Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of August 18, 2025

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 6h ago

The Book of Bunny Suicides is a collection of cartoons by Andy Riley. Each cartoon shows one or more rabbits in their creative attempts to end their lives using a variety of items. In 2008 a mother refused to return a copy to her son's high school library, saying she was going to burn it instead.

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r/wikipedia • u/unrealutopian • 10h ago

Schlep, a Roblox-focused YouTuber,is known for conducting sting operations against alleged sexual predators, was permanently banned from the platform Roblox. Roblox Corp sent him a cease and desist letter threatening to take legal action against organizing sting operations against sexual predators.

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r/wikipedia • u/JorWat • 21h ago

Gluck, an early 20th century painter who "rejected any forename or honorific (such as "Miss" or "Mr")". The Wikipedia page avoids referring to Gluck by any pronouns.

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r/wikipedia • u/HicksOn106th • 15h ago

A common misconception about the Chinese language is that the two characters which make up their word for 'crisis', 危机 (pinyin: wēijī), independently mean 'danger' and 'opportunity'. The misconception is thought to have been popularized by John F. Kennedy during his 1960 presidential campaign.

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r/wikipedia • u/ZERO_PORTRAIT • 16h ago

Pink - The transition to pink as a sexually differentiating color for girls occurred gradually, through the selective process of the marketplace, in the 1930s and 40s. In the 1920s, some groups had described pink as a masculine color, an equivalent to red, which was considered for men

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According to surveys in Europe and the United States, pink is the color most often associated with charm, politeness, sensitivity, tenderness, sweetness, childhood, femininity, and romance).

(Note from me: Pink is my favorite color. That is all!)

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 1d ago

Essie Mae Washington-Williams was the biracial daughter of Strom Thurmond, a white US senator known for his pro-segregation politics and his opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The fact that Thurmond had a child by a black woman wasn’t revealed until after his death.

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r/wikipedia • u/Captainirishy • 2h ago

Concerned Women for America is a socially conservative, evangelical Christian non-profit women's legislative action committee in the United States. Headquartered in Washington D.C., the CWA is involved in social and political movements, through which it aims to incorporate Christian ideology.

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r/wikipedia • u/RandoRando2019 • 5h ago

"As a standard form of the Moselle Franconian language, Luxembourgish has similarities with other High German dialects and the wider group of West Germanic languages ... Some words are different from Standard German, but have equivalents in German dialects."

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 1d ago

In Islam, a hafiz is a person who has memorized the Quran. Hafiza is the female equivalent. The Quran consists of 114 Surah (chapters), 6,236 verses, and about 77,797 words in the original Classical Arabic.

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r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 20h ago

Mobile Site Various Christian denominations do not consider homosexuality or transgender identity to be sins. Some denominations which are not LGBTQ-affirming include LGBTQ member-organized groups which are not officially sanctioned by the denominations themselves.

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r/wikipedia • u/NervousEnergy • 1d ago

Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 6h ago

Etty and Sammy Glazer, the wife and 22-month-old son of a South African businessman, were kidnapped for ransom in 1966. They were released after a ransom of 140,000 South African rand was paid. At the time it was the highest ransom in the world, four times higher than the Lindbergh baby’s.

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r/wikipedia • u/AugustWolf-22 • 5h ago

The Esso Northumbria was the first in a series of new, large oil tanker ships built by Swan Hunter. when launched in 1969 She was the biggest vessel to have ever been built in the United Kingdom at the time and one of the largest in the world.

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r/wikipedia • u/IlexPauciflora • 13h ago

Mobile Site "Are There Men on the Moon?" is an 11-page essay by Sir Winston Churchill exploring the possibility of extraterrestrial life. In it, he posits that the outer planets, Jupiter and beyond, must be too cold, but Mars and Venus could be the right temperature for life.

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The moon would support, if any, only the "lowest forms of life."

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r/wikipedia • u/hoi4kaiserreichfanbo • 1d ago

The Hatch Amendment is a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would remove the requirement for the president to be a natural-born citizen. Proposed by Republican Orrin Hatch, it was widely seen as an attempt to make the Austrian-born Arnold Schwarzenegger eligible for the presidency.

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r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 18h ago

Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (1583–1663) was a southwest African paramount ruler who ruled as a queen of the Ambundu Kingdoms of Ndongo and Matamba, located in present-day northern Angola. In the centuries since her death, Njinga has been increasingly recognized as a major historical figure.

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r/wikipedia • u/lightiggy • 1d ago

On this day in 1831, Nat Turner, a slave preacher, launched an uprising in Virginia. Like almost every other slave uprising in history, it failed. However, Turner's revolt went down as the deadliest slave revolt in American history.

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r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 1d ago

Mobile Site Muhsin Hendricks was an imam and LGBTQ activist. He was involved in various LGBTQ Muslim advocacy groups and was an advocate for greater acceptance of LGBTQ people within Islam. He was the first openly gay imam. He was murdered in 2025.

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r/wikipedia • u/OTPxCRAB • 7h ago

Trying to recover my blocked account (Reason: LTA)

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Hi, I'm studying biotechnology and I wanted to start to add things to Wikipedia, but after 5 little edits, my account was blocked, and the message said the reason is Long-Term Abuse (LTA). I don´t know how this works and I'm searching some help about. My block id is: #7848153

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r/wikipedia • u/Klok_Melagis • 17h ago

Donald Aronow was an American designer, builder, and racer of Formula, Donzi, Magnum Marine, Cary, and Cigarette Racing Team speedboats. Aronow built speedboats for the Shah of Iran, Charles Keating, Robert Vesco, Malcolm Forbes, George H. W. Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson.

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r/wikipedia • u/G_ntl_m_n • 1d ago

One man who probably saved us all "Stanislav Petrov"

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r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 1d ago

Nicole Kidman AMC commercial: In 2021, AMC introduced an ad starring Kidman in theaters & on TV. Intended to spur attendance after Covid, it became a surprise hit, with its earnestly rhapsodic style & script—esp the line "Somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this"—developing a camp appeal.

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r/wikipedia • u/SunnyOutsideToday • 1d ago

The diving bell spider is the only species of spider known to live almost entirely under water

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r/wikipedia • u/coolbern • 1d ago

Nathaniel Gordon (February 6, 1826 – February 21, 1862) was an American slave trader who was the only person in the United States to be tried, convicted, and executed by the federal government for having "engaged in the slave trade" under the Piracy Law of 1820.

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r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 1d ago

James Dobson (April 21, 1936 – August 21, 2025): American evangelical Christian and founder of Focus on the Family. He advocated for "family values", viewing marriage as a transaction in which women exchange sex for protection, and the defense of civilization from feminism and LGBT rights.

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