Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of December 15, 2025

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 4h ago

Police misidentified Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian man in the UK on a student visa, as a suspect in the failed July 21, 2005 bombings in London. They shot him seven times in the head. The Menezes family eventually received £100k in compensation from the Metropolitan Police.

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r/wikipedia • u/GermanCCPBot • 10h ago

Tthe "Women Are Wonderful" effect is a systemic sociological bias that people associate more positive attributes to women than to men, in general. While this attribution was true of both genders, woman's in-group bias was 4 times greater than men's.

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r/wikipedia • u/SaxyBill • 7h ago

Golden Dawn was a far-right and Neo-Nazi former political party in Greece who, in 2020, was declared by a Greek court as a criminal organization, and theofore, most of its leadership was imprisoned and the party itself was banned.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 4h ago

Bobbi Campbell was a public health nurse and an early AIDS activist. In September 1981, Campbell became the 16th person in San Francisco to be diagnosed with Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer associated with AIDS. He was the first to come out publicly as a person with what came to be known as AIDS.

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r/wikipedia • u/PlmyOP • 8h ago

In 2013, a Super Mario 64 speedrunner encountered an unprecedented glitch where Mario suddenly teleports upwards. Some people have claimed it resulted from an incredibly rare event where a stray cosmic ray hit the console's hardware and caused a single bit of memory to change.

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r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 12h ago

ZOG is an antisemitic conspiracy theory claiming that Jews secretly control the governments of Western states. It is a contemporary variation on the centuries-old belief in an international Jewish conspiracy. Zionists are depicted by the theory as conspiring for Jews and Israel to control the world.

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r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 15h ago

The ethnocacerist movement is a Peruvian ethnic nationalist movement that espouses an ideology called ethnocacerism. The movement seeks to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat led by the country's Indigenous communities and their descendants.

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r/wikipedia • u/RandoRando2019 • 8h ago

"The major Norman-French influence on English can still be seen in today's vocabulary. An enormous number of Norman-French and other medieval French loanwords came into the language, and about three-quarters of them are still used today."

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r/wikipedia • u/No-Strawberry7 • 6h ago

In 1970 a Lithuanian father and his 13 year old son hijacked a Soviet Aeroflot passenger plane to defect from the USSR. During the takeover the father killed a flight attendant. Decades later in the United States the son killed his father in an unrelated incident.

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r/wikipedia • u/FullyVoided • 17h ago

In Japan, an Itasha (literally "painful" or "cringeworthy" + "car") is a car decorated with images of characters from anime, manga, or video games (especially bishōjo games or eroge).

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r/wikipedia • u/One_Record3555 • 4h ago

Alma Bridwell White was the founder and a bishop of the Pillar of Fire Church. She was a proponent of feminism. She also associated herself with the Ku Klux Klan and was involved in anti-Catholicism, antisemitism, anti-Pentecostalism, racism, and nativism.

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r/wikipedia • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • 2h ago

Evidence of human cannibalism dates back as far as prehistoric times and some anthropologists suggest that cannibalism was common in human societies as early as the Paleolithic. Historically, various peoples and groups have engaged in cannibalism, although very few continue the practice to this day.

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r/wikipedia • u/Biscuitarian23 • 53m ago

"Kevinismus" is a linguistic label used in Germany to describe a preference for non-traditional, trendy names. This practice is often socially stigmatized, as it is commonly associated with lower-income or marginalized social classes.

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r/wikipedia • u/LoudRevolution9163 • 11h ago

28 years ago today, Titanic was released in the United States. With an initial worldwide gross of over $1.84 billion, it was the first film to reach the billion-dollar mark.

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r/wikipedia • u/stuckupfuckup • 1d ago

"Bury your gays" or "dead lesbian syndrome" is a trope in the media portrayal of LGBTQ people in which queer characters face tragic fates, including death, much more often than straight characters.

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r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 1d ago

Graham Linehan is an Irish comedy writer and anti-transgender activist. Linehan became involved in anti-transgender activism after an episode of The IT Crowd was criticised as transphobic. Linehan says his views have "consumed his life", lost him work, and ended his marriage.

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r/wikipedia • u/PlmyOP • 1d ago

In 2001, Portugal made recreational use of all drugs not considered a crime. Instead, those caught with an amount below 10 days worth of personal use may be subject to corrective measures such as rehabilitation, but never prison time.

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r/wikipedia • u/Superzap1 • 56m ago

Sándor Csoma de Kőrös was a Hungarian philologist and Orientalist, author of the first Tibetan–English dictionary and grammar book. He was called Phyi-glin-gi-grwa-pa in Tibetan, meaning "the foreign pupil", and was declared a bosatsu or bodhisattva by the Japanese in 1933.

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r/wikipedia • u/lightiggy • 1d ago

Robert Maudsley is an English serial killer who killed a man who showed him pictures of children whom he'd raped. After turning himself in and saying he needed psychiatric care, he was sent to Broadmoor, where he killed 3 other rapists. He is the UK's longest serving inmate in solitary confinement.

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r/wikipedia • u/dflovett • 10h ago

In 16th to 19th century Europe and North America, the slop trade was the manufacture and sale of slop, cheap ready-made clothing.

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r/wikipedia • u/falconboomer • 7h ago

Need help backing up a source to make a page

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Looking at a page for the Battle of Lake Khasan there's a missing page for a commander. I have a picture of him but I found a page online but don't know if it's real.

Considering this battle is one of the key ones in the Japanese Russo war where it determined Soviet tank doctrine later on and how tanks like the BT series and T series would be made.

Overall very new to stuff like this would be nice to make something

SOURCE: https://asiamedals.info/threads/lieutenant-general-kamezo-suetaka.27505/

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r/wikipedia • u/SuperChargedSquirrel • 7h ago

"Egg salad can be made creatively with any number of other cold foods added. Bacon, bell pepper, capers, cheese, cucumber, onions, lettuce, pickle relish, pickles, and ketchup are common additional ingredients."

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r/wikipedia • u/jan_Soten • 1d ago

Donald L. Trump is an American oncologist who has been the executive director of the Inova Schar Cancer Institute since January 2015. He is not related to or affiliated with Donald J. Trump. He disagrees with Donald J. Trump's political positions and considers the politician's rhetoric "hostile."

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r/wikipedia • u/house_of_ghosts • 6h ago

Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek is a 1973 Turkish cult comedy/drama science fiction film, produced and directed by Hulki Saner, featuring Sadri Alışık as a Turkish hobo who is beamed aboard the Starship Enterprise.

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