Laid bare in many places around the world. Good golly, Miss Molly – jus' love your folly! Breast-shaped hill Aphrodite's artistic nudity shows itself not far from Mount Olympus. A plus ( ) indicates a good article.įor places with unusual names only, see Wikipedia:Unusual place names. In this list, a star ( ) indicates a featured article. For unusual contributions that are of greater levity, see Wikipedia:Silly Things. This definition is not precise or absolute some articles could still be considered unusual even if they do not fit these guidelines.Įach entry on this list should be an article on its own (not merely a section in a less unusual article) and of decent quality, and in large meeting Wikipedia's manual of style.

The article is a list or collection of articles or subjects meeting the criteria above.

The subject is distinct amongst other similar ones.

The subject might be found amusing, though serious.

The subject is a notorious hoax, such as the Sokal affair or Mary Toft.

The subject is well-documented for unexpected notoriety or an unplanned cult following at extreme levels, such as Ampelmännchen or All your base are belong to us.

The subject is a clear anomaly-something that defies common sense, common expectations or common knowledge, such as Bir Tawil, Märket, Phineas Gage, Snow in Florida, etc.

The subject is a highly unusual combination of concepts, such as cosmic latte, death from laughter, etc.

The article is something a reasonable person would not expect to find in a standard encyclopedia.If you wish to add an article to this list, the article in question should preferably meet one or more of these criteria: We should take special care to meet the highest standards of an encyclopedia with these articles lest they make Wikipedia appear idiosyncratic. These articles are verifiable, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are a bit odd, whimsical, or something one would not expect to find in Encyclopædia Britannica.

Of the over six million articles in the English Wikipedia there are some articles that Wikipedians have identified as being somewhat unusual. Wikipedia contains other images and articles that are similarly shocking or udderly amoosing. Still, all such lists risk being deleted for lack of a neutral definition of what counts as 'unusual'.Ī cow with antlers atop a power line pole. Lists of unusual things in Wikipedia mainspace (see Category:Lists of things considered unusual) should have an external reference for each entry that specifically classifies it as unusual, to avoid making it a point of view (POV) fork of original research.

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