This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

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GZA explores many motifs and themes, such as chess, crime and philosophy.

lady burt stanton (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), are you 82.24.167.192? I note that that edit was only made on 5th March. It is, of course, quite easy to edit any wikipedia page, insert something absurd, then do a quick screen grab before the edit gets reverted.

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lady burt stanton (the schef (adam schefter ha ha)), are you 93.106.227.48? I have noticed some vvv strange edits being made on Wikipedia from this IP address, and honestly, I suspect you.

She's not 93.106.227.48 at all! Based on her WDYLL pics I'd guess she's about 36.29.38

:-)

oh dear...this was one of my favourite threads as well.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c102/OfMarrow/coulterapple.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chopper_Read&action=edit&undoafter=276024170&undo=276064593

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathory_(band)

In an interview Quorthon stated that he was not conscripted for Sweden's army because of his long hair.

page: Jesse Katsopolis

Relationships

In the episode 13 Candles, it is revealed that his first kiss was with Diane Van Zant.

During the show's first season, he is seen with several girlfriends. Some of them are:
Vanessa ("Our Very First Show")
Adrianna ("Daddy's Home")
Robin ("Half a Love Story")
Jill ("Half a Love Story")
Samantha ("The Seven-Month Itch, Part I")
Roxanne (Sea Cruise)
Eva Braun (World War II)

irlol

Ronald Fraser

The pallbearers at his funeral were Sean Connery, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward (who had played his son in The Misfit) and Chris Evans.

Sailors sometimes called Madagascar "Island of the Moon",[12] a name by which it is referenced in the 1988 single "'Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)'" by artist Enya.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was homosexual, and the 32nd President of the United States.

However, despite some areas of Europe, such as Norway, still clinging to the use of oats in brewing until the early part of the 20th century, the practice had largely died out by the sixteenth century, so much so that in 1513 Tudor sailors refused to drink oat beer offered to them because of the bitter flavour.[15][16]

stupid Tudors.

same article:
Benjamin Disraeli is said to have enjoyed a meal of oysters and Guinness in the 19th century, though by the 20th century oyster beds were in decline, and stout had given way to pale ale.

(Kristen) Bell has also stated that she still has the Catholic school uniform she wore in high school and is planning on wearing it on her wedding night .[50]

Actually Kristen Bell's entire "personal life" section is filled with desultory facts that are tinged with heavy creep factor.

It's not exactly wikipedia, but I had to post this somewhere:

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i would pay a large sum of money for a night with kristen bell in a schoolgirl uniform.
i don't care if this makes me a crepe to some of you.

Kristen Bell is from Royal Oak. Neat.

It's not exactly wikipedia, but I had to post this somewhere:

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Ask Tuomas!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism#Radical_feminist_theory_and_ideology

Maybe you mean this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radical_feminism&diff=281449271&oldid=281343729

Gaylord Perry was named after a close friend of his father's, who died while having his teeth pulled.[3]

i thought this was pretty sweet:
Košarka (meaning basketball in Macedonian and Serbo-Croat) is an abandoned Turkish village in the mountains of the eastern mountain valley of the municipality Demir Kapija in the Republic of Macedonia. Most of its residents moved down, close to the highway to develop another village, Laki. Laki is not a registered village, yet, but electricity has been brought to the villagers. There is a fountain where the village used to be, yet, difficult to find, as the footpath has been worn, hardly ever used.

also i browsed Yello and its bandmembers, and it's quite a mess.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lambie_(footballer_born_1940)

Lambie left the club in March 1996 after a well publicised incident in which an enraged supporter, Keith G (for Grrr) Young, allegedly attempted to run the manager's car off the road.

browsed Yello and its bandmembers, and it's quite a mess

Went and had a look - Blank is pretty much a stub, didn't see anything especially wrong with Meier, and the main Yello one is obviously just written by many ESL hands, was there anything particularly unusual that leapt out?

[The French town of] Ferney was first noted in 14th-century Burgundian registers as "Fernex." Four centuries later, however, Voltaire changed the "x" to a "y" due to the excessive number of towns in the region with names ending in "x," such as Maconnex, Saconnex, Gex, Versonnex, Ornex.

My preferred unusual wikipedia details are those where I can't tell whether it's interesting actual facts or someone making stuff up!

(aka [citation needed])

Haha there's more, whatta guy:

The château includes the main building, with a reconstruction of Voltaire's room (moved from its original location by later private owners), a garden with a fine view of the Alps, and a church dedicated, contrary to custom, directly to God. In the church's inscription, "Deo erexit VOLTAIRE" ("Erected to God by VOLTAIRE"), Voltaire's name is written in the largest characters.

Steve Summers (born Steve Podwal) is the singer of the American hard rock band Pretty Boy Floyd (not to be confused with the now defunct Canadian band of the same name). Summers has appeared on all of the band's albums to date and boasts that he earned the nickname "Sex" for his sexual prowess.

On the Beach Boys' last album, released 1992:

The album sold very badly (reportedly less than 1,000 copies) and was received less favorably than any album put out by the band to date. Critics attacked the album upon release and are still going at it today.

The Roger Rabbit dance

The Roger Rabbit became a popular dance move in the early 1990s.[37][38] It was named after the floppy movements of the Roger Rabbit cartoon character. In movement, the Roger Rabbit dance is similar to the Running Man, but done by skipping backwards with arms performing a flapping gesture. Both The Running Man and The Roger Rabbit have since been called "outdated."[39]

Went and had a look - Blank is pretty much a stub, didn't see anything especially wrong with Meier, and the main Yello one is obviously just written by many ESL hands, was there anything particularly unusual that leapt out?

this entire page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Peron

and i'd say the entire life story of Dieter Meier is unusual. ("one time member of the Swiss golf team" "industrialist keeping himself busy with art exhibitions" like a plaque saying:

On March 23 1994, from 3 to 4 pm, Dieter Meier will stand on this plaque". He honored the promise 22 years later

so yeah you're right, there's nothing really wrong, but it did amuse me (i knew nothing about Yello before visiting those pages)

ah yeah, if you'd never known about Meier, that could come off as one grand wikivandalism prank!

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

Indomie® Mi goreng is an instant noodles product line made under the Indomie brand by the Indofood company, the world's largest instant noodle manufacturer, located in Indonesia. It is distributed in many countries around the world.

We must stop buying palm oil products if we want to save the critically endangered orang-utan.

“Only 7000 orang-utans are left, in Indonesia and Malaysia, due to their homes in the rainforests being cut down,” says Dr Peter Pratje, the director of Sumatran Orang-utan Conservation Programme (SOCP).

Shame on Indofood for using palm oil.

Not a lol at wikipedia; a lol at the French and their administrative divisions... Background: the most local level of administration in France is the commune, of which there are about 36 000. For instance, the city of Paris is one, with more than two million people, then there is...Rochefourchat:

Rochefourchat is a commune in the Drôme department in the Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France. In the commune there is a single house, a converted barn, and the ruins of an old castle. The nearest communes to Rochefourchat are Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert, Les Tonils, Pradelle and Brette.

As of the 1999 census, there was just one permanent inhabitant, a 38-year old divorced man.

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

In some American homes, ham and cheese sandwiches are a common element of hastily prepared, impromptu home meals. Thus, in a detective novel we read:

Bosch went into the the kitchen and got a beer out and made a ham and cheese sandwich. He stood by the sink eating and drinking and trying to organize things about the case in his head.[2]

[2]

Well it's only fair that Mr Connelly is credited for his literary effort.

During his time at the Dutch club Ajax, Benni McCarthy and then teammate Mario Melchiot formed a critically acclaimed jazz expressionist band, Benni and The Melting Melchiots. Releasing one album, Benni and Mario Go South. A change in musical direction forced the duo to put the band on indefinite hiatus. Although a reunion is believed to highly possible in late 2009.

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

In an episode of Roseanne, Roseanne has a dream after having undergone breast reduction surgery. She goes to the mirror and realizes that she has comically larger breasts than before. Doogie Howser (Harris) comes in and asks an upset Roseanne if they were supposed to be bigger than they are in the dream. Dan steps and excitedly remarks "Way to go, Doogie!" before Roseanne passes out. She wakes up to realize it was only a dream.

Skirting board incident

On Thursday 17 March, 1983 Dustin Gee purchased four packs of 6 foot skirting board from Wickes Building Supplies on Stirling Road, York. Gee was helping a friend with a DIY project at his home on Hall Rise in the nearby village of Haxby. Gee inexpertly lashed the packs of skirting board onto the roof of his brand new Austin Maestro. Gee drove down the A1237 towards his friend's house. However, as he turned left at the roundabout onto Haxby Road, the packs of skirting boards slid loose and caused two other vehicles to collide. Local magistrates subsequently fined Gee and endorsed his driving licence with penalty points. Gee spoke to the local press about the incident and said, “I’m not a very practical sort of person. Today, I learnt a lesson. Tomorrow I'll learn how to tie a proper knot.”.

It is conceivably possible that Richard Herring has vandalised "Andrew Gonk Collins" wikipedia entry:

In the podcast he often makes reference to Herring's collection of 80s toys and in particular to his massive lifesized pork cutlass of which he is particularly envious.

and i'd say the entire life story of Dieter Meier is unusual. ("one time member of the Swiss golf team" "industrialist keeping himself busy with art exhibitions" like a plaque saying:

On March 23 1994, from 3 to 4 pm, Dieter Meier will stand on this plaque". He honored the promise 22 years later

All this is pretty much consistent with what Dieter Meier has told of himself in all the interviews I've read. Of course it could all be an elaborate hoax perpetrated by him (this would actually fit his character), but I wouldn't imagine some random Wikipedia contributor doing independent research on Meier's life.

The performance piece where he placed a plaque at a railway station in 1972 saying that he would stand there in 1994, and then kept his promise in 1994, has been documented though, I've seen pictures of it.

That same year, whilst covering the war in Bosnia Bell was seriously wounded by shrapnel while recording a report. The grenade was fired by Serbian forces. He is often noted for wearing a white suit.