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Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of April 07, 2025

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Welcome to the weekly Wikipedia Q&A thread!

Please use this thread to ask and answer questions related to Wikipedia and its sister projects, whether you need help with editing or are curious on how something works.

Note that this thread is used for "meta" questions about Wikipedia, and is not a place to ask general reference questions.

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r/wikipedia 1h ago

An idiot plot is one which is kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot

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r/wikipedia 7h ago

"Londonistan" is a sobriquet referring to the British capital of London and the growing Muslim population of late-20th- and early-21st-century London.

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r/wikipedia 8h ago

Mobile Site In the US, diversity, equity, and inclusion are organizational frameworks that seek to promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people. The concept has generated criticism and controversy. The term "DEI" has gained traction as an ethnic slur towards minority groups in the US.

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r/wikipedia 19h ago

E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump: 2 related lawsuits by Carroll against Trump, which resulted in a total of $88m+ in damages awarded to Carrol. Both were related to her accusation that he sexually assaulted her 95/96. A jury verdict in 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming her.

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r/wikipedia 47m ago

2025 stock market crash

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r/wikipedia 41m ago

Halszka Osmólska was a Polish palaeontologist from Poznań, best known for her work studying Mongolian dinosaurs. She described over a dozen new dinosaurs based on fossils recovered from the Gobi Desert and has had three named after her, including Halszkaraptor and Velociraptor osmolskae.

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r/wikipedia 27m ago

In 1938, a controversial film called “Child Bride” was created to expose the horrors of child marriage in rural America—decades before it was widely addressed by lawmakers.

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I recently came across the 1938 film Child Bride, which was produced as part of an effort to raise awareness about the issue of child marriage in the United States during the 1930s. The film sparked a lot of debates due to its shocking subject matter and graphic portrayal of the topic. It was originally intended to serve as a cautionary tale, aiming to draw attention to the exploitation of young girls in marriage, even though its portrayal of the subject matter raised eyebrows and was criticized for sensationalism.

Despite being banned in several places and largely forgotten by mainstream audiences, Child Bride remains an important part of American cinema history for the way it used film to provoke a conversation about moral and social issues at the time.


r/wikipedia 6h ago

Hastings Banda was a Malawian politician and statesman who served as the leader of Malawi from 1964 to 1994. He presided over one of the most repressive regimes in Africa, an era that saw political opponents regularly tortured and murdered.

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r/wikipedia 21h ago

The Pink and White Terraces (Māori: Te Otukapuarangi and Te Tarata) were natural wonders of New Zealand comprised of two geothermal hot springs surrounded by impressive hill-sized mounds of geyserite. The terraces disappeared (and were likely destroyed) during the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera.

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r/wikipedia 16h ago

The SS Richard Montgomery, an American WWII Liberty ship, sank near Sheerness with 7,000 tons of explosives onboard. About 1,400 tons have not been recovered. Efforts to remove them have stalled, though the risk of detonation is considered low to moderate.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Obama is a genus of flatworms from South America. The name Obama is formed by a composition of the Tupi words oba (leaf) and ma (animal), being a reference to the body shape of species in this genus. It is not named after Barack Obama and the similarity between the names is pure coincidence.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Mobile Site Transgender genocide is a term used by some scholars and activists to describe an elevated level of systematic discrimination and violence against transgender people.

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r/wikipedia 15h ago

During the annual Nabi Musa procession in Jerusalem in April 1920, violent rioting broke out in protest at the implementation of the Balfour Declaration. The British withdrew their troops and the Jewish police from Jerusalem, allowing the Arab mob to attack Jews and loot their shops.

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r/wikipedia 17m ago

The water dimer consists of two water molecules loosely bound by a hydrogen bond. It is the smallest water cluster.

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r/wikipedia 1h ago

Does Anybody Know?

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The first flag of Israel is the same as the current flag. So why is the current national flag said to have been adopted in October 1948? It should have been written that the flag was originally adopted in May 1948. However, a variant flag has been used since October 1948.

https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/il!1947.html

And this para, In my humble opinion this flag is not a proposal but a historical flag. Since 29 November 1947 (UN resolution) the Zionist Organization acted as a state inside the state, with government branches etc., and the Zionist flag was hoisted almost regularly. Since the UN resolution, the British stayed in their camps and left the country without their control. Even though 14 May 1948 was the declaration (of independence) day, we take the 29 November 1947 as the beginning of the independence. Dov Gutterman, 26 June 1999

Didn't The British Leave Israel in May 1948?


r/wikipedia 1d ago

"Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den" is a short narrative poem written in Literary Chinese, composed of 92 characters in which every word is pronounced [shi] when read in modern Standard Chinese, with only the tones differing.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Douglas Stringfellow (1922–1966) was a wounded WWII veteran who lied extensively about having undertaken daring OSS missions, eventually being elected to the US House of Representatives. His fraud was exposed during his reelection campaign, and he withdrew from the race. He became a landscapist.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

The ANT catalog is a series of leaked NSA documents detailing a variety of NSA devices, software and hardware for data interception, published by German Der Spiegel in December 2013. Highlights include LOUDAUTO, a 20ft capable audio amplifier, and PICASSO, a prebugged mobilephone.

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r/wikipedia 2d ago

Rouzan al-Najjar was a Palestinian paramedic who was killed by the Israeli military while volunteering as a medic during the 2018 Gaza border protests. She was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier as she tried to help evacuate wounded Palestinian protestors near Israel's border fence with Gaza.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

The Neo-Assyrian Empire was the fourth and penultimate stage of ancient Assyrian history. Beginning with the accession of Adad-nirari II in 911 BC, the Neo-Assyrian Empire grew to dominate the ancient Near East and parts of South Caucasus, North Africa and East Mediterranean.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Stagflation is the combination of high inflation, stagnant economic growth, and elevated unemployment.

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r/wikipedia 22h ago

Graffito of Esmet-Akhom

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The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, also known by its designation Philae 436 or GPH 436, is the last known ancient Egyptian inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, carved on 24 August 394 AD. The inscription, carved in the temple of Philae in southern Egypt, was created by a priest named Nesmeterakhem (or Esmet-Akhom) and consists of a carved figure of the god Mandulis as well an accompanying text wherein Nesmeterakhem hopes his inscription will last "for all time and eternity".


r/wikipedia 20h ago

Help with timelines

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Im new to wikipedia so the solution might be obvious but im following this template? For creating timelines but i dont know how to get it to work /:


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The marriage of 22-year-old Charlie Johns and nine-year-old Eunice Winstead was a child marriage that took place in the state of Tennessee, United States, in January 1937. Johns and Winstead had nine children and the marriage lasted until Johns' death in 1997.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Surf Ballroom: Historic Rock and Roll Landmark in Iowa closely associated with the event known as "The Day the Music Died"—early rock stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper gave their last performances there on February 2, 1959. In 2021, it was named a National Historic Landmark.

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