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User:Crunchydillpickle/cool

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First versions of articles, 2001 oddities, etc:

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  • Beauty
  • Fetus
  • fly
  • Ant
  • Titanic film
  • Archimedes includes a note to add the "eureka thing"
  • Kansas State University talk page
  • Old Iowa article accidentally says Dick Clark was a senator
  • The first "List of comedians" had only three items: Groucho Marx, Marx Brothers, and George Carlin
  • first Latvia article called it "small and nice country in EasternEurope"
  • first Gangsta rap article's writer clearly loved Ice T haha
  • Earth
  • Yogurt article didn’t exist til December 11 2002 which seems kinda late
  • Woman left a bit to be desired.
  • Back in 2001, Race (the human categorization) shared the same article as race (the competition of speed over distance).
  • Evil got its own article a long time before good.

Articles that have existed for a surprisingly long time or a surprisingly short time

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  • The Balloon-Hoax article existed September 29, 2001, very early in the encyclopedia's history.
  • Biggest ball of twine has existed since 2005-04-28
  • I knew that early Wikipedia editors were (and kinda still are) academically-inclined hacker dudes, but it's crazy when you realize the article about mole day, created January 2002, is an entire year older than the article "hip hop music" and five years older than "fashion show"
  • there were months when wikipedia had an article about Mole Day (created January 2002), a fake holiday celebrated in chemistry class, but not Kolkata or hip hop music. Mole Day is five years older than fashion show!
  • Laid edges didn't exist until the end of 2023
  • Evil has been around a lot longer than Good

Essays and stuff to read

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  1. User:JPxG/All essays by size
  2. User:Tony1/How to improve your writing
  3. User:Antandrus/observations on Wikipedia behavior
  4. Wikipedia:Writing about women
  5. User:Giano/A fool's guide to writing a featured article
  6. User:Ihcoyc/The problem of anti-supernatural bias
  7. User:SandyGeorgia/Achieving excellence through featured content
  8. User:Tony1/How to improve your writing

Discussions to check out

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If there were a podcast with 5 min episodes in which Wikipedia editors talked about one silly or interesting articles they'd written, here's who I would want to be on it:

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Interesting sentences

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  • In an RfA: “Support - Nancy impressed me with her (many) swift reverts of vandalism over at Bread clip, so I'm pleased to support her here. Cumulus Clouds” idk just an odd sentence lol.
  • Also, Fish and karate made shoe polish an FA. Another good sentence
  • “The seeds of compromise need to be watered and nurtured, not fried in hot oil for an afternoon snack!” - the Foreskin talk page

Images or graphics about TV or movies:

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Wikipedia articles

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Wikipedia editors who I think are cool and/or interesting

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  • User:MER-C appears to do some of the most thankless administrative work, like contributor copyright investigations and conflict of interest enforcement.
  • Risker’s userpage has a list of milestones. I like this one: “Orangemoody paid editing sockpuppetry investigation - a different kind of answer to "So what did you do last summer?””
  • User:The person who loves reading’s user page starts with: “Hi, everybody! I am an editor who loves reading.”
  • Grumpylawnchair’s userpage has a photo of a lawn chair captioned “Me chilling on a nice lawn.”
  • User:Shadow345110 grew, according to his userpage infobox, from 5’9 in 2023 to 5’10 in 2024
  • I'm sad I never got to meet Possibly but I like the section of his userpage called "New name: Possibly" that says: "Formerly ThatMontrealIP. Out of curiosity I looked up the account Possibly. It turned out that the account had only made two edits, fourteen years ago. That made it possible to usurp the account. Is this new name better than the old one? Possibly."
  • Shearonink’s userpage stars with “Sometimes...sometimes I find little articles and I feel sorry for them. So I try to fix them up and hope they stay around.” Has 9 GAs, 2 FAs, and tons of barnstars, many of which are for patiently helping newbies on IRC. My fav thing is that the barnstars they give out say “Congrats, it’s a….” and then in a smaller font “Wikipedia Good Article!!”
  • I like the old userpage of User:Miranda, where her list of interests include scrapbooking, university Greek life, America’s Next Top Model, law, and fashion. I like when Wikipedians proclaim interest in stereotypically feminine topics, mostly just because it doesn't seem to happen as much as it should. Her top-edited articles were Alpha Kappa Alpha, Seth MacFarlane, and list of Alpha Kappa Alpha members and she made 34k edits overall, mostly in 2007. Her last edit was in 2012 :(
  • MelanieN got a COI notice (automated, I hope) for changing a comma in the Donald Trump article because her name is close to Melania Trump. She is, however, not Melania Trump!
  • I like Guy Vandegrift not only for his contributions to science articles but also because his name sounds like a parody of a person who doesn’t know what they’re talking about (yet he seems to know what he's talking about).
  • Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Plants/Fruits is amazing. So many of the featured fruits were photographed by User:Iifar AKA Ivar Leidus, an Estonian railway engineer who was the subject of a Diff article in 2013. He joined Wikipedia in September 2011 after seeing banners on Estonian Wikipedia for the Wiki Loves Monuments contest.
  • User:Basket of Puppies is retired and their user page says “Don't get excited; I am only here to edit Spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leak.”
  • wholesome away message from Llywrch in 2006: I'll be away from Wikipedia until the end of May: it's not a Wikivacation, but a real tourist-style vacation involving travel, sun, sand & amusement parks. (I may stop by once or twice before then, but I'm not promising to respond to queries or even edit an article or talk page if I do.)"
  • the person who created an alt account on valentines day “in memory of one of his girlfriend" lol
  • At ScottishFinnishRadish’s RfA, after answering some questions, he wrote “every time I grab my wife's chromebook to answer these questions, rather than trying to do it on my phone, my wife says, 'Why don't you answer for your crimes, you Scottish Finnish Bitch!" She doesn't really understand what an RFA is, or what this discussion entails, but that line is absolutely hilarious and everyone needs a good chuckle in a discussion like this"
  • None of User:Aboutmovies’ 32 good articles are about movies, and neither is his career (attorney in Oregon). In contract, all of User:Rusted AutoParts’ 32 GAs are movies
  • User:Xwomanizerx wrote 32 GAs, almost all about Britney Spears.
  • User:Sims2aholic8 wrote 29 GAs between 2008 and 2024, literally all of them about Eurovision.
  • The userpage of User:NoD’ohnuts says “My real name is Ryan and I am a high schooler in Kansas, the state. And I know what your thinking a high schooler with a wikipedia account. NEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDD! Well...your partly right.” What’s amazing is that he has 33 Good Articles, mostly about episodes of The Simpsons and The Office.
  • Many Wikipedians run their own websites. The admin Nick Moyes runs a livestream of peregrine falcons in a Derby Cathedral. Unrelatedly, he also made the first Flora of Derbyshire book since 1969. Stamp-focused editor Stan Shebs maintains StampData.com, a resource he says has 744,000 stamps so far and hosts many of his stamp-related WP articles, even the deleted ones (like "List of people on the postage stamps of Zambia", "List of people on the postage stamps of Eswatini" etc). Dan Koehl, a Swedish elephant trainer in Cambodia, joined Wikipedia in 2002 and created the elephant encyclopedia in 2005
  • VictorianMutant “Dated a girl about 5 years ago who was an administrator, so I know a little about wikiculture.”
  • Kingoflettuce, who I met at a conference, has had a “Potato production in x” habit, like Potato production in Cambodia, Potato production in China, Potato production in Nigeria, Potato production in Zimbabwe. He also wrote the MrBeast article in 2018 which gets crazy traffic these days!
  • User:Wizardman did a 2013 Reddit AMA, and wrote that saw and enjoyed the Colbert bit that made fun of his username (it was June 4 2009 and the joke was like "good thing the arbitration committee is full of people that sound trustworthy like wizardman" or something). Colbert also mentioned Carcharoth, Newyorkbard, and Wizardman.“Spat my drink out first time I watched it,” he wrote.

Cool username info

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  • User:Voice of Clam’s username was inspired by a typo in a church sheet (“Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire, oh still small voice of clam)
  • Ice Welder’s username was inspired by Wikihow's "How to Make a Unique Username" article (“Try using two favorites from different categories. For instance, if you love ice hockey and creating art out of scrap metal, you might become "IceWelder.”)
  • Another username explanation that tickled me: Dora the Axe-plorer, who has written dozens and dozens of earthquake articles as well as Seoul Halloween crowd crush, wrote that he chose his username because he used to like Dora The Explorer but then started watching slasher films.
  • User:78.26 wrote "From whence does this humorless numerical handle originate? It is the precise speed of most high-speed phonograph records (commonly called "78s") in North America." Oh, of course!
  • Infrogmation, a part-time trombone player (and radio host, and jazz writer, etc) has had an account since 2002 and says he chose his username because “after I wore a frog costume for Mardi Gras, some people called me ‘Froggy’”
  • “Hello, I'm Relativity (the Wikipedian, not the concept.)” said the user Relativity.
  • “Hello! I'm Roundish. It's pronounced like 'Potato'". -Roundish's user page.
  • "My username's kind of stupid (I was 13 or so when I made it), but I can't really think of anything to change it to." -ThePlatypusofDoom
  • Joke by FourViolas about the username FourViolas: "So, this violist is coming home from a gig (that's not the joke). He stops to get some groceries, and as he's standing in the checkout line he realizes, to his horror, that he parked under a streetlight and left his viola on the back seat in plain view! He drops his bags and sprints outside, but it's too late: somebody has already smashed the back window and thrown in three more violas."
  • A user called “power” failed a request for adminship.
  • User:Supercool Dude. Joined in 2004 and has an interesting and unusual userpage with lots of info. “Everyone keeps asking Supercool Dude, how he got his screenname. One day in 1963, his father bought their family their very first Air Conditioner. That Summer it was very hot outside and he walked up to the huge A/C and turned the machine on super cool and he stood there cooling off and said out loud, "I am one super cool dude!”.

Wikipedian signatures I think are cool:

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Real sentences that were written

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  • “The seeds of compromise need to be watered and nurtured, not fried in hot oil for an afternoon snack!” - the Foreskin talk page

Cool redirects

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Diagrams that kinda look like they were made in MS Paint

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Wikipede books
 
The real me by Achraf Baznani
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