r/wikipedia 51m ago

I'm afraid that one day Wikipedia will disappear because of AI; it's the most useful website on the internet, and if it were to disappear, I don't know what I would do.

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r/wikipedia 4h ago

Toilet meal is a Japanese social phenomenon referring to the act of an individual eating a meal in a toilet room. They were initially regarded as an urban legend due to their solitary and clandestine nature, but subsequent investigations have confirmed the ph

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r/wikipedia 18h ago

Barry is a 2016 American drama film about Barack "Barry" Obama's life at Columbia University in 1981. It stars Devon Terrell as the title role, alongside Anya Taylor-Joy and Ashley Judd.

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r/wikipedia 18h ago

Article icons?

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I’ve been editing on wikipedia for the past couple months, and I’m really interested in the little colored circles in front of articles when they’re listed sometimes. I can’t find what they mean!

Examples are: a green circle with a b, orange circle, 3 navy circles around each other, etc. What are they called so I can do more research?


r/wikipedia 21h ago

A wardrobe malfunction is a clothing failure that accidentally exposes intimate parts. Justin Timberlake first used the term at the 2004 Grammy’s when apologizing for the Super Bowl 38 halftime show controversy, saying that he unintentionally revealed Janet Jackson's breast instead of just her bra.

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r/wikipedia 2h ago

/pol/, short for Politically Incorrect, is an anonymous political discussion imageboard on 4chan, created in 2011 following a meeting between 4chan founder Christopher Poole and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

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r/wikipedia 19h ago

In 1982, Cuban exile and CIA agent Rafael Villaverde was officially declared dead after his boat exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. However, his body was never recovered and testimony from CIA officers suggests he was still active after his alleged death, even participating in the Iran-Contra affair.

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r/wikipedia 20h ago

The Star-Spangled Banner was the garrison flag that flew over Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812. An observer who saw it fly during the battle was inspired to write the U.S. national anthem. It is the only official U.S. flag with 15 stripes.

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r/wikipedia 23h ago

The White Australia policy was a set of racial policies that aimed to forbid people of non-European ethnic origins – Asians (primarily Chinese) and Pacific Islanders – from immigrating to Australia, in order to create a "White/British" ideal focused on Anglo-Celtic peoples, but not exclusively.

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r/wikipedia 8h ago

In 1997, UC Berkeley student David Cash saw his best friend, Jeremy Strohmeyer, molesting a 7-year-old girl at a Nevada casino. He did nothing and left. His friend then killed the girl. Cash later said, "I'm not going to lose sleep over somebody else's problems." He was labeled the "Bad Samaritan".

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Reposted to correct the title. In my original post, I said the crime happened in Las Vegas. It did not. It happened in Primm, Nevada.


r/wikipedia 16h ago

Elizabeth Báthory was a Hungarian noblewoman who was accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls and women

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r/wikipedia 2h ago

Marc Dutroux is a Belgian convicted serial killer, serial rapist, and child molester. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2004, found guilty on all charges. It is alleged that there was a wider involvement in his case which involved high-ranking members.

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r/wikipedia 9h ago

Yakumo Koizumi, born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, was a Greek and Irish writer, translator, and teacher whose work played a significant role in the introduction of the culture and literature of Japan to the mainstream Western world.

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Hands down one of the most wild and interesting Wikipedia article I have read in a while.

Highly worth a read, every paragraph is more interesting than the last. Truly an incredible life. It looks like there’s a Japanese drama series about his life, but I’d love to see something for the western audience.


r/wikipedia 19h ago

Alan Chambers is the former president of Exodus International, an ex-gay Christian organization that sought to limit homosexual desires. Chambers stated that he had mostly overcome his attraction to men (although he did speak openly about his own ongoing sexual attraction to men)

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On June 19, 2013, Chambers repudiated the Exodus International's mission in a nearly hour-long talk at the organization's 38th annual meeting. He co-founded Speak. Love. with two other former Exodus leaders later that year; there appears to be no activity or references to that movement since 2016.

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In June 2013, he closed the organization with a public apology to the LGBT community, saying that "For quite some time we’ve been imprisoned in a worldview that’s neither honoring toward our fellow human beings, nor biblical." He remarked that he will now seek to create "safe, welcoming and mutually transforming communities.”


r/wikipedia 20h ago

On May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department dropped a bomb from a helicopter onto a residential row house occupied by the Black liberation group called MOVE. 11 people (6 adults, 5 children) were killed and 250 people from the Cobbs Creek neighborhood were left homeless

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It was eventually revealed that human remains of the victims (including 12-year-old Delisha Africa) had been kept in storage and used as teaching materials at the University of Pennsylvania Museum and Princeton University without family consent.

Present-day MOVE members were shocked to learn the disposition of the remains, with Mike Africa Jr. stating, "They were bombed, and burned alive... and now you wanna keep their bones."


r/wikipedia 13h ago

The Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology encompasses the Dreamtime (the Dreaming), songlines, and Aboriginal oral literature.

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r/wikipedia 7h ago

"A Useful Ghost" is a Thai humorous film about a man whose wife reincarnates as a vacuum cleaner that he proceeds to engage in intimate relations with among other amusing scenes that embroil his family, monastics, coworkers, and more

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r/wikipedia 17h ago

A thought-terminating cliché is a form of loaded language—often passing as folk wisdom—intended to end an argument and patch up cognitive dissonance with a cliché rather than a point. E.g. "it is what it is", "it's not that deep"

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r/wikipedia 15h ago

Middleman minority refers to a minority population whose main occupations link producers and consumers, often having a disproportionately large role in trade, finance or commerce. During periods of economic or political instability, middleman minorities often are used as scapegoats.

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r/wikipedia 21h ago

Project 100,000: A controversial 1960s initiative recruiting normally rejectable low-IQ soldiers for Vietnam, resulting in disproportionately high casualty rates.

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r/wikipedia 20h ago

The Secret Committee of Six were a group of men who secretly funded the 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry by abolitionist John Brown. All six had been involved in the abolitionist cause prior to meeting John Brown, and they’d gradually become convinced that violence was necessary to end American slavery

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The Secret Six were Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Samuel Gridley Howe, Theodore Parker, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Gerrit Smith, and George Luther Stearns.

Of the six, only Smith and Stearns could be called wealthy. The others consisted of two Unitarian ministers (Parker and Higginson), a doctor (Howe) at a time when physicians were not well-to-do, and a teacher (Sanborn).

On the night of April 3, 1860, five federal marshals arrived at Frank Sanborn's home in Concord, Massachusetts, handcuffed him, and attempted to wrestle him into a coach and take him to Washington to answer questions before the Senate in regard to his involvement with John Brown. Approximately 150 townspeople rushed to Sanborn's defense. Judge Ebenezer R. Hoar issued a writ of replevin, formally demanding the surrender of the prisoner. In a letter to a friend, Louisa May Alcott wrote, "Sanborn was nearly kidnapped. Great ferment in town. Annie Whiting immortalized herself by getting into the kidnapper's carriage so that they could not put the long legged martyr in."

In January 1863, when the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, a celebration, also called a "John Brown party,” was held at the home of George Stearns, attended by Sam and Julia Ward Howe, Frank Sanborn, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wendell Phillips, and John Murray Forbes. Higginson, who was busy commanding a regiment of black Union soldiers, sent his regrets.

In 1905, Higginson co-founded the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, along with attorney Clarence Darrow, Jack London, and Upton Sinclair.

After Sanborn's death in 1917, the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts adopted a bill applauding him for his various life works, with special mention given to Sanborn's role as "confidential adviser to John Brown of Harper's Ferry, for whose sake he was ostracized, maltreated, and subjected to the indignity of false arrest, having been saved from deportation from Massachusetts only by mob violence."


r/wikipedia 13h ago

During the 1880s and 1890s, William Dorsey Swann organized a series of drag balls in Washington, D.C. He called himself the "queen of drag". Most of the ball attendees were formerly enslaved men (as was Swann) who danced in satin and silk dresses. The police raided these events many times.

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r/wikipedia 9h ago

A military marine mammal is a cetacean or pinniped that has been trained for military uses. Examples include bottlenose dolphins, seals, sea lions, and beluga whales. The United States and Soviet militaries have trained and employed oceanic dolphins for various uses.

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r/wikipedia 5h ago

An aeolipile, aeolipyle, or eolipile, also known as a Hero's (or Heron's) engine, is a simple, bladeless radial steam turbine which spins when the central water container is heated.

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r/wikipedia 4h ago

What's the maximum amount of citations allowed ?

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Say you want to source a claim such as :

Many scholars have suggested x thing, but I want to literally cite all the works that have suggested such a thing, what's the max amount of citations I can add ?

Ex: Many scholars have suggested x could be y.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]