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Thank you so much!

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Let me begin with a Good Article. The Simpsons Ride From the History section: Planning for The Simpsons Ride started two years prior to its opening. Simpsons creators James L. Brooks and Matt Groening, as well as executive producer and current showrunner Al Jean, collaborated with the Universal Stud...

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Did you know that I hold the record for the longest editing streak on Wikipedia ? Annie Rauwerda of Depths of Wikipedia even interviewed me. Depths of Wikipedia Depths of Wikipedia is not only an Instagram account by Annie Rauwerda, which features unusual Wikipedia articles, but she also hosts a com...

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Richmond Night Market The lede has very much the same content as the history section. From the History section: At its peak, the Richmond Night Market had over 400 booths selling mostly Asian cuisine, merchandise, and entertainment. Entrance to the market was free, though parking on site near the e...

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Larry Sanger and Tucker Carlson talking for nearly an hour? Couldn't I just stab myself in the ears with a rusty screwdriver? Seems significantly less painful. Not that he didn't already leave that path, but you can't pretend to be an honest intellectual interested in truth if you do a long-form in...

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Menehune Fishpond the last "i" of Hawai`i [sic] links to the article on Lihue, Hawaii . However, the rest of the name is unlinked. Mistake by a Visual Editor user in this edit . The link was correct before then. Thanks. However, the Menehune Fishpond article still uses the incorrect symbol ` instea...

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Menehune Fishpond (T-H-L)

the last "i" of Hawai`i [sic] links to the article on Lihue, Hawaii (T-H-L). However, the rest of the name is unlinked.

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List of companies that applied sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War and Corporate responses to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine are duplicates of each other. In fact, the latter is a copy-and-paste move from the former. Both are meant to be merged with 2022 boycott of Russia and Belarus .

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List of companies that applied sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War is a horribly written and horribly inconsistent table that is essentially a summary of 2022 boycott of Russia and Belarus that don't even link to each other. Update: The former article now links to the latter, but not vice vers...

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List of companies that applied sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War is a horribly written and horribly inconsistent table that is essentially a summary of 2022 boycott of Russia and Belarus that don't even link to each other. Update: The former article now links to the latter, but not vice vers...

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My hometown is Toronto.

The city of rapid copy-paste condo construction.

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The relative time issue for Piñata wasn't resolved yet. There's another one for Tomb of Genghis Khan Only within the last 20 years has the area been open to Western archaeologists, though in 1920, the French diplomat Saint John Perse led an unrelated expedition through Mongolia with Chinese Post gen...

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Piñata In the penal facility of Huajuapan de León, prisoners make piñatas to sell. This began when several prisoners brought the craft with them when they were incarcerated about twenty years ago . These piñatas have become traditional for the population of the city for Christmas. About twenty year...

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List of COVID-19 deaths in South Africa (T-H-L)

I never understood why this article had to exist despite List of COVID-19 deaths (T-H-L) already containing everything that article has and more.

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Zuckerberg naming his company Meta gets a very cold reception from Kirby fans:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kirby/comments ... real_meta/

The Kirby video game series has a character named Meta Knight (T-H-L) by the way.

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Here are three very closely related articles Homelessness and mental health It even has a Conclusion section, which is very poorly written! Alcohol education It has very poor formatting and only has American and Australian examples, as well as a photo of a baby drinking beer in Czechia. Town drunk T...

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Toronto Street News Toronto Street News is a conspiracy exposing type tabloid newspaper based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is distributed on the streets of Toronto by the homeless, handicapped and underemployed in exchange for a donation. It is now in its 12th year and has surpassed two million ...

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List of slums The article is indeed like a slum itself. The list is very much indiscriminate. There's even badly formatted entries! Examples include the following: Mohammadpur (Slum)|Mohammadpur Poor formatting кв. Факултета/kv. Fakulteta, Sofia, Bulgaria. кв. Столипиново, Шекер махала, Аджисан мах...

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Slum The first paragraph in the lead: A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality. The infrastructure in slums is often deteriorated or incomplete, and they are primarily inhabited by impoverished people.[1] Although slums are...

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Six degrees of separation (T-H-L)

From the See also section:

The Tipping Point – 2000 book by Malcolm Gladwell by Malcolm Gladwell

By Malcolm Gladwell

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Bilingual pun Some of the examples have no refs and the language pairs are not alphabetized. Not just that, but here: English/German "What did the computer order from the vending machine?" "Saftware." Saft is the German word for juice. By replacing the O in "software" to an A, it becomes "Saftware"...

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This is a thread to discuss Wikipedia articles containing improperly-sorted lists.

Let me begin with Sugary drink tax (T-H-L)

The list of countries has Canada come after Chile and Colombia.

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List of protest clubs (T-H-L)

The article is very poorly formatted, complete with using external links instead of proper refs.

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There's NIWA (Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance), which is a group of Nintendo wikis opposed to Fandom. Examples of wikis within NIWA include https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/, Bulbapedia (Pokémon), https://mariowiki.com, Super Mario Wiki (Mario, Donkey Kong, Yoshi, and Wario), and https://wikirb...

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There's DuckDuckGo and Brave (yes, Brave now has a search engine).

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Here's one for a professional athlete:

Kirby Snead (T-H-L)

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Fate: The Cursed King From the lead: Fate: The Cursed King is a computer game that was developed and published by WildTangent.[1] The game was available to play on WildTangent on March 30, 2011 and available for purchase on Steam on November 19, 2014.[2] Fate: the Cursed King is the fourth and fina...

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Editing one's own user page (and waiting a few days) is a common way to gain the ability to edit semi-protected articles.

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Wikipedia and TV Tropes serve different purposes despite me enjoying both.

Wikipedia should not strive to compete with TV Tropes on the pop culture reference front.

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Google and Microsoft should pay the WMF who would then pay the contributors.

After all, Google and Microsoft (through Bing) profit from the unpaid contributions of Wikipedians.

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Thanks for taking another look. It's very likely a genuine mistake (given that the article is sem-protected), though it did look like vandalism if there's no context.

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Genocide From the Etymology section: Lemkin defined genocide as follows: New conceptions require new terms. By ‘‘genocide” we mean the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group. This new word, coined by the author to denote an old practice in its modern development, is made from the ancient Gre...

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Children's use of information Not only does it read like an essay, but it also contains grammatical errors. For example, it mentions 4 year-olds. It can easily be read as there being four children who are each a year old, though the Wikipedian who wrote it intended it to mean children who are four ...

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Inco Superstack (T-H-L)

From the third paragraph in the lead:

In addition to further reducing sulfur dioxide emissions by 85 per cent, the decommissioning of the stack is expected to cut the complex's natural gas consumption in half.maxine[3]

Where did Maxine come from?

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Canada Glacier Lead: Canada Glacier is a small glacier flowing south-east into the northern side of Taylor Valley in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is in the Ross Dependency. Its melting season is in the summer. Canada's landmass and climate supports approximately 20% of the Earth's glacier ice volu...

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Alton Towers (T-H-L)

The infobox looks wonky.

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Here's another one:

Censorship in New Zealand (T-H-L)

There's a section called "Indecent Publications Act 2021" when it's actually about the Indecent Publications Act 1963.

Not just that, but apparently, some of the content had been removed.

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Floating island Natural occurrences: Sometimes referred to as tussocks, floatons, or suds, natural floating islands are composed of vegetation growing on a buoyant mat of plant roots or other organic detritus. Some cenotes in northern Mexico have natural floating islands. They typically occur when ...

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It has since been reverted.

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Alek Manoah Toronto Blue Jays section: On May 27, 2021, Manoah was selected to the 40-man roster and promoted to the major leagues for the first time, and started against the New York Yankees that day, while picking up the win in a 2–0 final.[24] Manoah recorded his first MLB strikeout in his debut...

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Political views of H. G. Wells The Class section: Social class was a theme in Wells's The Time Machine in which the Time Traveler speaks of the future world, with its two races, as having evolved from <block quote>the gradual widening of the present (19th century) merely temporary and social differ...

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Non-English versions of The Simpsons Here's the South Korea section: The show arrived to South Korea on January 9, 1995 on MBC and the second season on July 1, 1995. Homer was dubbed by Han Song-Pae. Due to disparate cultural differences, MBC pulled the show from their schedule. In 2002, EBS and To...

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Data East (T-H-L)

The Affiliated companies section looks rather haphazard.

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Bingo (American version) (T-H-L)

The business of bingo section

Caption wrote:Bingo parlors in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where the game has become quite popular in the last twenty years

Bolded for emphasis

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Popcorn maker Fifth paragraph of the History section: By 1893, Cretors had created a steam powered machine that could roast 12 pounds of peanuts and 20 pounds of coffee, pop corn, and bake chestnuts. Popcorn was becoming the next popular choice for snackfood. Cretors redesigned his automated roasti...

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Avocado Second paragraph of lead: Commercially valuable with production increasing worldwide over 2018-26 at about 10% per year,[7][8] avocados are cultivated in tropical and Mediterranean climates of many countries,[2] with Mexico as the leading producer of avocados in 2019, supplying 32% of the w...

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Vehicle registration plates of Canada (T-H-L)

For the Nunavut section:

As of 2012, vehicles owned by Members of the [[Legislative Assembly of Nunavut

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MLB The Show 20 (T-H-L)

The article begins with Ħ

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Bánh mì (T-H-L)

Infobox caption:

A bánh mì thịt nguội prepared in San Jose, Californiai

The link is correct, but the text says Californiai.

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Beef entrails Development of beef entrails in Hong Kong Beef entrails had been a popular kind of snacks in Guangdong province of China. Due to the Chinese Civil War of the mid-20th century, a wave of migrants from mainland China flooded into Hong Kong as refugees. With the influence of the migrants...

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