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enwikibadscience wrote:

TungstenCarbide wrote:Category:Star_Wars_license_plates

Someone kill me.

The Joy wrote:

enwikibadscience wrote:

TungstenCarbide wrote:Category:Star_Wars_license_plates

Someone kill me.

Shall we die-in tonight?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Die-ins

Hex wrote:TIME OUT.

People's boring self-photos are not what I started this thread for, much less using them as an excuse to get jabs in at their subject.

Hex wrote:TIME OUT.

People's boring self-photos are not what I started this thread for, much less using them as an excuse to get jabs in at their subject.

Tippi Hadron wrote:

Hex wrote:TIME OUT.

People's boring self-photos are not what I started this thread for, much less using them as an excuse to get jabs in at their subject.

Well boo hoo. You really are something of a saint, in light of how Mattie No Mates jerked you around when he tried to have your WP profile pic deleted in a fit of vindictiveness.

But I'll play along, given that you're generally a cool customer. So, for the moment, let's not focus on our boy Matt's obvious conflict of interest regarding his many London Underground edits and his puerile sense of humour when describing his job on twitter but enjoy a lovely and educational picture from a WP article he has an interest in instead:



And another one:


There. That better?

Hex wrote:TIME OUT.

People's boring self-photos are not what I started this thread for, much less using them as an excuse to get jabs in at their subject.

Tippi Hadron wrote:So, for the moment, let's not focus on our boy Matt's obvious conflict of interest regarding his many London Underground edits and his puerile sense of humour when describing his job on twitter

tarantino wrote:Yali woman breastfeeding her pig.

EricBarbour wrote:

Tippi Hadron wrote:So, for the moment, let's not focus on our boy Matt's obvious conflict of interest regarding his many London Underground edits and his puerile sense of humour when describing his job on twitter

Hmm, good point.

Because nobody mentioned furries yet......

Plenty more in Category:Fursuits. Have a sweet day.

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mac wrote:

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The user inserted this image into the article on paraphilic infantilism (T-H-L) (link), where it remains today. Always improving!

piku wrote:Odd massive uploaders
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spec ... s/Russavia
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spec ... es/Fastily

mac wrote:
To be fair, it is from 1995:

I took this Picture of Paul & Linda McCartney at the 1973 Academy Awards (which were presented April 2, 1974 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles) when Paul was nominated for "Live & Let Die." Paul & Linda walked up to the podium and Army Archerd started asking him questions on live TV. Paul then turned his head and stared directly at me, totally ignoring the interviewer, and giving me an eerie feeling - was he actually looking at me? I pulled the viewfinder of the camera away from my eye, I had no more film, having just taken this last frame of Paul & Linda, but he continued his penetrating stare. I was getting nervous, here was my idol, staring at me! Army valiantly kept asking questions of Paul, who continued his unblinking stare, keeping perfectly silent. Finally Linda would answer the question. This went on for five or six questions. Finally, Army dejectedly said "Well, thanks Paul" to which Paul suddenly turned to Army shaking his hand saying "Thank You, Army, great questions, you're the best, always love talking to you." Then he and Linda walked over near me and deliberatly turned their backs to me just as they got close, sidestepping in front of me. I guess Paul was feeling playful and decided to give a young man a thrill, it worked!

Houses which look haunted but aren't actually reported as such.

Duke Olav III wrote:Category:Sinister houses (T-H-L)

Houses which look haunted but aren't actually reported as such.

Duke Olav III wrote:Category:Sinister houses: link

Houses which look haunted but aren't actually reported as such.

Edit: Fumbling around with links

Hex wrote:Hah, that was uploaded by the same person (Corwin(T-C-F-L)) who took Commons File:Paul and Linda McCartney.jpg:

Hex wrote:Is this the kind of thing that I have to look forward to seeing at Wikimania?

mac wrote:I found it amusing that the man reading the spoken word version of soggy biscuit (T-H-L) can't keep from laughing (twice) while reading it: Commons File:Soggy Biscuit.ogg

mac wrote:I found it amusing that the man reading the spoken word version of soggy biscuit (T-H-L) can't keep from laughing (twice) while reading it: Commons File:Soggy Biscuit.ogg

Accent: Sexy British

Hex wrote:Hah, that was uploaded by the same person (Corwin(T-C-F-L)) who took Commons File:Paul and Linda McCartney.jpg:

In 2001, specially commissioned scans of the bridge confirmed the existence within the fabric of the large central pier of a horse and cart, which had fallen into the cavity of the pier during construction. Until this time, it had not been certain at which bridge this accident had occurred.

EricBarbour wrote:Look at this.

In 2001, specially commissioned scans of the bridge confirmed the existence within the fabric of the large central pier of a horse and cart, which had fallen into the cavity of the pier during construction. Until this time, it had not been certain at which bridge this accident had occurred.

There is no article on Wikipedia about this viaduct. The incident is mentioned in Glenfinnan Viaduct (T-H-L), where it didn't actually happen.

Someone care to figure out why? I give up.

In 2000, Professor Paxton and Radar World, commissioned by Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd, developed an innovative radar imaging technique which penetrated the 9 ft thick walls of this pier into its infilled cavity and identified the vertically positioned remains of a McAlpine horse and cart (behind the white spot in the view) which had accidentally fallen into the cavity a century earlier.
R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.

neved wrote:about to become a featured picture

Poetlister wrote:What nobody queried in the deletion discussion, actually, is whether the photographer transferred the copyright to Greg.

thekohser wrote:

Poetlister wrote:What nobody queried in the deletion discussion, actually, is whether the photographer transferred the copyright to Greg.

Who do you imagine was the photographer?

mac wrote:There's a lot of weird stuff in Category:Wikipedia files of no use beyond Wikipedia (T-H-L).

Peryglus wrote:

mac wrote:There's a lot of weird stuff in Category:Wikipedia files of no use beyond Wikipedia (T-H-L).

Is there a Commons equivalent of this category?

EricBarbour wrote:

Peryglus wrote:

mac wrote:There's a lot of weird stuff in Category:Wikipedia files of no use beyond Wikipedia (T-H-L).

Is there a Commons equivalent of this category?

There are too many possibilities to list here.

Thanks for pointing that category out as it's a perfect example of people using Wikipedia as a personal Flickr. Many of the photos are of very minor WP editors, who (sometimes) use the pics on their userpages. Resource mismanagement at its purest!