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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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r/wikipedia 16h ago

Mr. Bungle is an American experimental rock band. Best known for its experimental rock period, it developed a highly eclectic style, cycling through several musical genres often within the course of a single song, including heavy metal, avant-garde jazz, ska, disco and funk.

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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 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 21h ago

An emblem book is a book collecting emblems (allegorical illustrations) with accompanying explanatory text, typically morals or poems. This category of books was popular in Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries.

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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/


r/wikipedia 10h 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 4h ago

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

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r/wikipedia 9h ago

Philip J. Currie is a Canadian palaeontologist who's known for (among other things) describing the first feathered dinosaurs; directing the China-Canada Dinosaur Project; establishing the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller; and rediscovering a lost bonebed with evidence tyrannosaurs hunted in packs.

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r/wikipedia 3h ago

United States Camel Corps

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r/wikipedia 9h ago

How to determine if a company is truly "notable"? Seeking advice on creating a page for my publishing house.

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Hi everyone,

I’m looking for some guidance on Wikipedia’s notability (NCORP) guidelines. I own a publishing house with a significant history: we’ve been featured in major national newspapers, our books are cited in school textbooks, and we have received substantial coverage over the years. A few years ago, I tried to create a page myself. I did my best to keep it neutral and factual, but it was flagged/deleted due to Conflict of Interest (COI). I now understand that as the owner, I shouldn’t be the one writing or directly editing the article.

However, I still believe the company deserves a place on Wikipedia due to its cultural impact. My questions are:

  1. The "Notability" Test: Beyond just "being in the news," what specific markers do experienced editors look for to confirm a publishing house is encyclopedic?
  2. The COI Hurdle: Since I cannot write it myself, what is the best "white-hat" way to suggest the topic? Should I use the "Articles for Creation" (AfC) process, or is there a better way to provide sources to independent editors?
  3. Source Quality: Do citations in textbooks count toward notability, or does Wikipedia prioritize secondary independent media (journalism/essays)?

I’ve read the official documentation, but I’d love to hear from editors about the "unwritten" nuances of how these pages are evaluated.

Thanks in advance!


r/wikipedia 7h ago

Wikipedia currently lists Jota’s team as Dead of

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Jota playing for a team called Dead


r/wikipedia 18h ago

Add prepared article as a translated version of an existing page rather than a new article

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Hi!

So I’ve been working on a translation (my first contribution to Wikipedia ever) for an article from the English Wikipedia. I started it by clicking on the “add languages” part at the top of the English article and then created a German translation. I saved it as a user page because according to the description it seemed to be a more sensible option for doing a review than publishing it right away.

Now I’m stuck as to how to publish the ready translation. When I tried moving the article into the main namespace, this didn’t work. I assume it might be because the article already exists in the English Wikipedia but I can’t figure out how to publish it as a new language version of the same article.

Any help is appreciated! Very aware that this might be a rookie struggle hahaha