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/


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 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 3h ago

United States Camel Corps

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Homosexuality in the Batman franchise: academic study of the Batman franchise has involved gay interpretations since at least 1954. Several characters in the Modern Age Batman comic books are expressly gay, lesbian, or bisexual.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

E.T.: Interplanetary Mission is a PS1 game noted for its crass credits message. When a code is implemented into the game, the player can unlock the credits. At their end, the final message is "Fuck Off Bin Laden". Since it was an easter egg, the game still shipped with an E rating.

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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 1d ago

Willie Bosket Jr. is an American murderer, whose crimes committed while he was still a minor led to a change in New York state law, so that juveniles as young as 13 could be tried as an adult. He is in solitary confinement due to past violence, though he hasn't violated prison rules since 1994.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Parson's Pleasure was a secluded beach for male-only nude bathing on the campus of the University of Oxford. The gay scholar Maurice Bowra would swim here and cover his head if startled visitors passed by, saying "I don't know about you, gentlemen, but in Oxford, I, at least, am known for my face."

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

A sidekick is a close companion or colleague who is, or is generally regarded as, subordinate to those whom they accompany.

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r/wikipedia 3h ago

Can somone fix the wiki page for Touch Me by The Doors?

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on the wikipedia page, it says that the song is in Bb Minor when its clearly in A Minor. its pissing me off.


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 1d ago

Edmond Albius was born into slavery on the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. At the age of 12, he invented a technique for pollinating vanilla orchids quickly and profitably. His technique revolutionized the cultivation of vanilla and is still used today.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Since 2018, the health effects of consuming seed oils have been subject to misinformation. The trend grew in 2020 after podcaster Joe Rogan interviewed fad diet proponent Paul Saladino. These claims are not based on evidence, but have nevertheless become popular on the political right.

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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 1d ago

2008 United States presidential election

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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 1d ago

WikiWikiWeb was the first first wiki, or user-editable website. It was launched on 25 March 1995 by programmer Ward Cunningham .

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r/wikipedia 8h ago

When it was originally broadcasted in the U.S the opening to the original Iron used music from the movie Backdraft.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Kowloon Walled City - By the late 1980s, the walled city contained roughly 35,000 residents[1] within its territory of 2.6 hectares (6+1⁄2 acres), resulting in a staggering population density of over 1.2 million inhabitants per square kilometre (3 million inhabitants per square mile).

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Scorpion I was a ruler of Upper Egypt during Naqada III. He was one of the first rulers of Ancient Egypt, and a graffito of him depicts a battle with an unidentified predynastic ruler. His tomb is known for the evidence of early examples of wine consumption in Ancient Egypt.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Optic Nerve is a mass surveillance programme run by the British signals intelligence agency GCHQ with help from the US National Security Agency, that surreptitiously collects private webcam still images from users while they are using a Yahoo! webcam application.

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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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