This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

from Lil Wyte article:

Lanshaw discovered his rapping talent at the age of nine, as he could rap Sir Mix-a-Lot's entire song "Baby Got Back" completely.

from Jim Jones article, "Early Life" section:

He claimed he would stay at a store a block from the church he attended, and would go in and hang out with the owner and when the owner left, he took all the money in the register and candy and would sell it in school, he was later expelled.

I love wikipedia articles that read like US daytime TV documentaries. It's that comma before the last little bit of information.

"South Downs" when re-released on the "The Thrill of It All" boxset was accidentally released backwards, but due to the synthetic nature of the string sound, it didn't sound weird.

Academic interpretations of Inseminoid have concentrated on its treatment of the female sex and female sexualities in the context of corruption from an alien source. In addition to its depiction of the abject Sandy, who is rendered a distorted Other in the aftermath of her unnatural impregnation, the film is seen to incorporate a clash between the patriarchal and the maternal at its climax, as the mother-to-be eliminates her former friends one at a time.

Has anyone else been enjoying Jimmy Wales face directly above the title of *every* entry?

why yes indeed we have

LOL ... in my EXCELSIOR?

nice, was wondering.

the url is really all u need
http://www.sociopathworld.com/2010/12/narcissists-in-media-jimmy-wales.html

Thank you for letting me know about a website called sociopathworld where people speculate on whether others are sociopaths. There goes my morning.

Don Johnson is also a good friend of Willie Nelson and Robert Tepper, and was briefly a part of the "Thailand Pack", alongside Tommy Morrison, and British TV funny man Les Dennis.

One oddity connected with this series relates to the lack of a collected edition hardcover book usually offered by the Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). Nearly every Star Wars book has been published in hardcover through the club. The future plans for the publication of this trilogy remains unknown.

She was one of the rare supercentenarians known for reasons other than longevity.[3].

Themes brought up are: powerlessness, family systems, arrested development, boundaries, abuse, cultural pervasiveness of sex addiction, the denial of the addict, the relationship of money and sexuality, intimacy disorders, codependence, infidelity, secrecy, prostitution, print and video pornography at home and work, discovery of sex addiction by others, and of course, addiction as a coping method for trauma and uncomfortable feelings, namely shame. The movie has received critical acclaim for its brutally realistic and extremely sensitive depiction of a sophisticated, urbane man in the throes of powerlessness.

^^ future summary of my biopic

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

Kursa Nasau is a politician from Tokelau. He is a member of the Council for the Ongoing Government of Tokelau, and is a failpule on Atafu. He also was one of the founding members of the united nations of Tokelauinian emperism in the third century after dynasty. In addition, he denies the existence of Asia and Australia but does not deny the existence of kangaroos.
Though this is seen as a win in cultural politics on the isle of Hawaï. He recently found the meaning of his life in the search for the answer to the question: "does the pope shit in the woods." Though the pope denies he does, his clairvoyant kangaroos clearly told him he does!

Hoffs was actually naked when she recorded the song, after being convinced by Sigerson that Olivia Newton-John got her amazing performances by recording everything while naked.[9]

I was so into Susanna Hoffs as a teenager that it might have killed me to know that at the time.

Its killing me to know that now!

^^^

I mean, have you seen her lately? She still looks fantastic, especially with being 52!

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

[4] The reception room of his home contained a number of pieces of ivory cutlery, deliberately intended as a pun on his name.[5]

what a cool guy

In the bio of Rich Little: In 1991 he reprised the role of Nixon as ideal sperm donors in Gina's fantasies on the soap opera Santa Barbara.

huh. the article for donkey punch contains a helpful and mildly nsfw animated gif.

"mildly"

also your username is appropriate for so many reasons right now

ha...i KNEW that's what for this thread were bumped

HA! holy shit

What are we going to do when wiki goes dark Wednesday?

Ask gygax!?

Ask Ned Day

What are we going to do when wiki goes dark Wednesday?

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, January 17, 2012 4:15 AM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is anyone else reading this to the melody of "now that we've found love"?!

or, you know, in the compatible lyric hole

"mildly"

i mean, it's only a line drawing! i clicked through some of the other sexual topics hoping the .gif was one of a series, but sadly the entry for "gerbilling" just had a picture of a boring old gerbil on it.

I dunno if this is "details" so much as "the whole damn entry is WTF":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahogany_%28band%29

References:

also known as "bands should really not write their own wikipedia articles" and "jesus christ these guys are capable of incredible pretentiousness"

Haha I know right! I thoguht I had the wrong article for half of it.

im guessing they're joking with that.

it's not out of character

rip wikipedia

If you hit "escape" before the blat screen comes up, page is yours.

^ scab

They made it like that for a reason, I'm sure.

whatever helps you sleep at night

what's the cheat code to bring back the picture of that contributor girl with 18000 edits?

+ phone number plz

Nick Drake is the featured article on blackout day. Still being snubbed after all these years.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxzcrtxnzC1qzs5cqo1_1280.png