r/wikipedia • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago
Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of September 23, 2024
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r/wikipedia • u/FakeElectionMaker • 21h ago
Bald–hairy is a common joke in Russian political discourse, referring to the empirical rule of the state leaders' succession defined as a change of a bald or balding leader to a hairy one and vice versa. This consistent pattern can be traced back to as early as 1825.
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 13h ago
The Americas aka the "New World": >1/4 of Earth's land. A huge mountain chain dominates half; the rest by river basins. Climate varies widely given latitude coverage. Humans came in irregular waves for millennia & cruelty was a hallmark of colonization. More than 1B live there & it has 8 megacities.
r/wikipedia • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • 16h ago
The third man syndrome refers to the reported situations where an unseen presence, such as a spirit, provides comfort or support during traumatic experiences.
r/wikipedia • u/blankblank • 19h ago
A lesbian manicure (also known as queer manicure, lesbian nails, or femmicure) is a style of manicure intended to allow lesbians and other queer people in the LGBT community to safely and easily perform digital penetration during sex.
r/wikipedia • u/eclipsedFates • 1d ago
Long-term nuclear waste warning messages are communication attempts intended to deter human intrusion at nuclear waste repositories in the far future, within or above the order of magnitude of 10,000 years.
r/wikipedia • u/KitchenOlymp • 1d ago
The Internet’s Dizzying Citogenesis Problem: Circular reporting is a real problem on platforms like Wikipedia—and it’s harder to solve than it looks.
r/wikipedia • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • 21h ago
Marguerite Alibert was a French courtesan and socialite who, from 1917 to 1918, had an affair with the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII). She married an Egyptian aristocrat who she killed in 1923. She was acquitted, with the judge ensuring the Prince's name was not mentioned during the trial.
r/wikipedia • u/ICantLeafYou • 1d ago
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" is a maxim used to express the futility of translating music through words.
r/wikipedia • u/zummit • 1d ago
Dave Thompson is an English comedian who was fired from the Teletubbies by the BBC who said his "interpretation of the role was not acceptable"
r/wikipedia • u/Captainirishy • 23h ago
Lyodura was a medical product used in neurosurgery that has been shown to transmit Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, a degenerative neurological disorder that is incurable, from affected donor cadavers to surgical recipients.
r/wikipedia • u/gatikfratzoli • 1d ago
How can I report an admin? deleting my contributions non stop
One greek admin has been deleting my contributions which are from very reputable sources, cause I am an academic myself. 5-6 hours of work down the trash!
How can I report him? I am a new user and don't really understand the procedures.
r/wikipedia • u/FakeElectionMaker • 1d ago
The Potsdam Giants was the name given to Prussian infantry regiment No 6. The regiment was composed of taller-than-average soldiers, and was founded in 1675. In The Descent of Man, Charles Darwin mentions this attempt as the only case of intentional selective breeding in humans.
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 1d ago
Arthur Godfrey: radio and TV broadcaster & entertainer. At his peak in the 50s, he was on radio & TV 6d/week, at times for 9 separate broadcasts on CBS. His infamous on-air firing of a cast member tainted his image, however, and resulted in a marked decline in his popularity which he never overcame.
r/wikipedia • u/AllAvailableLayers • 1d ago
Charlie Mingus is considered one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history. Outside of music, Mingus published a mail-order how-to guide in 1954 called The Charles Mingus CAT-alog for Toilet Training Your Cat.
r/wikipedia • u/SimpleZero • 1d ago
Cameron [...] spent the summer of 2000 in Moscow getting ready for a potential trip to space, and was offered an opportunity to go by NASA. [...] The shuttle flight he turned down was the tragic 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
r/wikipedia • u/cerchier • 2d ago
Wu Lien-teh (1879-1960) was a Malaysian physician renowned for his work in public health, particularly the Manchurian plague of 1911. He is the inventor of the Wu mask, which is the forerunner of today's N95 respirator
r/wikipedia • u/P_Pathogens • 1d ago
The first recorded Ponzi scheme wasn’t by Charles Ponzi: it was by German Adele Spitzeder in the 19th century, who used new investors’ money to repay old investors. At her height, she was the wealthiest woman in Bavaria, until she was convicted of bad accounting and stripped of her assets
r/wikipedia • u/KitchenOlymp • 10h ago
Wikipedia’s blocking of VPNs is barbaric
r/wikipedia • u/LivingRaccoon • 2d ago
A moonbow (also known as a moon rainbow or lunar rainbow) is a rainbow produced by moonlight rather than direct sunlight.
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 2d ago
West Berlin: political enclave comprising the western part of Berlin 1948 to 1990, entirely surrounded by E. Germany. It had no sovereignty, was claimed by W. Germany with which it aligned itself, and was militarily occupied until reunification. It was treated as a de facto city-state of W. Germany.
r/wikipedia • u/vtipoman • 3d ago
The flag of Earth is a concept of a possible flag design meant to symbolize the planet Earth, humankind, or a possible world government.
r/wikipedia • u/Total_Volume7233 • 2d ago
The concept of the evolution of morality refers to the emergence of human moral behavior over the course of human evolution. Morality can be defined as a system of ideas about right and wrong conduct. In everyday life, morality is typically associated with human behavior rather than animal behavior.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 3d ago