What are some of your favourite wikipedia articles and why?

[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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War

[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

[sidereal@kolektiva.social]

@babe For me, it's a tie between "List of Individual Trees" and "Ice Trade"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_trees

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_trade

[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."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booger_Hole%2C_West_Virginia

[iain@kolektiva.social]

@babe my high school’s Wikipedia page has a long long list of notable alumni who went on to be scientists, scholars, politicians, sportspeople, but at the end is “Peter Scott - burglar” and his Wikipedia page is amazing

“Scott described himself as having been "sent by God to take back some of the wealth that the outrageously rich had taken from the rest of us"”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scott_(thief)

[finalgirl@blackqueer.life]

@babe (dark) I love looking at proto-Indo-European and after spending time in that rabbit hole, realizing that the entirety of human history is just Indo-European colonization of the entire planet.

[friesen5000@sunny.garden]

@babe "Picadilly weepers"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Dundreary

[breakingnerd@mastodon.social]

@babe i read about this guy some time ago and I found the story incredible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_the_Farter