagpipes have been known to produce a wide variety of reactions, but indifference has never been one of them.
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Mreoww 7 months ago
No, a person apparently called Guy Standing is sitting on a chair.
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Riley Quinn 7 months ago
I studied maths, and a slashed zero denotes the empty set or void set, a unique set having no elements. It's referred to as the null sign. BTW, that was a long definition for zero. lol
Rali Meyer 7 months ago
Os in vehicle chassis numbers are omitted. Unlike 0s (zeros). Or was it the other way around..?
If you're considering contributing to Wikipedia, the topic of your article will need to be notable. "It must have in-depth coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the topic," explains the site. "Make sure there isn't already an article about the topic. The article you write must include citations to the sources you used."
They also advise that you use your own words to write the article and do not just copy from sources word-for-word.
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Tucker Cahooter 7 months ago
Just like the Reserve Bank of Australia, which is really the main one
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Emilu 7 months ago
I have a handbag that has a face. And our work hand-dryers have faces. And my mother's car. And...😆
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Phantom Phoenix 7 months ago
I don't know the guy, but from what I've read about Donald L. ("Skip") Trump (all of which is in this article), he seems like a decent bloke
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Bob Brooce 7 months ago
What if the nuclear radiation causes them to mutate into a normal cat?
Laura Gillette 7 months ago
I think Ray cat and Schrödinger's cat should start a support group for hypothetical cats unethically exposed to dangerous substances.
Eugene the Jeep 7 months ago
I think anyone would change appearance if there's enough radiation.
Abel 7 months ago
This idea is animal abuse . How can somebody bring the idea? It is as awful as to use animals as warfare weapons!
Bill Swallow 7 months ago (edited)
Who on earth said anything about warfare? Plenty of peacetime uses for radiation detectors (for example, detecting Bananas). Anyway, you're thousands of years late with that complaint.
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Bill Swallow 7 months ago
"I weeel not buy this record, eet is scratched!"
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Tucker Cahooter 7 months ago
I guess that is potentially a bit more useful than knowing that the pen of my uncle is on the table, which is what they taught us in high school French
BookFanatic 7 months ago
And then there's my middle school Spanish teacher, who taught us "Un burro sabe más que tú" (a donkey knows more than you do). It was an excellent insult.
BeesEelsAndPups 7 months ago
Almost as good as: "chinga tu madre, pinche pendejo" or "Vete para la puta que te pario". Sorry if the grammar is off, I am a portuguese speaker.
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Caffeinated Ape 7 months ago
For anyone who's not familiar with it, let me present "English as She Is Spoke". It was a Portuguese-English phrasebook from the 1800s, created by someone who apparently couldn't speak English and used a French-Portuguese phrasebook and an English dictionary to translate it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as_She_Is_Spoke
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Michael Largey 7 months ago
True in the sense that a ham sandwhich is better than a unicorn steak.
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Joe Methuen 7 months ago
I was thinking his nickname was a play on his last name, but given his driving record, the nickname may have originated elsewhere
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Phantom Phoenix 7 months ago
I'm sure there must exist other articles of lists that contain an entry mentioning The List of list of lists. Could someone please compile a list listing lists of articles containing an entry mentioning The List of lists of lists?
LittleTeapot 7 months ago
Should this list listing the list of lists of lists be on the list of lists of lists!
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LooseSeal's $10 Banana 7 months ago
Me spending 10 seconds trying to figure out what Internet in Georgia, USA has to do with Armenia.
Abel 7 months ago
I am european and I still have to stop to remember that Georgia is a country...
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Geoffrey Scott 7 months ago
And BTW, it is VERY expensive in the US to cut one without calling to have it flagged (excavation).
CP 7 months ago
Not unless the repair guy understands burying the line only 6 inches deep without conduit is mostly on the installer
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Jrog 7 months ago
There is a specific reason for that, studied by multiple sociologists and with a rich bibliography. The "perception of danger" is a tool used by the populist far-right parties to increase support ("The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right", prof. Jens Rydgren, Oxford University Press). Those parties actively skew the perception of the public exaggerating danger ("Cues that Matter: How Political Ads Prime Racial Attitudes During Campaigns, Nicholas A. Valentino et al, University of Michigan, 2002) and center their communication around those themes, pretending to offer (BS) solutions while actually acting in creating the "demand" ("Post-democracy, party politics and right-wing populist communication, B. Sauer et al, 2017, Univ. of Vienna). Unfortunately, this has been proven over and over to work ("Comparative analyses [...], Ceobanu, A. M., & Escandell, X., 2010; "Anxious Politics", Albertson & Gadarian, Cambridge press, 2015).
keyboardtek 7 months ago
And the left wing version that the Republican party and Trump have a plan to end Democracy and create an authoritarian regime is coming true faster than they predicted. Indeed Trump has already put in place more changes to Democracy than Putin did to Russia.
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superfluous 7 months ago
But you can hear about it so much faster and it isn't just local news. And more people spread the information through their social networks so you hear about more so it seems like it happens more.
Nix 6 months ago
Right wing ideology and the conservative christian worldview in general depend almost entirely on the sales pitch that we need them so very badly because the world is so horrible and getting worse every day. It's how they drive their voters, their pew-sitters, their donors, their missionary work, etc.
UKGrandad 7 months ago (edited)
Yes, and I don't know why you were downvoted for asking. The red line is the absolute number of homicides per year, represented by the scale on the left vertical axis, and is more than double the amount in 2015 than in 1950 (7,500/16,000). But the 2015 population was also more than double that of 1950. The blue line is the homicide *rate*, which shows the number of homicides per 100,000 population as represented by the scale on the right vertical axis; in 1950 there were 4.5 homicides per 100,000 population, in 2015 there were 5 homicides per 100,000. So higher in 2015 in absolute numbers, but taking the higher population into account the per capita homicide rate is about the same as in 1950.
Load More Replies... Jerome Lenovo 7 months ago
thats what the goebbels style media preaches, sheeps swallow everything
General Anaesthesia 7 months ago
"Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth" - NatC (Nationalist Christian) Joseph Goebbels.
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Rali Meyer 7 months ago
she couldn't predict the ROI for the next 10 years, because there was no calendar yet
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Caffeinated Ape 7 months ago
As a poetic soul, it was simply weeping at the sublime natural beauty of a butterfly in flight.
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Michael Largey 7 months ago
He's the French guy dressed in striped Breton shirt and beret, riding a bicycle hung with onions.
Load More Replies... Boris Long-Johnson 7 months ago
As a Scotsman I’d rather have the auld allies than our current neighbours to the south!
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Abel 7 months ago
The problem with english people is when they decide to make tourism. Most of them act like drunk invaders. Downvote me but this is true.
Bartlet for world domination 7 months ago (edited)
Obviously if they're not woefully underdressed girls puking in the streets you wouldn't recognize them as being English, but yes. The Amsterdam solution is to anesthetize them with Dutch herbs.
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Eugene the Jeep 7 months ago
Should've asked for a couple of bottles of a juice cleanse. Who knows, it might've worked.
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Ace 7 months ago
I had forgotten that fake derivation, although it was commonly used for a while. AAMOI the French use the same word pouce to mean both inch and thumb.
Eugene the Jeep 7 months ago
Fun fact, my thumb is exactly one inch across and I wear 12 inch shoes. I'm just a standard type of guy.
#32
Regina Holt 7 months ago
The fine print says it is not to be confused with Tony Hawk, thus no skateboard. :-)
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Parmeisan 7 months ago
I wish I could give all my upvotes of the day to you
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Boris Long-Johnson 7 months ago (edited)
Human puns? As opposed to monkey puns which are much the same but with more p00 throwing.
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Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 7 months ago
This one's not that weird, it's a type of Carpet moth. A pretty cute one, too!
Doug Moyer 7 months ago
Really? The "amusing" bit is the name. You know, the 'somber' descriptor...
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Lukas (he/him, it/its) 7 months ago
While I agree with the sentiment, hasn't he already procreated?
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Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 7 months ago
Pretty! The name fits, too. And on this topic, my favorite moth camouflage technique is the one where multiple species of moths have evolved to look like bird droppings. I'm 100% serious, give it a Google. It's so funny.
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Bartlet for world domination 7 months ago
First one to make a listicle of insane censorship on BP gets my eternal upvote.
#41
Michael Largey 7 months ago
Since no definition or standard is given for what constitutes an "uninteresting number", there is no contradiction since there is no logical framework to contradict.
Rali Meyer 7 months ago
just because something is the smallest uninteresting doesn't make it interesting. Like "this is a once-off" item for sale does not mean somebody is buying it
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Michael Largey 7 months ago
The first pope, St. Peter, had a mother-in-law, so he had been married.
JB 7 months ago (edited)
Also, does it count as being sexually active for that one Pope who loved watching horses f**k? Like, he'd just stand on the balcony and laugh while his stallion went to town on some poor mare. It wasn't him being sexually active, but it kinda feels like he was, even if he wasn't, ya know?
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Remi (He/Him) 7 months ago
Oh heck, that would make someone talk for sure, but they'd be too out of it to make any sense
Jaya 7 months ago (edited)
Tórture. (The original post isn't censured, thankfully)
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Bartlet for world domination 7 months ago (edited)
Which you didn't say about the French and English stereotypes pages.
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Karl der Große 7 months ago
My mom, too. I long for the days when one of the most popular ways to lose weight was to eat candy.
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superfluous 7 months ago
1. Chain letter? 2. Sounds like they're filming Stranger in a Strange Land?
sturmwesen 7 months ago (edited)
I am pretty sure you can watch this on the black page where you check a box before entering
Michael Largey 7 months ago
Gee, suppose there was an address in that chain letter where you could send a contibution to help fight this blasphemy?
#51
Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 7 months ago
Okay so the larvae feed on a species of pine, which is why they're green. I thought it was a bark texture and I was right!
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Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 7 months ago
What's up with all the moths? Is it just because they have funny common names?
Anthony Elmore 7 months ago
I want to complain, but I do love moths, so I mean, it works for me. This list, in general, seems pretty shoddily put together... except for the large quantity of moth entries.
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MicrowaveGoddess 7 months ago (edited)
I think the censored word is "b*m" (b u m) eta: ....are you fooking kidding me?
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Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 7 months ago
Yeah, they're really nice moths, but I'm not sure either. Maybe it's the funny common names? Because there are way funnier ones, if that's the case.
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Doug Moyer 7 months ago
Way too many lame ones. It would be nice if someone actually filtered them first.
Bill Swallow 7 months ago
We do that with our voting, then BP shortens the list.
Load More Replies... UKGrandad 7 months ago
Wikipedia is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", which is why you should never blindly trust the information it contains. Always check the citations to see where the editors are getting their information from, because they are often far from reliable or unbiased sources.
CP 7 months ago (edited)
That isn't really the case anymore. It was in the early years and it was fun to edit wrong information in and see how long it took someone to change it back. Or win an argument by editing the Wiki. Not so much anymore. You can't edit it like that.
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Hyacinth (Any pronouns) 7 months ago
Yeah, they're really nice moths, but I'm not sure either. Maybe it's the funny common names? Because there are way funnier ones, if that's the case.
Load More Replies... Doug Moyer 7 months ago
Way too many lame ones. It would be nice if someone actually filtered them first.
Bill Swallow 7 months ago
We do that with our voting, then BP shortens the list.
Load More Replies... UKGrandad 7 months ago
Wikipedia is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit", which is why you should never blindly trust the information it contains. Always check the citations to see where the editors are getting their information from, because they are often far from reliable or unbiased sources.
CP 7 months ago (edited)
That isn't really the case anymore. It was in the early years and it was fun to edit wrong information in and see how long it took someone to change it back. Or win an argument by editing the Wiki. Not so much anymore. You can't edit it like that.
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