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Meta Discussion Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of August 31, 2026
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r/wikipedia • u/funnylib • 3h ago
“Good tsar, bad boyars” is a Russian phrase referring to a political phenomenon in which positive actions taken by the government are viewed as being the result of the leader, while negative actions are viewed as being caused by lower-level bureaucrats unbeknownst to the leader.
r/wikipedia • u/UltraNooob • 7h ago
The Jenin Horse was a sculpture built in 2003 in Jenin, Palestine, out of metal salvaged from areas destroyed in the Second Intifada. In the first few months of the Gaza war, the horse and other monuments in Jenin were dismantled by the IDF
r/wikipedia • u/Loretaro • 2h ago
My boss wants me to create a Wikipedia page about him. Is that actually possible, or is that not how Wikipedia works?
I need to know how to create a Wikipedia profile for someone. My boss has asked me to create a profile for him on Wikipedia, but I’m not sure how feasible this is or how to go about the process.
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 4h ago
China's final warning: Russian idiom for an empty threat. Cold War US-China relations re: Taiwan were marked by formal CCP protests in the form of a "serious warning". The 1st such warning came in '58; by '71, there had been 497 & these gravely reported threats became a joke among Soviet observers.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 23h ago
Baby M was the pseudonym of an Australian girl who was born with severe birth defects. Doctors and her parents chose comfort care. “Right to Life” activists found out and called the cops on them. When Baby M died at age 12 days, the activists accused her parents and the hospital of murder.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 11h ago
Elena Mukhina (1960–2006) was a Soviet gymnast who won the all-around title at the 1978 World Championships in Strasbourg, France. Her career was on the rise, and she was widely touted as the next great gymnastics star until 1979, when she broke a leg and missed several competitions.
r/wikipedia • u/tangawusi_dev • 12h ago
From today's featured article: Anfield is a football stadium in the area of Anfield, Liverpool, England, which has been the home of Liverpool Football Club since their formation in 1892.
r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 10h ago
The Sun Gym gang were responsible for the murders of Frank Griga and Krisztina Furton and attempted murder of Marc Schiller in the mid 1990s. The gang was composed mostly of bodybuilders who frequented the Sun Gym in Miami.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 1d ago
Anti-Obscenity Enforcement Act: Alabama law currently in effect banning the sale of sex toys. Its most outspoken backers have been conservative Christians led by Dan Ireland of the Alabama Citizens' Action Program, who cites safety: "sometimes you have to protect the public against themselves".
r/wikipedia • u/SculpinIPAlcoholic • 20h ago
Irish Americans are Americans of Irish ancestry. Facing America’s rampant anti-Irish sentiment in the 19th and 20th centuries, many formed their own communities in urban areas. Irish-Americans greatly influenced American culture, and many U.S. citizens still identify their ethnicity as Irish.
r/wikipedia • u/iusethisatw0rk • 1d ago
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a psychiatric treatment that causes a generalized seizure by passing electrical current through the brain. ECT is often used as an intervention for mental disorders when other treatments are thought to be inadequate.
Had my third session today. Was terrified to start. My first question after waking from my first session was “is it ok I haven’t fallen asleep yet?” Met with a fun “the procedures done, man.” Couldn’t believe it
Been fighting depression and suicidal ideation since I started to really understand what death is. Decades. Here’s hoping this will help!
r/wikipedia • u/Sebastianlim • 14h ago
"Dactylic hexameter", the poetic meter used by ancient epics such as the Iliad and the Odyssey. Though it is used in languages today, it is considered extremely difficult to use for English poems.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Grima_096 • 1d ago
The 1984 New Zealand general election was a snap election called by Prime Minister Robert Muldoon. He was noticeably drunk when announcing the snap election on TV, leading to the election being dubbed the “schnapps election”
r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 1d ago
In 2020 Samuel Paty, a French secondary school teacher, was killed and beheaded by an Islamic terrorist. One of Paty's students had alleged that in a class on freedom of expression, he had shown his students Charlie Hebdo's 2012 cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad. The student admitted to lying.
r/wikipedia • u/slinkslowdown • 1d ago
Exploding head syndrome (EHS) is classified as a sleep disorder or headache disorder. It occurs when someone falls asleep or wakes up to loud auditory hallucinations.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 4h ago
FARC dissidents are groups of former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who refused to lay down their arms after the Colombian peace process concluded in 2016, and, in some cases, have resumed their insurgency against the government of Colombia.
en.wikipedia.orgDespite claiming to still follow the leftist ideology of FARC, many dissidents are more motivated in their continuing struggle against the government by difficulty with reintegrating into civilian society, a desire to protect themselves from other paramilitary or crime groups, and criminal connections. Dissident groups would become part of the rivalries between the different drug cartels, allying with some and fighting against others.
r/wikipedia • u/SaxyBill • 1d ago
If a film released in theatres fails to break even by a large amount, it is considered a box-office bomb. The five biggest box-office bombs of all time are (under nominal est. loss): The Marvels, John Carter, Strange World, the Lone Ranger, and Mortal Enemies.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Nenazovemy • 1d ago
Jim Goad was an American far-right author and publisher. His death (either by suicide or by illness) was only reported by generally unreliable sources, leaving his status on Wikipedia as alive.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Ill-Scene8799 • 8h ago
Meta Discussion Why is the page for the .xyz domain name always on the "Top read" of English Wikipedia?
Every time I go on Wikipedia on my phone, the page for the .xyz top-level domain is almost always in the top 10 or top 5. I cannot find any discussion or news as for why this is the case, and this has been occurring for the past few months. It bothers me and I find it very suspicious (maybe related to a scam). Does anyone know why?
r/wikipedia • u/emerald6_Shiitake • 1d ago
Freedom Fuel (also known as the Freedom Fuel Network) is a network of American gas stations operating under a common retail brand in Pennsylvania and New Jersey that sells gas at a discounted rate
It's owner isn't publicly disclosed, but it was reported that the Kazmi brothers control most of its locations. Furthermore, as of late Aug 2026 the same Kazmi brothers are being sued for selling stolen fuel from Mansfield Oil Company
r/wikipedia • u/InvisibleEar • 6h ago
Brace's emerald is an extinct species of hummingbird which was endemic to the Bahamas. The only known specimen was shot by Lewis Brace in 1877.
r/wikipedia • u/Not_Original5756 • 3h ago
The Complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir is a clay tablet sent to the ancient city-state of Ur, written c. 1750 BC. The tablet documents a transaction in which Ea-nāṣir, a trader, allegedly sold substandard copper to a customer named Nanni.
r/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 1d ago
Myanmar has been in armed conflict since 1948, when the country, then known as Burma, gained independence from the United Kingdom. It is the world's longest ongoing civil war, spanning almost eight decades.
The Tatmadaw have been accused of using "scorched earth" tactics against civilians. The accusations include burning down entire villages, planting landmines, using civilians as slave labour, using civilians as minesweepers, and using civilians as sex slaves. According to a report by legal firm DLA Piper, whose report was presented to the United Nations Security Council, these tactics have been identified as ethnic cleansing.