What is your favourite wikipedia article?

1. I've recently found this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_dogs The "List of Individual Dogs" contains all sorts of doggos who were famous for some thing or another. Categories include things like "Faithful dogs", "Saved Abandoned Babies", "Space Dogs", "Small Dogs", "Long-lived Dogs", "Ugly Dogs", and many more. Just reading the contents table alone makes me smile.
   — AliceTheGamedev


2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
   — ultra_casual


3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
   — ab00






4. [The List of Unusual Deaths](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths) is always a treat. Some excerpts: - Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer and Ohio, U.S., politician defending a man on a charge of murder, accidentally shot himself demonstrating how the victim might have shot himself while in the process of drawing a weapon when standing from a kneeling position. Though the defendant, Thomas McGehan, was ultimately cleared, Vallandigham died from his wound. - Tom Pryce, a driver in the 1977 South African Grand Prix, was killed after being struck on the head by a fire extinguisherwhen his car, travelling at 170 mph (270 km/h) hit and killed 19 year old Frederick Jansen Van Vuuren, a marshal who was running across the Kyalami race track to extinguish a burning car. - Kenneth Pinyan died from injuries caused by anal sex with a stallion. - Caitlin Clavette, 35, a Boston-area school teacher driving near the Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Tunnel, was struck and killed by a dislodged manhole cover, which crashed through the windshield of her car. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker called the incident "bizarre."
   — Snflrr


5. I lost half a work day laughing about the [Wikipedia entry for Action Park](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park), a now closed water park known for dangerous rides and injuring hundreds of people and killing more than a few people. Some Highlights: * Action Park's most successful years were the mid-1980s. Most rides were still open, and the park's later reputation for danger had not yet developed. In 1982, the deaths of two visitors within a week of each other and ensuing permanent closure of one ride took place, but that hardly dampened the flow of crowds.[16] The park's fortunes began to turn with two deaths in summer 1984 and the legal and financial problems that stemmed from the lawsuits. * The sleds were a large factor in the injuries. A stick that was supposed to control speed led, in practice, to just two options on the infrequently maintained vehicles: extremely slow, and a speed described by one former employee as "death awaits". * A skateboard park briefly existed, near the ski area's ski school building, but closed due to poor design after a season. Bowls were separated by pavement, which in many cases did not meet the edges smoothly. Former park employee Tom Fergus was quoted in the magazine Weird NJ saying that the "skate park was responsible for so many injuries we covered it up with dirt and pretended it never existed". * Super Go Karts: The karts were meant to be driven around a small loop track at a speed of about 20 mph (32 km/h) set by the governor devices on them. However, park employees knew how to circumvent the governors by wedging tennis balls into them, and they were known to do so for parkgoers. As a result, an otherwise standard small-engine car ride became a chance to play bumper cars at 50 mph (80 km/h), and many injuries resulted from head-on collisions. Also, the engines were poorly maintained, and some riders were overcome by gasoline fumes as they drove. * Super Speedboats: These were set up in a small pond, known by staff to be heavily infested with snakes. * In the mid-1980s GAR built an enclosed water slide, not unusual for that time; in fact, the park already had several such slides. On this one, however, they decided to build a complete vertical loop...The resulting slide, called the Cannonball Loop, was so intimidating, that employees have reported they were offered a hundred dollars to test it.
   — From_Wentz_He_Came


6. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Park Action Park in New Jersey. The stories on this place make it seem made up. But it's all real.
   — KissArmy1986






7. For your existential dread: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future?wprov=sfti1
   — DeweyCheatamAndHowe


8. The fast inverse square root page that covers a method used in Quake (including original code comments) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
   — Fermiparabox


9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sexually_active_popes
   — MattCloudy999






10. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Ice_Cream_Wars It's been changed now, but used to say "The violent conflicts, in which vendors raided one another's vans and fired shotguns into one another's windscreens, were more violent that one would typically expect from ice cream salesmen."
    — fibrglas


11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wikipedia
    — Richard-Hindquarters


12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard_delusion I have schizophrenia and have experienced this delusion. It's a very disorienting experience that makes me super anxious.
    — cepheid22






13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare wut? No. omg.
    — Mungo_Clump