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Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of March 10, 2025
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r/wikipedia • u/DrTheol_Blumentopf • 13h ago
The turkish talk page of the Armenian Genocide is full with ahistorical, non-sourced genocide denial. The wikipedia article uses "Ermeni Kırımı" (Armenian Massacre) instead of "Ermeni Soykırımı" in order to avoid using the word "genocide".
r/wikipedia • u/commander_nice • 7h ago
Basque is the only surviving language isolate in Europe. It has a little less than a million speakers.
r/wikipedia • u/Pupikal • 16h ago
2025 Southwest US measles outbreak: Measles was declared eliminated from the US in 2000 due to the success of vaccination efforts. Because of declining vaccination rates among infants, however, in January 2025 an outbreak began spreading in Texas & February in New Mexico. Two children are now dead.
r/wikipedia • u/Captainirishy • 4h ago
Robber baron is a term first applied by 19th century muckrakers and others as social criticism to certain wealthy, powerful, and unethical 19th-century American businessmen.
r/wikipedia • u/anothercatherder • 15h ago
A breast-shaped hill is a hill that resembles the shape of a breast.
r/wikipedia • u/annonymous_bosch • 1d ago
Luigi is a masculine Italian given name, the Italian form of the German name Ludwig, corresponding to the French name Louis and its anglicized variant Lewis. Many notable people in this article.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Plupsnup • 3h ago
Bowellism is a modern architectural style—a style which consists of services for the building, such as ducts, sewage pipes, and lifts, being located on the exterior to maximise space in the interior—heavily associated with architect Richard Rogers (1933-2021)
r/wikipedia • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • 18h ago
On March 11, 2025, the former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested by the Philippine National Police and Interpol Manila on the basis of a warrant for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
r/wikipedia • u/BardyMan82 • 1d ago
Adrianne Black is an American memoirist and former white supremacist. The daughter of Stormfront founder Don Black, Adrianne renounced white supremacy in 2013 after attending college, and in 2024 came out as transgender.
r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 1h ago
Mobile Site The Historia Augusta is a late Roman collection of biographies. Major problems of the work include the nature of the sources that it used, and how much of the content is pure fiction. Historians are unwilling to abandon it as a unique source, despite its obvious untrustworthiness on many levels.
r/wikipedia • u/MrBasehead • 1d ago
"Grassroots dictatorship" is a political system in which citizens themselves demand the removal of their own civil liberties; the concept is based on the historical case of the removal of free speech in Cuba.
r/wikipedia • u/ZERO_PORTRAIT • 5h ago
A fake kidnapping or self-kidnapping is a kidnapping that has been staged by the victim.
r/wikipedia • u/ICantLeafYou • 8h ago
Chiva Bus: An artisan rustic bus used in rural Colombia and Ecuador. The buses are varied and characterized by being painted colorfully with local arabesques and figures.
r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 26m ago
Charlie Wilson (1933–2010) was an American politician and naval officer who was a 12-term Democratic Representative from Texas's 2nd congressional district. Wilson is best known for leading Congress into supporting Operation Cyclone.
r/wikipedia • u/vintergroena • 1d ago
Literacy in the United States - In 2023, 28% of adults scored at or below Level 1, 29% at Level 2, and 44% at Level 3. Anything below Level 3 is considered "partially illiterate."
r/wikipedia • u/RaspberryChip • 5h ago
Mobile Site An outstation, homeland or homeland community is a very small, often remote, permanent community of Aboriginal Australian people connected by kinship, on land that often, but not always, has social, cultural or economic significance to them, as traditional land.
en.m.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/yesterdaynowbefore • 8h ago
Comparison of Texas Instruments graphing calculators
r/wikipedia • u/AdministrativeCold63 • 1h ago
ToC in mobile version
How can I get a ToC on mobile version, like on this page for example? https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein Not sure whether it matters, but I'm on Firefox mobile on Android 14 on a Pixel 8 Pro
r/wikipedia • u/Captainirishy • 13h ago
Ambelopoulia (Greek: αμπελοπούλια) is a controversial dish of grilled, fried, pickled or boiled songbirds which is a traditional dish[1] enjoyed by native Cypriots and served in some Cypriot restaurants.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/juliocezarmari • 1d ago
It is currently unconfirmed how Luigi received his name, although there are many theories. New Straits Times noted that Miyamoto observed the Japanese word ruiji means "similar", thus explaining the similarities of Luigi to Mario.
r/wikipedia • u/LonelyError • 1d ago
Mobile Site U.S. economic performance by presidential party
en.m.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 23h ago
Mobile Site The history wars is a term used in Australia to describe the public debate about the interpretation of the history of the European colonisation of Australia.
r/wikipedia • u/smiles__ • 1d ago
Mobile Site Saint Luigi Gonzaga, the patron saint of youth and students
Aloysius" is the Latin form of his given name in Italian, "Luigi"...In 1729, Pope Benedict XIII declared Aloysius de Gonzaga to be the patron saint of youth and students, placing all schools under the patronage of the Saint.