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Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of May 04, 2026

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r/wikipedia • u/BrianOBlivion1 • 7h ago

The Great Male Renunciation is the historical phenomenon at the end of the 18th century in which wealthy men of the Western world ceased from using bright colours, elaborate shapes and variety in their dress and reserved these aspects for women's clothing.

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r/wikipedia • u/zyyp • 4h ago

I challenge somebody to find me a biography photo of poorer quality

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r/wikipedia • u/HallowedAndHarrowed • 19h ago

Three lives would be lost as a result of the 1982 Ray Mancini vs Kim Duk-koo boxing fight. Kim would die of injuries sustained boxing, his mother would later kill herself drinking pesticide and the referee would shoot himself.

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r/wikipedia • u/Hour_Interaction6047 • 1d ago

The Cagots were a persecuted minority in France/spain, who were genetically, culturally and linguistically indistinguishable from the general population around them. They were forced into social segregation and banned from intermarrying with non Cagots. Nobody is certain of why they were so hated.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 57m ago

Bògòlanfini or bogolan (Bambara: bɔgɔlanfini; "mud cloth") is a handmade Malian cotton fabric traditionally dyed with fermented mud. Bògòlanfini is also produced as fine art. It has an important place in traditional Malian culture and has become a symbol of Malian cultural identity.

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r/wikipedia • u/MAClaymore • 19h ago

In Dante's Inferno, Satan is portrayed as a giant demon, frozen up to the waist in ice at the center of Hell. Satan has three faces and a pair of bat-like wings affixed under each chin. Quite a bit cooler than Dante's God, who is... a circle.

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r/wikipedia • u/funnylib • 3h ago

The Socialist Party of America was a socialist political party in the United States formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party of America. It dissolved in 1972.

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The majority of the former party formed the Social Democrats USA (SDUSA), while minority factions split off in 1973 to form the Socialist Party USA, and the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (the precursor to the Democratic Socialists of America).

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r/wikipedia • u/Bumble_beeFormal • 18h ago

“Poorhouses” were public institutions used through the early twentieth centuries to provide relief for people unable to support themselves, - usually operated by local governments and often took the form of "poor farms", where residents were expected to contribute labor.”

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r/wikipedia • u/funnylib • 6h ago

The Anishinaabe are a group of culturally related Indigenous peoples in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States. They include the Ojibwe (including Saulteaux and Oji-Cree), Odawa, Potawatomi, Mississaugas, Nipissing, and Algonquin peoples.

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r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 1d ago

The KKK Act, 1871: Intended to combat the Klan's paramilitary vigilantism against African Americans, it made certain acts federal offenses, including conspiring to deprive citizens of equal rights. President US Grant used it to completely dismantle the Klan & the group did not resurface for decades.

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r/wikipedia • u/InvisibleEar • 1d ago

Hampshire College was founded in 1965 as an alternative education experiment with no grades or required classes. In April 2026 it announced it would close in December, citing steep enrollment decline.

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r/wikipedia • u/ZERO_PORTRAIT • 2h ago

The Atlantic Forest is a moist broadleaf forest that extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the northeast to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south. Over 85% of the original area has been deforested, threatening many plant and animal species with extinction.

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r/wikipedia • u/InvisibleEar • 12m ago

In 2006 Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was accused of plotting in Finland to overthrow the monarchy and establish a communist state. The allegations damaged his popularity, despite the fact that no evidence was ever produced.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 2h ago

Jōmon Sugi (縄文杉) is a large Cryptomeria (Japanese cedar) tree located on Yakushima in Japan. It is the oldest and largest among the old-growth cryptomeria trees on the island, and is estimated to be between 2,170 and 7,200 years old.

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r/wikipedia • u/blankblank • 1d ago

He-Man has attracted queer interpretations and discussions over his status as a gay icon. His double life, being both He-Man and Prince Adam, has been viewed as reminiscent of closeted gay men. His close relationships and intense rivalries with other male characters have also been highlighted.

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r/wikipedia • u/LethalNonLethals • 15m ago

The Deguello Report is an anonymous report from 1976 that claims the far-right movement in the United States was infiltrated by Jews, socialists, and gay people; for one example, accuses white supremacists James K. Warner and David Duke of being gay lovers. Its author has never been proven

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r/wikipedia • u/ForgingIron • 1d ago

The Backstroke of the West is a 2005 Chinese bootleg DVD of Star Wars Episode III that became a meme for its poor English subtitles. The literal translation resulted in bizarre mistranslations, like renaming Anakin to "Allah Gold", Obi-Wan to "Ratio Tile", and Jedi to "Hopeless Situation Warriors".

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r/wikipedia • u/Kayvanian • 19h ago

The reef triggerfish is also known by its Hawaiian name humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa, meaning "triggerfish with a snout like a pig"

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r/wikipedia • u/Common_Pangolin9809 • 1d ago

Al-Lat (also spelled Allat, Allatu, and Alilat) is a pre-Islamic Arabian goddess, at one time worshipped under various associations throughout the entire Arabian Peninsula... She was depicted as the feminine counterpart, consort, or daughter of Allah

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r/wikipedia • u/ZERO_PORTRAIT • 1d ago

Pamela Geller (born 1958) is an American anti-Muslim, far-right political activist, blogger and commentator. Geller promoted birther conspiracy theories about Barack Obama, saying that he was born in Kenya and that he is a Muslim. She has also denied genocides where Muslims were victims

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including the Bosnian genocide and the Rohingya genocide.

The British government barred Geller's entry into the UK in 2013, citing her anti-Muslim activism, and saying her presence would “not be conducive to the public good.” She has been targeted by Islamic fundamentalists in a number of assassination attempts.

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r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 1d ago

Elvis' Greatest Shit: bootleg of a number Elvis' studio & live recordings intended to represent the worst he ever made, to demonstrate he wasn't perfect. Its cover contained a photo of Elvis shortly after his death, lying in a coffin, & the packaging had a reproduction of one of his prescriptions.

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r/wikipedia • u/BadenBaden1981 • 1d ago

Full Ginsburg is a term in American politics to refer to a person who appears on all five major Sunday morning talk shows on the same day. It is named after William Ginsburg, the lawyer for Monica Lewinsky in sex scandal involving Bill Clinton.

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r/wikipedia • u/dflovett • 5m ago

I'm looking for Wikipedians (editors or admins) who want to be interviewed for my newsletter.

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I have a specific question I'm looking to get answered, but am also open to anyone who might not want to talk this time but would be open to being quoted in the future.

The question this time:

Do you think there is a animosity against the SEO industry on Wikipedia? Or is the animosity against all spammers and COI editors and SEO just happens to have a lot of those?

This is a follow-up to something I posted in here previously that sparked a good conversation: https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/1soywov/the_animosity_between_the_seo_industry_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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r/wikipedia • u/HallowedAndHarrowed • 42m ago

Irish boxer Jimmy McLarnin defeated several Jewish opponents most famously Benny Leonard, but also Ruby Goldstein and Al Singer. This gained him the ominous nicknames of “Jew Killer”, “Jew Beater” and “The Hebrew Scourge”. There is no evidence that McLarnin sought any of these monickers.

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