Wikipedia talk:Unusual articles/Archive 3

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Robot fetishism

How about this? --KFP (talk | contribs) 21:20, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

...and everything else in Category:Paraphilia. :) --KFP (talk | contribs) 21:36, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Masturbate-a-thon

So...what category does that fit in? --Foot Dragoon 08:03, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

"Popular culture, entertainment and the arts", I guess – Qxz 16:33, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Masturbation is certainly popular, and potentially entertaining, so two out of three ain't bad. -Hit bull, win steak^(Moo!) 13:06, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

This article in the Wikipedia store

I've made some merchandise for the Wikipedia store based on these articles: [www.cafepress.com/wikipedia/2480654 Unusual Articles] section. Let me know what you think on the meta page. Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 01:04, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

English English

A typical article with an interesting title. --Tewy 23:12, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Userboxes

Feel free to create userboxes based on unusual articles.

This user has tested the
buttered cat paradox.^†

WP:UA

This user will "decorate" Sedlec Ossuary one day.^†

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Toynbee Idea Movie 2001 Resurrect Dead This User Planet Jupiter ^†

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This user brews tea according to ISO 3103. ^†

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I eventually teach John Titor everything he knows.

All this user wants is a Fucking sign. ^†

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This user has
seen Goatse.cx ^†

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This user formally recognizes the Tree That Owns Itself. ^†

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This user wants to eat Tomacco ^†

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Rose (goat)

Seems highly unusual to me. Well let's put it this way, I would hope it's unusual. 172.202.21.50 21:07, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Yep it is quite unusual. Graham87 03:14, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Unbelievable. Loukinho (talk) 11:15, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Les goddams

A second opinion, pleaseJamestown James 16:40, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Certainly, unusual name... Phgao 08:58, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

RSS/Atom feed?

Hey, I really love this article and I'm wondering if there could be some kind of an RSS or Atom feed for articles that are added and stay on, say, for more than a week or so. I know that each article on Wikipedia has its own "recent changes" feed, but since things, for good reason, are always being added or removed I'm wondering if we could have a feed for pages that stick, for at least a few days or something, to cut down on noise.

The reason I'm asking is because I had a lot of fun looking at all the articles on this list, and I'm glad for its sheer bulk and its number of interesting and amusing articles that really made me think. Now that I've read them all, or at least skimmed them--and some were amazing--I'm wondering if there's a good way to keep up on articles added.

Reading this many articles was long and difficult, but it was fun! I hope there's a good way to keep up with it. Thanks! Cherry Cotton 07:49, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Erm... Have you heard of a Watchlist? ^__^ --Alexander Ivashkin 13:44, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

E's clearly not asking for anything that can be done with a watchlist. I keep WP:UA on mine but so many of the edits are lame articles being put up that will be taken down shortly, or the edits of people taking them down, or whatever. It'd be nice if a bot or something could have an RSS feed for new articles added that stay up for a couple of days. --Mobius Soul 18:32, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

State of Louisiana v. Frisard

Can sameone entry "State of Louisiana v. Frisard" for me? I don't know what to write in description cell... --Usien6 18:55, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Done. I just copied it from part of the intro to the article. Graham87 01:36, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Teddy bear toss

Not too unusual but a possible addition to the sport section. Any ideas on a description? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DeadEyeArrow (talk • contribs) 03:56, 19 July 2007.

I'll go ahead and do it. ÐeadΣyeДrrow (Talk|Contribs) 01:56, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Uh

Who moved this article into mainspace, and why? Lewis Collard! (baby i'm bad news) 20:01, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

He does stuff like that. (check the history for who). He also forgot to fix the archives (either link fixes or simultaneous move). Ummm, I think the old article title was a better description anyway, so I'm going to request it get moved back. --Quiddity 16:14, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

requested move

To Wikipedia:Unusual articles, per above. original title makes more sense. --Quiddity 16:16, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Support -- This page is more about the existence of the articles than the topics, These articles are valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are somewhat odd, whimsical, or something you wouldn't expect to find in Encyclopædia Britannica. Also, "Unusual" is subjective, so if this remains in the mainspace it violates WP:NOR, I've seen pages nominated for deletion before for having "unusual" as an inclusion critetion. Move it back to Wikipedia:Unusual articles, there was no discussion for the previous move. Saikokira 19:04, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Support' - Move it back to the original title. If it's not broken, it doesn't need fixing...Lugnuts 19:25, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Yeah - it shouldn't really have to go through this process though. As for the reasoning that "articles" is self-referential well that doesn't matter because it's in the Wikipedia namespace. violet/riga (t) 22:54, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
You're welcome to boldly move it. I would have if I could have (the redirect had an additional edit, so it just wasn't technically possible for me). --Quiddity 23:17, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Boldly moved (to where it was before) GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 01:10, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Addition?

How about Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon? Pretty funny article. Mahalo. --Ali'i 14:33, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Go ahead! Reywas92^Talk 15:12, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Lol that's a great article. Phgao 08:56, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

funny picture

This picture cracked me up, and I don't know where else to joke about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:HoldPhonoCylinder.jpg If you don't get it, your mind isn't in the gutter enough ;) Rm999 18:56, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

What's Up?

First this page was at Wikipedia:Unusual Artilces, then it moved to Wikipedia:Unusual Topics, now its back at WP:Unusual Articles. Why was it moved to WP:Unusual Topics in the first place and why did it get moved back?

Wikiman232 17:03, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

WP:UA is (and should always be) the name. Someone moved it but people disagreed and it was moved back. violet/riga (t) 17:08, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Someone didn't realize that it was in wikispace, and being a meta-article was perfectly fine. ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ 17:11, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Most unusual contributor

It would be interesting to see a list of who has written/started the most UAs and to see if there are any "repeat offenders". I think I've got about four or five on there at the moment. violet/riga (t) 10:09, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

A quick study shows that Grutness and Mintguy started multiple "unusual places" articles with three and two respectively. I wonder if they stuck to places or if they dabbled in other unusual things. The earliest unusual place we have is here, from June 2001. violet/riga (t) 11:20, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

I am guessing that the original query was not about who added the most items to this article, but who created the most articles that ended up getting listed here. Spikebrennan 13:57, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

It was, yes. violet/riga (t) 13:59, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Arkyan has kindly done this and the results are at User:Arkyan/Strangelist. I had a suspicion that I would be high on the list, and there are ten people with four or more articles on this page. Good work! violet/riga (t) 19:12, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, I've written two articles that've showed up on WP:UA? The only "odd" ones I've gotten around to so far (to the best of my recollection) are Hindu milk miracle and posthumous sperm retrieval, neither of which are on there. I've tracked down and posted a fair few others have made (Fuck for Forest, Extraterrestrial real estate, David Hahn, Real-life superhero, Soap made from human corpses, Stambovsky v. Ackley, etc, etc.) Still, not sure which two I wrote. GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 20:12, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Ah, hang on, Forest swastika. Ok, one more for me to find :) GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 20:29, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

The list has been updated to include the articles. You are credited with Panda Pornography which you moved to proper case. violet/riga (t) 19:08, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I've knocked myself back down to 1 and properly credited User:Atlien26 for the article. GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 16:24, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

I note a minor bug(?): Legislative violence is listed (and counted) twice for Arbiteroftruth, and so is Where's the beef? for J.J.. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 20:07, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

The latter was included twice on the main page (fixed now) but the former is not. Perhaps it picked up the image caption. Good spot. violet/riga (t) 20:15, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

This list reads largely like a pre Web-2.0, pre 9/11, late 1990s American/British collection of trivia

You know what I mean? It's when you reach these weird dicdef/explanatory articles with no WikiProject on their talk pages and no in-line citations as well as use of bullet points and collections of trivia, you know they've been around for ages.--h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 12:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

{{sofixit}}. Neil ム 15:33, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't think he was complaining, I think he was being nostalgic. Why, back in my day, we had to wait two minutes just to dial up to the internets, and once we were there we had to wait another couple years before it stopped sucking and someone thought of Wikipedia! --lucid 15:37, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Proposed removals.

I recently looked through the list. While it's admittedly a subjective judgment, brevity does suggest that the list be cleaned out every once in awhile. Would there be any objection to removing any of the following?

Conservapedia - This feels more petty than funny to place it here. "They could not out-edit" Wikipedia?
The computers take over - This is too cliche to be unusual, but maybe I'm jaded. The tipping point is that the article isn't very good.
Energy vampire - More lame than unusual.
The Puppy Channel - See above; sad, not really unusual.
You forgot Poland - Not unusual enough, really.
UFO-Memorial Ängelholm - There's a lot of these "weird monument" type articles on the list, and this is an unusually short and not funny article.
Cannabis foods - Hahaha drugs are funny? Not really that interesting.
Goatse.cx - Again, not really unusual enough. Maybe should be replaced by a link to Shock site rather than this example?
Infinite Cat Project - AfD bait, not really that funny.
Monster infighting - Kind of blase within videogames. There has to be something better and weirder to use instead.
Interactive Urinal Communicator - Short, kinda blah.
Suicide Squid - It's... a typo. Kinda funny, but not top rank quality.
List of fictional robots and androids - Too broad a list.
SnowFire 23:53, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

An article doesn't have to be funny/long/featured quality/non-AfD bait to be unusual, but some of these should go. Conservapedia and Suicide Squid are only slightly interesting. Bushism is already on the list, so You forgot Poland should probably go. Goatse.cx isn't very unusual by itself, it should probably be replaced by Shock site. The fictional robot list and Monster infighting could go either way. As for the rest, I don't really see why they should be removed. 69.40.242.61 19:32, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Bah. This isn't worth edit warring over, but I'll just say that with this page 120K long, it's more "is there a reason to keep it" rather than "I don't see a reason why they should be removed." Articles should *earn* their place here, not merely be kept by tradition. Anyway, I definitely think that the Infinite Cat Project should be removed, if nothing else- it's got an unclear notability tag on it, and it's quite possible that it'll never improve. SnowFire 03:12, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I went ahead and removed Suicide Squid, since it was merged/redirected to a less unusual article. -Hit bull, win steak^(Moo!) 13:10, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

I've re-removed Infinite Cat Project. I've also removed M-185 (Michigan highway). It is a highway that doesn't allow motor vehicles. It may be notable, but it's not very unusual. 69.40.250.144 21:41, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Just in case

Digged. -- ReyBrujo 05:33, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

Thats a lot of digs. Phgao 08:54, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Shingo Aomori

How about Shingo, Aomori Japan, which claims to be the real location of Christ's death? 75.73.17.204 09:32, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Go ahead and add it on. 12.47.7.131 21:31, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

List of MythBusters episodes?

Can anyone tell me what is possibly unusual about a list of a TV series, compared to one of any other TV series of the hundreds on WP? ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ 10:50, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

There isn't. Somebody seems to have added it on a few days ago. Thanks for removing it. 69.40.247.62 18:48, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

I was reverted though, and it's still there as I didn't want to edit war. ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ 20:56, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Proposed addition - Thagomizer

I think that Thagomizer is an interesting enough bit to warrant inclusion. Anyone concur? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 19:00, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

It's already there in the science section. Graham87 06:43, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

This article is in itself unusual

One could argue that perhaps this article should mention itself as being quite unusual in nature. JoaCHIP 15:58, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

This isn't an article. ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ 16:07, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Communist Mutants from Space

Released on the Atari 2600 in 1982. The game itself is just a Space Invaders clone, but the title alone should warrant inclusion. See also: The Return of the Communist Mutants from Space. Ppk01 09:54, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Done Laïka 09:20, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Atari video game burial

This one should replace the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Atari 2600) article in the list. Unlike the E.T. article, this one is actually an unusual subject. Ppk01 15:16, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good. 71.31.157.98 04:41, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Done Laïka 09:20, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

More possible removals.

At 135 KB, this article does need occasional pruning. Anyway, looking through some recently added entries and some other things...

Articles I just removed:

Here - The article is by turns pretentious or dictionary-like. And the concept is certainly not news.
Here be dragons - This is too well-known.
Ota Benga - The general tone of the Unusual articles page is humor; this tale is entirely too tragic and sad to qualify. I mean, it happens after slavery has already been abolished and ends in a suicide. The "unusual" part of this story is more in tune with cruel and unusual.
Every time you masturbate... God kills a kitten - Listing every web meme is impossible. Most of them are at least worth a smirk; that's why they became memes in the first place. This meme doesn't go above and beyond to reach this page.
Noël Godin - Both this and the Biotic Baking Brigade are on the list; I don't think we need two pieing entries. Arguably, the BBB should be replaced by "pieing" in general as well.
Danger music - The article on this is recently made, short, and only has one reference; not sure if this really exists as a movement. Maybe it could be returned after the article gets better.

Articles that should possibly also be removed and/or changed:

Jennifer 8. Lee - Lots of people have weird names, and this isn't nearly as weird as some others on the list.
Ghost ride - Not really unusual enough? There are lots of dangerous yet "cool" things people do. A short article, too.
ABC-DEF-GHI - It's a cute educational song. Not sure if it's THAT special, though.
Phantom time hypothesis - Okay, this is actually a good entry, but I'd suggest replacing it with New Chronology (Fomenko), which is even crazier.
Traditions and anecdotes associated with the Stanley Cup - Again... cute, but weird enough for this list?
Rumspringa - I'm familiar with this, but again, this issue is a bit more serious than expected for the page. It's not quite happy-fun-party time for the seemingly straight-laced as a tagline of "Amish Gone Wild" would suggest.

Thoughts? Also, I still stand by the remaining suggested removals in the section above, though I won't revert the other editor's defense of them. SnowFire 02:50, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good. 71.31.158.150 19:24, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

HeLa

This is a weird subject - didn't know about it until I read it on Digg. Yes? 143.166.226.43 14:02, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

(Please add new sections at the bottom, using the "+" button.) It is a weird subject, but it's exceedingly well known in its field, and thus does not fit the theme of "things you would not expect to find in an encyclopedia". —Tamfang 09:20, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

To be so bold

Could I be so bold as to suggest that Crush, Texas be considered for this list? 67.173.131.28 (talk) 04:45, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Sounds unusual enough. 71.31.148.58 (talk) 22:17, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Faggin-Nazzi

Ok, the article Faggin-Nazzi isn't that interesting, but the name is hilarious. I leave it to the people here to consider including it. Stevage 23:43, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Please keep it, for the name!!! (Oh, and I've a soft spot for languages, so that's a double vote). --MacRusgail (talk) 15:57, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

I dunno, there are quite a few linguistics articles with funny (to English-speakers) names. If we start listing them here, should we also include, say, Anus language and Anal language? —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 17:42, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes please. --MacRusgail (talk) 18:15, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

I suppose you could also list Shagnasty Island. --MacRusgail (talk) 14:52, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

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