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* TakeAThirdOption: Most deletion discussions are closed as "keep" or "delete". However, some can end up closed for other reasons: either the page qualifies for a "speedy" deletion, so a discussion is redundant; the nominator withdraws without objection for others; no clear consensus in either direction is formed after several weeks; or the nomination is obvious {{Troll}}ing.
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* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Many of the category schemes can become this. For instance, there are "American singers", "American female singers", "American country singers", and "American female country singers".
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* ConversationInTheMainPage: Averted; this usually survives minutes, at most.
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* ThereIsNoSuchThingAsNotability: ''Utterly'' inverted.
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* CommonKnowledge: The pop-culture version of Wikipedia is overflowing with ridiculously phony and inaccurate information ("GeorgeWBush is a time-traveler from the year 3000 sent back in time to fight the Martians from the planet Venus!") Quite unlike the real-life version, it appears to have no blocking or vandalism policies whatsoever.
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* LumperVsSplitter: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Merging Wikipedia's guideline on lumping]]
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* LockedPages: Several forms, often involving different levels of user access required to edit.
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Wikipedia has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia an entry on itself]] and its history, for further reading.
Wikipedia also has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Tropes an entry on us.]] It also lists us in its [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Alternative_outlets directory of alternatives]], encouraging people to record their trope knowledge here, instead of there. See the WeAreNotAloneIndex for tropes that have Wikipedia articles.
Wikipedia also has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Tropes an entry on us.]] It also lists us in its [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Alternative_outlets directory of alternatives]], encouraging people to record their trope knowledge here, instead of there. See the WeAreNotAloneIndex for tropes that have Wikipedia articles.
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Wikipedia has [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia an entry on itself]] and its history, for further reading.
Wikipedia also has[[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Tropes an entry on us.]] It also lists us in its [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Alternative_outlets directory of alternatives]], encouraging people to record their trope knowledge here, instead of there. See the WeAreNotAloneIndex for tropes that have Wikipedia articles.
Wikipedia also has
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan Wikipe-tan]], specifically MoeAnthropomorphism.
* AprilFoolsDay: Since the very beginning, April Fools' pranks have run rampant on Wikipedia, even by established editors. See a list of them [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:APRIL here]].
* AprilFoolsDay: Since the very beginning, April Fools' pranks have run rampant on Wikipedia, even by established editors. See a list of them [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:APRIL here]].
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* AnthropomorphicPersonification: [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan Wikipe-tan]], specifically MoeAnthropomorphism.
* AprilFoolsDay: Since the very beginning, April Fools' pranks have run rampant on Wikipedia, even by established editors. See a list of them[[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:APRIL here]].
* AprilFoolsDay: Since the very beginning, April Fools' pranks have run rampant on Wikipedia, even by established editors. See a list of them
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* EditWar: Due to its size, these are just as likely to occur between administrators as between regular users. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars Sometimes they get ridiculous.]]
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* LumperVsSplitter: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Merging Wikipedia's guideline on lumping]]
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* PotHole: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sometimes Sometimes]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken taken]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To to]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludicrous ludicrous]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremes extremes]] - at least early in an article about a complex topic. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Piped_link They call it a "piped link" or "piping"]], after the | character in the Usemod-inspired syntax that potholes on [=MediaWiki=] use.
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* PotHole: [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sometimes Sometimes]] [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taken taken]] [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To to]] [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludicrous ludicrous]] [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremes extremes]] - at least early in an article about a complex topic. [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Piped_link They call it a "piped link" or "piping"]], after the | character in the Usemod-inspired syntax that potholes on [=MediaWiki=] use.
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Unfortunately, besides the serial deleters, there's also a phenomenon of 'page hoarders' who will sit on a certain page and revert and delete ''any'' changes made to it, and will spend all day arguing about it until the admins give in to them. Forget {{Wiki Vandal}}s, ''these guys'' are Wikipedia's biggest problem. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism_Unit Counter-Vandalism Unit]], seriously, just... take a look at what they made up.
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Unfortunately, besides the serial deleters, there's also a phenomenon of 'page hoarders' who will sit on a certain page and revert and delete ''any'' changes made to it, and will spend all day arguing about it until the admins give in to them. Forget {{Wiki Vandal}}s, ''these guys'' are Wikipedia's biggest problem. [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism_Unit Counter-Vandalism Unit]], seriously, just... take a look at what they made up.
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* SugarAndIcePersonality: If anyone's curious, Wikipedia ''does'' have a fun side to it. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_humor Enjoy]].
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* SugarAndIcePersonality: If anyone's curious, Wikipedia ''does'' have a fun side to it. [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_humor Enjoy]].
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* TVTropesInOtherWikis: We have [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Tropes a page]].
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* TVTropesInOtherWikis: We have [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Tropes a page]].
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* WikiMagic: Sometimes played straight, sometimes ''inverted'' with an editor's pet page. Inversions of this have rapidly become a common criticism as Wikipedia's tendency to focus on cutting as much content as possible, instead of adding new content, has increased.
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* WikiMagic: Sometimes played straight, sometimes ''inverted'' with an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OWN editor's pet page. page]]. Inversions of this have rapidly become a common criticism as Wikipedia's tendency to [[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deletionism focus on cutting as much content as possible, possible]], instead of adding new content, has increased.
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* {{Xenofiction}}: Well, except the "fiction" bit. The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human Human]] article reads as though it was written by alien scientists observing us. It even lists the [[EndangeredSpecies conservation status]] according to the IUCN red list: "least concern".
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* {{Xenofiction}}: Well, except the "fiction" bit. The [[http://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human Human]] article reads as though it was written by alien scientists observing us. It even lists the [[EndangeredSpecies conservation status]] according to the IUCN red list: "least concern".
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* {{Fancruft}}: [[http://xkcd.com/446/ Referenced]] by ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'' (again), and occurs in reality on some pages. The page for Earth used to have "DO NOT REPLACE THIS PAGE WITH '[[HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Mostly harmless.]]' EVER." hidden in the markup. It still has "[[SeriousBusiness Humorous references to the Douglas Adams novel Mostly Harmless are inappropriate content for this article]]" on the talk page, and is semi-protected so that only registered users can edit it (for several reasons).
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* {{Fancruft}}: [[http://xkcd.com/446/ Referenced]] by ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'' (again), and occurs in reality on some pages. The page for Earth used to have "DO NOT REPLACE THIS PAGE WITH '[[HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy '[[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Mostly harmless.]]' EVER." hidden in the markup. It still has "[[SeriousBusiness Humorous references to the Douglas Adams novel Mostly Harmless are inappropriate content for this article]]" on the talk page, and is semi-protected so that only registered users can edit it (for several reasons).
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* {{Defictionalization}}: Wikipedia has proven ''itself'' correct [[http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/10/2211220 at least once]].
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->''"At three in the morning I looked at my clock and thought, 'Good god! What on earth have I been doing for four hours?!' I looked at my screen. 'Plot summaries of PowerRangers episodes.' Damn."''
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Wikipedia is the most famous wiki out there, and is mostly responsible for inspiring the creation of other wikis ([[{{Older Than They Think}} although it was not the first]]). It presents its information as an encyclopaedia and focuses mainly on real-life information.
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Wikipedia is the most famous wiki out there, and is mostly responsible for inspiring the creation of other wikis ([[{{Older Than They Think}} ([[OlderThanTheyThink although it was not the first]]). It presents its information as an encyclopaedia and focuses mainly on real-life information.
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* {{Fannage}}: They have, for instance, plot summaries of every single ''Franchise/StarTrek'' episode - ''all'' series. Their coverage of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is also impressive, with about the half of the articles on that series rated either "good article" or "featured article". Though in a perfect example of serial deleting in action there's currently a discussion of the idea some guy had to 'merge' (delete) all the Enterprise episode pages so instead of the detailed summaries which currently exist there is a couple of sentences for each.
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* {{Fannage}}: They have, for instance, plot summaries of every single ''Franchise/StarTrek'' episode - ''all'' series. Their coverage of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is also impressive, with about the half of the articles on that series rated either "good article" or "featured article". Though in a perfect example of serial deleting in action there's currently a discussion of the idea some guy had to 'merge' (delete) all the Enterprise episode pages so instead of the detailed summaries which currently exist there is a couple of sentences for each.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This can often be seen by checking the edit history of an older article. Early Wikipedia articles didn't have wikilinks, categories, images, or footnotes. ''Very'' early articles (dating back to 2001) actually used a CamelCase wikilink style akin to what TV Tropes uses instead of the now-widespread markup used on nearly every other wiki.
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* WikiWalk: See Archive Binge above.
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* WikiWalk: See Archive Binge above.As one of the oldest and largest wikis around, you can go on especially long walks there.
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* EditWar: Due to its size, these are just as likely to occur between administrators as between regular users.
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* EditWar: Due to its size, these are just as likely to occur between administrators as between regular users. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars Sometimes they get ridiculous.]]
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redirects to Family Friendly which doesn\'t apply to Wikipedia
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* OurSuperStrictLanguagePolicy: Very similar, minus funny being acceptable.
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* {{Kuudere}}: If anyone's curious, Wikipedia ''does'' have a fun side to it. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_humor Enjoy]].
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* SugarAndIcePersonality: If anyone's curious, Wikipedia ''does'' have a fun side to it. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_humor Enjoy]].
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* ConversationInTheMainPage: Averted hard and fast - this usually survives minutes, at most.
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* ConversationInTheMainPage: Averted hard and fast - Averted; this usually survives minutes, at most.
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* ThreadMode: The bullet points version is averted hard in articles but played straight on talk pages and deletion process pages. The inline version, not so much.
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* CommonKnowledge: The pop-culture version of Wikipedia is overflowing with ridiculously phony and inaccurate information ("GeorgeWBush is a time-traveler from the year 3000 sent back in time to fight the Martians from the planet Venus!") [[DidNotDoTheResearch Quite unlike the real-life version]], it appears to have no blocking or vandalism policies whatsoever.
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* CommonKnowledge: The pop-culture version of Wikipedia is overflowing with ridiculously phony and inaccurate information ("GeorgeWBush is a time-traveler from the year 3000 sent back in time to fight the Martians from the planet Venus!") [[DidNotDoTheResearch Quite unlike the real-life version]], version, it appears to have no blocking or vandalism policies whatsoever.
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* {{Fannage}}: They have, for instance, plot summaries of every single ''StarTrek'' episode - ''all'' series. Their coverage of ''TheSimpsons'' is also impressive, with about the half of the articles on that series rated either "good article" or "featured article". Though in a perfect example of serial deleting in action there's currently a discussion of the idea some guy had to 'merge' (delete) all the Enterprise episode pages so instead of the detailed summaries which currently exist there is a couple of sentences for each.
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* {{Fannage}}: They have, for instance, plot summaries of every single ''StarTrek'' ''Franchise/StarTrek'' episode - ''all'' series. Their coverage of ''TheSimpsons'' ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is also impressive, with about the half of the articles on that series rated either "good article" or "featured article". Though in a perfect example of serial deleting in action there's currently a discussion of the idea some guy had to 'merge' (delete) all the Enterprise episode pages so instead of the detailed summaries which currently exist there is a couple of sentences for each.
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Given Wikipedia's role as a central information source, you can probably gain more info on the "what" of (for example) StarTrek from it than you can from actually watching the show, and that's nice. Here?
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Given Wikipedia's role as a central information source, you can probably gain more info on the "what" of (for example) StarTrek ''Franchise/StarTrek'' from it than you can from actually watching the show, and that's nice. Here?
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* WikiVandal: Overt vandalization is reverted rapidly - but subtle vandalization has been known to last months on less-travelled pages. One of the common complaints about accuracy aimed at Wikipedia. Some really outrageous claims in articles are often supported by nothing but the "citation" tag.[[superscript:[citation needed] ]]
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* WikiVandal: Overt vandalization is reverted rapidly - but subtle vandalization has been known to last months on less-travelled pages. One of the common complaints about accuracy aimed at Wikipedia. Some really outrageous claims in articles are often supported by nothing but the "citation" tag.[[superscript:[citation needed] ]][-[[superscript:[''citation needed''[=]=]]]-]
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* {{Fancruft}}: [[http://xkcd.com/446/ Referenced]] by {{XKCD}} (again), and occurs in reality on some pages. The page for Earth used to have "DO NOT REPLACE THIS PAGE WITH '[[HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Mostly harmless.]]' EVER." hidden in the markup. It still has "[[SeriousBusiness Humorous references to the Douglas Adams novel Mostly Harmless are inappropriate content for this article]]" on the talk page, and is semi-protected so that only registered users can edit it (for several reasons).
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* {{Fancruft}}: [[http://xkcd.com/446/ Referenced]] by {{XKCD}} ''Webcomic/{{XKCD}}'' (again), and occurs in reality on some pages. The page for Earth used to have "DO NOT REPLACE THIS PAGE WITH '[[HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Mostly harmless.]]' EVER." hidden in the markup. It still has "[[SeriousBusiness Humorous references to the Douglas Adams novel Mostly Harmless are inappropriate content for this article]]" on the talk page, and is semi-protected so that only registered users can edit it (for several reasons).
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Note a relevant index.
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Wikipedia also has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Tropes an entry on us.]] It also lists us in its [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Alternative_outlets directory of alternatives]], encouraging people to record their trope knowledge here, instead of there.
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Wikipedia also has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Tropes an entry on us.]] It also lists us in its [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Alternative_outlets directory of alternatives]], encouraging people to record their trope knowledge here, instead of there.
there. See the WeAreNotAloneIndex for tropes that have Wikipedia articles.
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* SockPuppet
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* [[TvTropesWillRuinYourLife Wikipedia Will Ruin Your Life]]
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As per edit-request thread, in part: Bias Steamroller is a rather questionable YMMV-like trope whereby a media critic is taken to task over a perceived excess of personal preference over objectivity. Bluenose Bowdlerizer seems wrong, or at least over-general: Wikipedia has a wealth of pages where accuracy is put ahead of the typical censorship targets. Distracted By The Sexy seems like a misapplication: that\'s a character being distracted by another attractive character and usually getting into an accident as a result. Possibly The Wiki Rule could apply, but as written it was sniping. The Internet Is For Porn when applied to real life seems like a common personal habit elevated into a excessive generalization, esp when applied to a diverse site like this one. Take It To The Forums is written as an \'aversion\', taking aversion to mean negation when it\'s something much more specific.
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* BiasSteamroller: Many academics still dismiss the validity of Wikipedia entirely, regardless of the fact that most of the information on the site is verifiable. Most of the disdain that many academics have for the site comes from the fact that it can be changed at any time by any person with an Internet connection, and particularly clever [[WikiVandal Wiki Vandals]] can subtly sow misinformation in articles that aren't caught for months.
* BluenoseBowdlerizer: Correctness is often sacrificed, even if that's against their policy (see DistractedByTheSexy).
* BluenoseBowdlerizer: Correctness is often sacrificed, even if that's against their policy (see DistractedByTheSexy).
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Some pages are decidedly NotSafeForWork.
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* TakeItToTheForums: Averted - Wikipedia has no official forums. At best, discussion pages can be used.
* TheInternetIsForPorn: Look up any of their [[PoorMansPorn "anatomy"]] pages. {{Uncyclopedia}} even said Wiki's page on breasts have more serviceable images than theirs.
* TheInternetIsForPorn: Look up any of their [[PoorMansPorn "anatomy"]] pages. {{Uncyclopedia}} even said Wiki's page on breasts have more serviceable images than theirs.
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* TheWikiRule: Tries to follow this for "encyclopedia", but is known to fail (often per {{Fannage}}).
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* DidNotDoTheResearch: When it comes to the data presented in some Wikipedia articles, you'd be well advised to do your own independent research and not just take the contents thereof as undisputed truth.
