Talk:23 enigma

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~p156 has a page on the enigma of the number 23, should this be mentioned in trivia? Legalways (talk) 02:53, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Is not here a place where to share knowledge?
I tried to edit the Cultural references bringhing the Europen experience of "free party movement" that is something that in last 20 years across Europe spread Tekno and Freedom culture. Something more than just a music style or a couple of artists. It's a movement that born in england in early 90's just to spread all around the Europe so much that if u now go in any big city of the continent u can see how youth generations follow this scene with same importance of rap or punk or yppies or any other underground movement that influenced our society. Is not at all a matter of few people but it just turned in a way of life. This movement take number 23 as symbol of the movement since the begining. The number 23 is something that influenced song, artist, group's names and also have a big presence in the graffiti, tatto and any other kind of graphic art form used by this movement. A so small and unimportant movement that many states all around the europe created special laws to try to control it (see france or england for example). I'm not a registered user and i really like my anonym state... but the way oi think Wikipedia is born to collect the knowledge of people and not to allow to a small group of people to decide what others have to know. If i'm right i really please some officer to take an eye on "theRingess" becouse he's just deleting all my add saying is trivial... but i don't think that Europe artistic and political movement are so trivial and unimportant for the rest of the world even if you live in other continent. I not tried in any case to make disclamer for any grops but just citate some names as examples. And even when i gived to "theRingess" all reference to chek the truth of my add he just ignored me following deleting, not happy as i said i would have considered trivial the german group that was citated he just cancelled also that and this wasn't absolutely my intention. So please if there is something like an encyclopedical eitic please stop him from deleting informations. Sry for bad english, best regards to everybody. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.51.170.206 (talk) 23:01, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

Notability
I am wondering about the general notability of this subject. The topic seems to have been invented by Robert Anton Wilson and most of the references are to his work. The Guardian article only makes a passing mention of the number 23 and does not really discuss a "23 enigma". I have doubts about whether this is a real subject, as only RAW seems to have discussed it in any depth. Could it not be merged into Robert Anton Wilson?--Smcg8374 (talk) 10:23, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * The Guardian article states the following: "The Mirror also became the first paper to link Beckham with the wife-killing, heroin-using writer William Burroughs, in a piece explaining the significance of Beckham wearing the No 23 shirt for Real. Of the 23 facts the paper highlighted, three involved Burroughs, who kept a scrapbook about the number and its role in history."
 * - That seems to independently connect Burroughs to this fringey belief. Simonm223 (talk) 14:14, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

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Glasgow shop, 23 Enigma
There is a shop in Glasgow, Scotland, selling Occult books and paraphernalia, called 23 Enigma. Its street number is 258, which has obscure arithmetical links to the Law of Fives, and which is divisible 11 times by 23. Does this merit a mention in the In popular culture section? Nuttyskin (talk) 05:40, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

The 23 enigma is regarded as a corollary of the Law of Fives because 2 + 3 = 5.
Arrant nonsense. You're adding numbers to get the number you 1st thought of. A corollary is a theorem of less importance which can be readily deduced from a previous, more notable statement. This is not a corollary. Other places you get to multiply to get more numbers (surprise, surprise). Mmmarkkk (talk) 13:50, 30 April 2021 (UTC)