The Best of Wikipedia: (113)

1 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2007-08-22 21:18 ID:S0Ikyj2W This thread was merged from the former /net/ board. You can view the archive here.

Here's my first pick:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ike%21_Godman

64 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-11-04 20:02 ID:S27oxpec

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shingo,_Aomori

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Kee_Building

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_micronations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroth_law_of_thermodynamics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_10,000_problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis

65 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-11-12 23:09 ID:pTcKHrbi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

>some questioned whether a cruise missile derived from Project Pluto would need a warhead at all; the radiation from its engine, coupled with the shock wave that would be produced by flying at Mach 3[citation needed] at treetop level, would have left a wide path of destruction wherever it went.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)

66 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-11-13 23:43 ID:na9RkRjJ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola_wars

67 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-12-03 04:01 ID:h+rR3PpH

>>20
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detachable_Penis

68 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-12-03 06:42 ID:ou/7FQi0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012

>2012 is claimed by some with New age beliefs to be a great year of spiritual transformation (or alternatively an apocalypse). There is disagreement among believers as to whether 2012 will see an end of civilization, or humanity will be elevated to a higher level.

69 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2008-12-03 06:43 ID:ou/7FQi0

>>67

a song? buahahahahahaha

70 Name: Otaku-desu : 2008-12-22 16:33 ID:ToUROeav

>>68

2012, the day the earth stood still, and watched the words 'WELCOME TO LEVEL TWO' appear in the sky.

71 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-01-04 03:49 ID:5gZ1r9v5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy's_law

and it's image "murphy's law in action"

72 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-01-13 07:58 ID:h+rR3PpH

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog

73 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-01-13 21:27 ID:Jq9CJGfQ

>>67
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_panic

74 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-01-14 02:21 ID:t7PhjneR

On this day, 4chan was the featured article on Wikipedia's front page.

75 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-01-14 03:28 ID:hSo7fl03

>>74 What a terrible day

76 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-03-11 03:18 ID:5t5i7FU5

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/George_Clinton.png

77 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-04-13 06:40 ID:ODGDsO2K

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_Adriaensz._Berckheyde

>He could not pronounce his own name. He also had surgery to switch his ears. He loved to judge men's wet t-shirt contests and got extremely giddy when he did this. He was morbidly obese as a child due to an addiction to twinkies. He lost all this weight during a gastric bypass surgery at the age of 13.

78 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-04-13 18:36 ID:Heaven

>>77 i don't think they had twinkies or men's wet t-shirt contests in the 17th century. that article might be untrue.

79 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-04-18 18:33 ID:8WqHcy5n

>>78

I read it on the internet, so it must be true.

80 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-05-19 04:15 ID:mEk7KN5l

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_fencing

81 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-05-22 09:33 ID:k3T2FUxU

>>80
hello fellow qwantz reader

82 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-06-14 20:45 ID:Mtb/1Fzg

>>77
It was edited.

83 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-06-15 02:05 ID:Heaven

http://got.wikipedia.org/

84 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-06-15 05:24 ID:l+IhnvZh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_bang_pornography

85 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-10-13 22:06 ID:CegdOV1v

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hypospadias_erection.JPG

86 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2009-12-11 11:59 ID:0FkSuxiU

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:JJJ999

A very clever hoax.

87 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2010-05-31 11:31 ID:rd61n6eG

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2#Encounter_with_Uranus

88 Name: Suzumebachi : 2010-06-11 01:59 ID:xNKgLf62

what is this thread about??

89 Post deleted.

90 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2010-09-30 22:22 ID:UAjaPfeK

>>88 Tell Schnab I said hi. And cocks, by the look of it.

91 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2012-02-10 22:49 ID:Q0lxWIMs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Teledildonics.ogg

92 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2012-02-17 12:55 ID:dC/bVfUZ

>>91
He's totally selling me on these.

93 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2012-02-21 23:31 ID:Q0lxWIMs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_Plant

94 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2012-03-19 08:34 ID:bX9aAQUu

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_king_(folklore)

95 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2012-03-21 07:35 ID:ANBenmJz

>>94
Oh my god, that is fucking awesome.

96 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2012-04-18 00:54 ID:XcmfubVx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_tit

97 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2012-04-23 01:19 ID:Heaven

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_elf

98 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2012-05-15 15:51 ID:Z8r37Nx/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_sexer

99 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2012-06-09 11:45 ID:kfcBaQSX

An acquaintance of mine put up a very well constructed hoax page at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpaulin_(fish)

in which he claimed that the modern English term "tarpaulin" was derived from the name of a now-extinct fish related to the stingray, possessed of durable waterproof skin, from which the first examples were made.

It stayed up for several days before admins caught on and deleted it.

100 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2012-06-10 13:07 ID:Il9vPizR

>>99

>Obvious hoax; references and image are fake, biological data is nonsensical (a manta ray with a beak?!), no relevant search results in Google.
>Speedy delete. What else could you expect from User:Sock Q. Faunce?
>Speedy delete Go to jail, do not pass go... Utter nonsense.

Doesn't sound too well constructed!

It's cases like these that make me think Wikipedia needs more of a sense of humor. I suppose they get this sort of thing daily, though.

Related:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia

101 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2012-06-18 15:40 ID:O4RkTMtZ

http://ch.chikuwachan.com/hatoya

102 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2012-06-20 20:43 ID:tOS50x7L

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sexually_active_popes

103 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2012-06-27 03:47 ID:dIc3V3tl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

104 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2012-11-15 03:56 ID:1OcTMER0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_catgirls

105 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2012-12-10 00:19 ID:UOr05X5q

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_compounds_with_unusual_names

106 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2012-12-22 07:18 ID:qHzno5at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacks_at_the_Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology

107 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2013-01-21 06:46 ID:6aNA2HSY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersectarianism

108 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2013-01-22 20:10 ID:8FuyeFR7

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_tossing

109 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2013-02-23 14:37 ID:viNSD2Or

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars
This is glorious.

110 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2013-06-04 23:29 ID:Heaven

>>109
I came here to post that.

Instead,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_American_presidential_candidates

111 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2013-11-23 13:55 ID:Ui7qepuM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMLTdm_f-dY

112 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2014-04-14 02:51 ID:oA75G4m+

Download Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

113 Name: 404 - Name Not Found : 2014-04-15 18:49 ID:yxxtT2oh

>>68
Spoilers: Nothing happened. (but it WAS my birthday on the 21st of December)

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