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20th June 2008

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Deleted articles with freaky titles →

There is a Wikipedia page for “deleted articles with freaky titles”.

Occasionally Wikipedians lose their mind (especially on April Fool’s Day) and if their posts are good they wind up here. Silliness can come in the form of creativity, insanity, or just boredom. As with other “silly things”, often it seems a shame to delete the best of this humor which has been submitted to us under the GFDL.

Couple of favourites:

• “22.86 Centimetre Nails”, which forwarded to the Nine Inch Nails article (“Trent Reznor is not likely to go metric any time soon”)
• “Big Fucking Sandwich”
• “Category: Fictional windows” (“The result of its deletion debate was ‘defenestrate’”)
• “List of people who died with tortoises on their heads”
• “MY SISTER GIVES GREAT HEAD!”
• “Nooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooo” (“Yes, Luke, Darth Vader is your father. This was a redirect to the Darth Vader article.”)
• “The word parakeet written exactly 254 times” (“Article consisted of the word “Parakeet” written exactly 255 times.”)

They were all titles of Wikipedia articles. Brilliant.