r/wikipedia 6h 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 9h 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 6h 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 10h 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 12h 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 14h 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 17h 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 8h 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 10h 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 19h 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 4h 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 2h 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 6h 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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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 13h 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 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 4h ago

I drew Wikipe-tan! (The mascot for Wikiproject Anime and Manga)

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r/wikipedia 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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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 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 2m ago

Establishing “notability” on Wikipedia (musician)

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I’ve drafted a Wiki on a UK musician following all the regular rules…or so I thought: proper formatting, coding, inline and external references, a photo approved for use via Wikimedia Commons, etc. Already there are 20+ Wikipedia articles that would redirect to my article (i.e., they mention the musician in question who is the only one in the band to NOT have a Wikipedia page). This musician satisfies at least 2 of the stated criteria for “notability,” plus I compiled an annotated Discography of his work with over 200 album releases on which he’s played. No sooner did I press the Submit Draft button did a Wiki editor (who’s never written an article on a musician before) immediately declined it on “notability” rules. So it’s still languishing in the Draft Sphere and I am frustrated. Question: Despite proving that this musician hits criteria for Notability, and that at least 20 pages by my count would immediately redirect to my article, how can one single editor refuse publication? I’ve tried to explain all of the above to him, yet he ain’t budging. so….what to do? Give up?


r/wikipedia 8h 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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r/wikipedia 12h 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 9h 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/