Wikipedia bans a number of pro-innocence Michael Jackson editors for collaborating off-Wikipedia, faking consensus
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Founded in 1970, the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) is a traditionalist Catholic group that rejects Second Vatican Council reforms, utilizes the Latin Tridentine Mass. Following illicit bishop consecrations in 1988 and 2026, the Holy See declared the society schismatic and its members excommunicated
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Erling Haaland
Erling Braut Haaland (born 21 July 2000) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Manchester City and the Norway national team.
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The roan horse controversy: For a long time in Europe, it was believed that horses with the roan gene only existed in heterozygous form, and that homozygous roan foals either would not be carried to term, or would be stillborn. The Wikipedia page has included studies that refute this since 2009.
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AI slop (also known as slop content or simply slop) is digital content made with generative artificial intelligence that is perceived as lacking in effort, quality, or meaning, and produced in high volume as clickbait to gain advantage in the attention economy, or earn money.
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The youngest jihadist to die in the Syrian Civil War was 17-year-old Jaffar Deghayes, one of three brothers from Brighton, England who ran away together with friends to fight with Al-Nusra Front. Only one of the five Brighton jihadists, Jaffar’s brother Amer Deghayes, is still alive today.
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Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet
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Abdur Rahman Khan, also known as the Iron Emir, was Emir of Afghanistan from 11 August 1880 until his death on 1 October 1901. He was known for uniting Afghanistan, and for negotiating the Durand Line with the British Empire. He ordered 100,000 executions and slaughtered over half the Hazara people.
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Urechis unicinctus, the fat innkeeper worm, is a species of marine spoon worm from East Asia. In Korea, they are eaten raw with salt, sesame oil or gochujang. The worm’s Korean name, Gaebul, means a dog’s testicle or penis.
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The Chekka Massacre (Arabic: مجزرة شكا) occurred on July 5, 1976, when Palestinian and Lebanese National Movement fighters killed approximately 200 people in the Christian towns of Chekka and Hamat during the Lebanese Civil War.
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The Mitford sisters were the daughters in an aristocratic British family described by one journalist as "Diana the Fascist, Jessica the Communist, Unity the Hitler-lover, Nancy the Novelist, Deborah the Duchess and Pamela the unobtrusive poultry connoisseur."
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The Perry Index is a widely used index of "Aesop's Fables" or "Aesopica", the fables credited to Aesop, the storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BC. The index was created by Ben Edwin Perry, a professor of classics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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The formatting on Hockey Wikipedia pages is inexcusably trash.
Look at Wayne Gretzky’s wiki page. Would a new fan be able to tell you how many Stanley cups he has? What years he played for the Kings? How many all-star appearances he has? His record as a coach?
Compare this to LeBron James’ Wiki page or Tom Brady’s Wiki page. How many championships, all-star appearances, and dates played for which team are all front and center.
This has been discussed and the common rebuttal is that team years will make the info box ‘cluttered.’ This is nonsense.
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Stonewall is a 2015 film. The film is set in and around the 1969 Stonewall riots that sparked the gay liberation movement in NYC. It received largely negative reviews. Stonewall historian David Carter called the film "a very lame and inaccurate portrayal."
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Space Marine is a character archetype describing a spacefaring soldier in science-fiction. The archetype is perhaps best known from Space Marines of Warhammer 40,000 universe, but it was first used in fiction as early as 1936 in short story "Captain Brink of the Space Marines".
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The Coca-Cola Company contacted Donovan to discuss directly basing the soda's name on his hit 1960's song "Mellow Yellow," which itself was named after a dildo called the "Mellow Yellow." This makes Mello Yello the only mass-produced soda whose name is known to derive from a dildo.
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Blue Fugates are an ancestral family living in the hills of Kentucky where they are known for having a genetic trait that led to the blood disorder methemoglobinemia, causing the skin to be blue.
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"Spanish Prisoner" is a 19th century scam similar to modern "Nigerian Prince" scams and its variations. The scam claimed that an imprisoned rich man abroad needs funds to get out of prison and access his wealth for generous repayment, which often included marrying his supposed beautiful daughter.
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Iron Widow is a 2021 young adult science fantasy novel by Canadian writer Xiran Jay Zhao. The novel is a mecha reimagining of the rise of China’s first and only female Emperor Wu Zetian set in the nation of Huaxia, a futuristic reinterpretation of Medieval China. Iron Widow is a bestseller.
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John Orr is an American convicted serial arsonist, mass murderer and former firefighter. A fire captain and arson investigator in California, Orr believed to have set nearly 2,000 fires in a 30-year arson spree making him the most prolific serial arsonist in U.S history.
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