User:Slakr/Only on Wikipedia

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with lots of articles that you won't find in other encyclopedias. I wanted to make my own list of gems that I came across while doing my various admin-y things. Keep in mind, these articles meet our notability guidelines for inclusion, so it's not just a bunch of things that some dude made one day, but things where significant secondary sources have documented the importance of the subject.

Otherwise-censored
"Fine, upstanding encyclopedias" like Britannica tend to omit these, and in doing so, they actually do a great disservice to their readers, because there's historic and encyclopedic content surrounding them. This is the exact reason why Wikipedia does not censor things "for the children"&mdash;especially when it means that adults lose out.


 * Bullshit &mdash; includes etymology of the word, its relationship to broadcast law (including how the FCC officially allowed it to be used in a commercial in the 80s), and, believe it or not, a poem by T. S. Eliot&mdash;all sourced. The article doesn't exist on Britannica.

Uncategorized

 * Toilet paper orientation
 * Cow blowing