Wikipedia's worst sentences

[thekohser]

We had some fun coming up with Wikipedia's worst article titles. How about a round of finding Wikipedia's worst sentences?

I'd like to kick things off with this bit of incoherent and false nonsense that sounds true:

Because players must change leagues, generally minor leaguers are chosen, and thus very few PTBNLs are of known star quality at the time of trade.

[Sweet Revenge]

First click on random article:

They had two daughters, following the rules of morgantic marriages they do not inherit the title of their father, in this case Archduchess; Otto von Habsburg gave permission to entitle them as Countess von Habsburg (Gräfin von Habsburg).

From here: Archduke Albrecht Franz, Duke of Teschen (T-H-L)

[Kelly Martin]

It took about six random pages to find this:

The film shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where Fox many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century.

[Sweet Revenge]

It took about six random pages to find this:

The film shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where Fox many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century.

She takes an early lead!

[Kelly Martin]

The sad thing is that there are other articles that have that sentence, or one very much like it, in them. There's another article that has exactly that same sentence as the abortion I quoted before. (That is, it occurs at least twice within Wikipedia, as sad as that is to believe.) I found this variant in another article:

The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where Fox Studios and many early film studios were based there at the beginning of the 20th century.

Not quite as incoherent, but still quite agrammatical.

Here's another variant:

The film wasshot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where Fox many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were at the beginning of the 20th century.

And another:

Much of the film was shot in Heights, nearby Fort Lee, New Jersey, where many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century.

There is a fifth variant that is not agrammatical, although it does not read well. All of these were due to the same editor and all of the edits were made over a two-day period.

[EricBarbour]

Poitevin-Saintongeais is still an amazing pile of incoherent crap.....

What do you think of Gangadhar Pradhan? How about Fire Study?

[Kelly Martin]

Poitevin-Saintongeais is still an amazing pile of incoherent crap.....

That looks like someone just stuffed machine-translated content in with little or no editing.

[Peter Damian]

The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where Fox many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century.

That's an interesting one, and it got me thinking about whether Wikipedia is a software project or not. The group of people who started Wikipedia were mostly software engineers who were impressed by the success of the Linux kernel. If open source methods can result in the successful elimination of bugs, why not apply the same principle? Think of the encyclopedia as a bunch of code to be produced, and think of mistakes or flaws as being 'bugs'.

The error in the sentence almost at the level which could be addressed by AI techniques. An well-designed parser could take that string of words, detect that there is a flaw in syntax, and give possible variant readings.

However, there are different levels of incoherence. To be sure, some are syntactical. But it is possible to put together a perfectly grammatical sentence that is completely incoherent. Also possible to string together a bunch of sentences which are individually coherent, but which make no sense as a whole. How would a purely mechanical approach detect these 'bugs'?


E.g. this is a stinky old sentence.

Cultural history records and interprets past events involving human beings through the social, cultural, and political milieu of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_history

But there's nothing grammatically wrong with it.

And I love this one.

Romania's history has been full of rebounds: the culturally productive epochs were those of stability, when the people proved quite an impressive resourcefulness in making up for less propitious periods and were able to rejoin the mainstream of European culture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Romania

[lilburne]

The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where Fox many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century.

That's an interesting one, and it got me thinking about whether Wikipedia is a software project or not. The group of people who started Wikipedia were mostly software engineers who were impressed by the success of the Linux kernel. If open source methods can result in the successful elimination of bugs, why not apply the same principle? Think of the encyclopedia as a bunch of code to be produced, and think of mistakes or flaws as being 'bugs'.

[/quote]

Err the Linux Kernel might be open source, and bug discovery may be crowd sourced, but not everyone can edit it. If anyone could there would never have been a stable version.

[tarantino]

Here's a poorly constructed and puncuated sentence from the Teaching stuff section of the Belarusian State Medical University article.

888 lecturers work at the University, and more than 64% of them have scientific degrees: 3 corresponding-members of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus; 12 prize winners of the State Prizes of the USSR, BSSR and Republic of Belarus; 12 Honored Scientists of the BSSR and Republic of Belarus; 3 Honored Doctors of the BSSR and Republic of Belarus; 1 Honored Worker of Education of the Republic of Belarus and 1 Honored Worker of Health Care of the Republic of Belarus Over 350 workers of clinical chairs have the highest medical category.

[AndyTheGrump]

Teaching stuff

Well, that's what they do...

Edit: sorry, I just couldn't leave that uncorrected. A drop in the ocean, but Wikipedia is a little bit better now - or it would be if it weren't for the fact that competence in the English language seems to be an option for editors, and even as I type, more unintelligible gloop is being added, without a doubt. To make matters worse, it seems often to be the most contentious articles that attract the illiterates...

[thekohser]

How about Fire Study?

Sentences, please -- not articles. For example, from Fire Study (T-H-L):

Marrok has been mentally messed with and when Yelena tries to fix him she finds Roze in his mind who tells her that one of them is a spy and now she knows where Yelena is and she will not be safe in Ixia.

[Hersch]

I love this one.

Romania's history has been full of rebounds: the culturally productive epochs were those of stability, when the people proved quite an impressive resourcefulness in making up for less propitious periods and were able to rejoin the mainstream of European culture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Romania

[The Adversary]

Here's a poorly constructed and puncuated sentence from the Teaching stuff section of the Belarusian State Medical University article.

888 lecturers work at the University, and more than 64% of them have scientific degrees: 3 corresponding-members of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus; 12 prize winners of the State Prizes of the USSR, BSSR and Republic of Belarus; 12 Honored Scientists of the BSSR and Republic of Belarus; 3 Honored Doctors of the BSSR and Republic of Belarus; 1 Honored Worker of Education of the Republic of Belarus and 1 Honored Worker of Health Care of the Republic of Belarus Over 350 workers of clinical chairs have the highest medical category.

...aaaaaaand....it`s a copyvio, from http://www.bsmu.by/english/index.php?op ... Itemid=214

...including the "teaching stuff"!

[HRIP7]

Here's a poorly constructed and puncuated sentence from the Teaching stuff section of the Belarusian State Medical University article.

888 lecturers work at the University, and more than 64% of them have scientific degrees: 3 corresponding-members of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Belarus; 12 prize winners of the State Prizes of the USSR, BSSR and Republic of Belarus; 12 Honored Scientists of the BSSR and Republic of Belarus; 3 Honored Doctors of the BSSR and Republic of Belarus; 1 Honored Worker of Education of the Republic of Belarus and 1 Honored Worker of Health Care of the Republic of Belarus Over 350 workers of clinical chairs have the highest medical category.

...aaaaaaand....it`s a copyvio, from http://www.bsmu.by/english/index.php?op ... Itemid=214

...including the "teaching stuff"!

[HRIP7]

From the article on The Malian Foundation (T-H-L) already mentioned elsewhere:

The Foundation was established as a result of its founder noticing that support services being exclusively geared towards commercial organisations, and that non-profits - without the financial backing and resources of the corporate world, were being left largely to their own devices.[1]

This sort of thing happens a lot in Wikipedia. It's usually the result of hurried writing (or copyediting) by people whose span of attention is not long enough to last a whole sentence. This particular sentence was added pretty much exactly like that 6 years ago.

[Peter Damian]

From the article on The Malian Foundation (T-H-L) already mentioned elsewhere:

The Foundation was established as a result of its founder noticing that support services being exclusively geared towards commercial organisations, and that non-profits - without the financial backing and resources of the corporate world, were being left largely to their own devices.[1]

This sort of thing happens a lot in Wikipedia. It's usually the result of hurried writing (or copyediting) by people whose span of attention is not long enough to last a whole sentence. This particular sentence was added pretty much exactly like that 6 years ago.

Called anacoluthon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacoluthon . It would have been amusing if the Wikipedia article about it contained an example, but sadly not.

[Peter Damian]

Amongst scholars, the 5th-century BC Greek historian Herodotus is considered to be the "father of history", and, along with his contemporary Thucydides, forms the foundations for the modern study of history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History

From the introduction to the article on history. Forgetting what the subject was, or applying a predicate that is wholly inappropriate to the subject, is very common in Wikipedia. Here, the subject of the verb ‘forms’ is Herodotus. But it is his work, but not he, that forms the foundations etc. I could find you thousands of these. I don’t know if there is a name for the error. Another 'bug' that is hard to pick up via mechanical methods.


And from the introduction to the very same article:

Their influence, along with other historical traditions in other parts of their world, have spawned many different interpretations of the nature of history which has evolved over the centuries and are continuing to change.

And this in a 'flagship' article. Or what Wikipedia calls a 'vital' article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... es/Level/2 . I have a theory that any article in Wikipedia with the word ‘history’ in it is liable to be very bad.

[lonza leggiera]

Amongst scholars, the 5th-century BC Greek historian Herodotus is considered to be the "father of history", and, along with his contemporary Thucydides, forms the foundations for the modern study of history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History

From the introduction to the article on history. Forgetting what the subject was, or applying a predicate that is wholly inappropriate to the subject, is very common in Wikipedia. Here, the subject of the verb ‘forms’ is Herodotus. But it is his work, but not he, that forms the foundations etc. I could find you thousands of these. I don’t know if there is a name for the error. ...

I think it's just another variety of anacoluthon. The example given in the Oxford Dictionary of English online is somewhat similar:

While in the garden, the door banged shut.

in that the obviously intended referent of the descriptive phrase "while in the garden" is not the one which a strict application of the rules of grammar would assign it to.

[Peter Damian]

Amongst scholars, the 5th-century BC Greek historian Herodotus is considered to be the "father of history", and, along with his contemporary Thucydides, forms the foundations for the modern study of history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History

From the introduction to the article on history. Forgetting what the subject was, or applying a predicate that is wholly inappropriate to the subject, is very common in Wikipedia. Here, the subject of the verb ‘forms’ is Herodotus. But it is his work, but not he, that forms the foundations etc. I could find you thousands of these. I don’t know if there is a name for the error. ...

I think it's just another variety of anacoluthon. The example given in the Oxford Dictionary of English online is somewhat similar:

While in the garden, the door banged shut.

in that the obviously intended referent of the descriptive phrase "while in the garden" is not the one which a strict application of the rules of grammar would assign it to.

OK how about the kind of category mistake where the verb fails to match the category of the subject or predicate? E.g.

Flush with newly discovered power, the common citizens of France – particularly in the teeming capital, Paris – felt a newly discovered desire to participate in politics and government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Women% ... Versailles

Perfectly grammatical, and not anacoluthon. The problem is that while you can have a desire, you cannot feel a desire.

Or what about this

Quiet Versailles, the seat of royal power, was a stifling environment for reformers.

Grammar fine, and no category errors. But there's something horrible there that I can't put my finger on.

This also interesting

Among their makeshift weaponry they dragged along several cannon taken from the Hôtel de Ville.

What does that mean? Presumably "Among their makeshift weaponry were several cannon taken from the Hôtel de Ville, which they were dragging along". Hmm.

Hungry, fatigued, and bedraggled from the rain, they seemed to confirm that the siege was a simple demand for food.

Category error again. A siege cannot itself be a demand.

They milled around the palace grounds with rumors abounding that the women's deputation had been duped

So of the things that were milling around, some were people, some were rumours.

The whole thing written by this person http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SteveStrummer, whose user page proclaims he is one of the much lamented 'content creators'. Interesting that he promoted that article to GA status. What does 'good article' mean?

[Kelly Martin]

What does 'good article' mean?

It means that the article's author does not have enough wikipolitical clout to have it promoted to featured article.

[HRIP7]

Called anacoluthon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacoluthon . It would have been amusing if the Wikipedia article about it contained an example, but sadly not.

Despair not. What it does have is an example of an anacoluthon that was vandalised four years ago, and is still vandalised today:

Agreements entered into when three states of facts exists – are they to be maintained regardless of changing conditions?

Actually, I don't think that would be a good example even if it were quoted correctly. It's more plausibly analysed as a pronominal apposition, as in "Your sister, didn't she use to work there?"

[thekohser]

From Iwan Iwanoff:

He became renowned for his design characteristic which is mainly working with concrete blocks as an innovative way to.

Which led me to shout, "I want off! I want off!"

[Mason]

A couple of clicks on the random button and we get The Next Passage (Alternamorphs) (T-H-L):

If the reader refuses, the others will force them to stay in a fly morph and become a nothlit and they will die but the other split is being in prehistoric time.

[thekohser]

From Total Balance, an article that Wikipedians have known to be problematic for over three and a half years!

The start is using the energy value of money as a measure of the whole economic system, and its widely distributed average effects.

Wikipedia... always improving, and quickly!

[Kelly Martin]

From Ohio Brew Week (T-H-L):

Throughout the week there are events and competitions centered around the craft beers that festival goers can participate in.

I am not touching any beer that a festival goer has "participated in".

[Vigilant]

From Ohio Brew Week (T-H-L):

Throughout the week there are events and competitions centered around the craft beers that festival goers can participate in.

I am not touching any beer that a festival goer has "participated in".

How would you even know?
Extra head on the beer?

[TungstenCarbide]

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... =511289462

The University Nanosat Program, a satellite design and fabrication competition for universities jointly administered by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and the Space Development and Test Wing, is also managed by the AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate's Spacecraft Technology division.

[Volunteer Marek]

Gerardo Machado (T-H-L)

Machado, said to the party's War leader in Las Villas province, fought on the defeated Liberal side in the 1917 "Little War of February 1917” La Chambelona (Chambelona War), with José Miguel Gómez, Alfredo Zayas and with Enrique Loynaz del Castillo.

[Volunteer Marek]

What does 'good article' mean?

It means that the article's author does not have enough wikipolitical clout to have it promoted to featured article.

or the patience/time to put up with a bunch of petty MOS bullshit.

[Vocal]

What does 'good article' mean?

It means that the article's author does not have enough wikipolitical clout to have it promoted to featured article.

or the patience/time to put up with a bunch of petty MOS bullshit.

I wrote a GA once, under a sockpuppet.

never again.

[thekohser]

Here's one, regarding the Red grouper (T-H-L):

It is found in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, the United States, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Of course, it's found in the ocean and estuaries, not particularly "in" those countries, but my point being, what prevents them from just saying: "It is found in the waters of the Caribbean Sea and nearby lagoons and marshes."

[DanMurphy]

Here's one, regarding the Red grouper (T-H-L):

It is found in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, the United States, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Of course, it's found in the ocean and estuaries, not particularly "in" those countries, but my point being, what prevents them from just saying: "It is found in the waters of the Caribbean Sea and nearby lagoons and marshes."

They could write it simply, comprehensibly AND accurately even:

"The Red Grouper's typical range is coastal areas in the western Atlantic, stretching from southern Brazil to North Carolina in the US and including the Gulf of Mexico."

There are thousands of very poor (completely unmaintained and unimproved) species stubs on Wikipedia that are the top Google hit for the animal in question. Most of them, as this one was, were "written" by a program pulling information from the IUCN. In this case, after five years, the only addition has been a paragraph plagiarized from the Smithsonian.

The "crowd" has not been moved to "improve" it. Which on balance is for the best.

[lilburne]

Most of the species pages will be stubs, and always will be stubs. The reason being that there is very little information available about the organism. For example there are over 2,000 Ichneumonidae wasps in the UK, hardly any of them can be identified without microscopic examination of the male genitalia, the life cycle and behaviour of 90% of them are unknown. There are over 2 dozen species of Ruby-tailed wasps in the UK which again cannot be identified without a microscope and again the life cycle is unknown. Move to a European or world stage and their are 10,000s of such critters. Now move to lichens and the situation is worse.

[Anroth]

For example there are over 2,000 Ichneumonidae wasps in the UK, hardly any of them can be identified without microscopic examination of the male genitalia,

My partner threatens to dissect my balls when I wear a black & yellow stripy jumper I like (she hates). It took me a long while to work out why....

[thekohser]

...hardly any of them can be identified without microscopic examination of the male genitalia...

I think I see the problem. This looks like a job for Wikimedia Commons, not Wikipedia!

[HRIP7]

...hardly any of them can be identified without microscopic examination of the male genitalia...

I think I see the problem. This looks like a job for Wikimedia Commons, not Wikipedia!

For once, it would actually make sense for them to have thousands of pictures of penises. But guess what, they don't.

[lilburne]

...hardly any of them can be identified without microscopic examination of the male genitalia...

I think I see the problem. This looks like a job for Wikimedia Commons, not Wikipedia!

For once, it would actually make sense for them to have thousands of pictures of penises. But guess what, they don't.

So which of the Commons regulars do you think would be going around begging for cocks?
http://culex.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/ ... milies.htm
http://culex.biol.uni.wroc.pl/cassidae/ ... hulkai.htm

[isaan]

This may at least deserve a dishonorable mention for self-referential irony. From Hans-Hermann Hupfeld (T-H-L) (permalink), at the end of the section "Early career" and just before "Later career" we find the following sentence, emphasis mine.

Although Professor Meitner was recognized for her work,[1] Dr. Hupfeld is usually ignored, and little or no account of his life exists.

[thekohser]

From Direct free kick (T-H-L):

Select players known for their extraordinary skill in this special form of kicking ability have been Steven Gerrard, Mehmet Scholl, Didier Drogba, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ronald Koeman, Zico, Johan Neeskens, Pierre van Hooijdonk, Andrea Pirlo, Roberto Carlos, Juninho, Marcos Assunção, Shunsuke Nakamura, Rivaldo, Rogério Ceni, Alessandro Del Piero, Wesley Sneijder, Sebastian Larsson, Juan Román Riquelme, David Beckham, Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldinho, Sejad Salihović, Nolberto Solano , Siniša Mihajlović , Lionel Messi , Alvaro Recoba , Marcelinho Carioca and José Luis Chilavert.

How extraordinary and special, that twenty-nine footballers have been blessed with recognition for their abilities! And some of those players are so extraordinary, a space must be inserted after their surname before a comma may be placed near them!

[HRIP7]

Stephanie Hickey (T-H-L)

At 1.65 metres (5 ft 5 in) tall and weighing 60 kilograms (130 lb),[2][5] she only speaks English.[1]

Author: LauraHale (T-C-L) (who earlier today was asked on her talk page by Tony1 (T-C-L) whether she has ever been paid to create articles that then ended up at DYK: she first deleted the question, and then answered "No").

This is the standard of writing of someone who has produced 372 DYK articles that appeared on the WP main page.

Here are some more snippets from that article:

With her competitive snowboarding career starting when she was fifteen years old, she has been injured several times in competition. She qualified for and competed in the 2010 Winter Olympics in snowboard cross, where she was finished in eighteenth place, two out from qualifying for the event finals.

Hickey is a snowboard slalom and snowboard cross competition,[6] who has been affiliated with the Victorian Institute of Sport[7] and coached by Lukas Prem.[1]

While snowboarding, she has injured herself several times, including September 2008 crash that dislocated five ribs, January 2009 tear of her medial collateral ligament while competing in Austria, and a 2010 concussion and memory loss following a crash.[1]

The paragraph following that repeats the verb "compete" in practically every one of its dozen sentences, combined with multiple occurrences of "competitor" and "competition".

Naturally, she's nominated it for DYK.

[EricBarbour]

Thanks for bringing up Laura Hale. If you need an example of an incompetent Wikipedia fangirl, you can't do much better/worse than Laura.
She's an obsessive science-fiction fan, and been mentioned on WR a few times before.
Works closely with the notorious Beriå Lima too.
http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=36652

[The Joy]

Sharjah (emirate) (T-H-L)

History

Human settlement in Sharjah has existed for over 5000 years.[2] Historically the emirate was one of the wealthiest towns in the region.[citation needed]

Around 1727 the Al Qasimi clan took control of Sharjah and declared the polity independent.[citation needed]

On 8 January 1820, Sheikh Sultan I bin Saqr Al Qasimi signed the General Maritime Treaty with Britain, accepting protectorate status in order to resist Ottoman domination. Like four of its neighbours, Ajman, Dubai, Ras al-Khaimah, and Umm al-Qaiwain, its position along trade routes to India made it important enough to be recognized as a salute state.[citation needed]

On 2 December 1971, Sheikh Khalid III bin Muhammad Al Qasimi (Sheikh Khalid III) joined Sharjah to the United Arab Emirates.[3] In 1972 the former ruler Sheikh Saqr staged a leftist coup and killed Khalid III. Saqr was unable to establish his rule and fled. Khalid III's brother, Sultan bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi, an author and historian, came to power.[4] In 1987 Sultan's brother Abdulaziz staged a coup while Sultan was abroad. Huge state debt was stated as the reason. UAE President Zayed vehemently denounced the coup, and a deal was reached for Sultan to be restored, while Abdulaziz would become the Deputy Ruler. Sultan, however, dismissed Abdulaziz quite quickly. In 1999 the Crown Prince (Sultan's eldest son) died of drug addiction while on vacation in their palace in England. Sultan made the decision to testify in front of a UK court. The new Crown Prince was appointed from a remote branch of the Family.

Sharjah is famous for a high rate of executions and canings, as well as other strict laws.

[FlossMore]

The worst sentences in Wikipedia? Off to today's main page for a FA or a DYK. Okay, DYK about as easy as LauraHale, even when not synonymous....

Something yummy from the main page:

Filopaludina martensi

"This species was firstly described by Eduard von Martens under the name Paludina cingulata in 1860 based on specimen collected by Henri Mouhot.[3] Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld created a new replacement name Vivipara Martensi for this species in 1864, because the name Vivipara cingulata was already used for an fossil species by Pierre Philippe Émile Matheron before.[2]"

No, the articles does not get back to how, when, and by whom it was named Filopaludina martensi, although Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld is listed as the species authority in the taxobox. Maybe a typo somewhere?

The type locality of the species, though, is the History of Thailand.

[thekohser]

This one came in from a Wikipediocracy reader who doesn't participate here.

Musa River (volcano) (T-H-L) (Note that article title -- is it a river? Or is it a volcano?)

First sentence of the article:

Hot springs and thermal vents at Musa River have no obvious connection to recent volcanic activity.

[The Joy]

Wikipedia:Harassment (T-H-L)

As is the case with on-wiki harassment, off-wiki harassment can be grounds for blocking, and in extreme cases, banning. Off-wiki privacy violations shall be dealt with particularly severely.

Wikipedia:Linking to external harassment (T-H-L)

Sites that routinely harass – Wikipedia strongly discourages any links to web sites that routinely harass, due to potential of the material on the site, taken as a whole, to cause distress.

[lilburne]

From Citation Needed

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the use of continuous positive pressure to maintain a continuous level of positive airway pressure.
http://citationneeded.tumblr.com/post/3 ... y-pressure

Motherfucker

The word is also commonly used as an expletive. For example if a person is told an incredible tale or description of an event they may respond with “Motherfucker” said slowly.
http://citationneeded.tumblr.com/post/3 ... therfucker

[thekohser]

From Jack Frost Ski Resort (T-H-L):

Big Boulder It's Partner, Jack Frost is what local snowboarders call the "Skiers Mountain."

It's been about that way since September 2011, until this guy thought he was fixing the problem in March 2012.

[86Mookie]

From the section "Characters" in the article Lolita (T-H-L)

Clare Quilty

Saves Lolita from Humbert.

I fear that this is an... um... unique interpretation of what Qulity does.

[lilburne]

Xavier Rudd (T-H-L)

He is well known on the music festival circuit for playing at musical festivals and concerts in Australia, North America and throughout Europe.