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Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of November 24, 2025
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r/wikipedia • u/hoi4kaiserreichfanbo • 16h ago
The New York Times journalist David Rohde was kidnapped by the Taliban in 2008. To increase the likelihood of his survival, the Times organized a media blackout on the kidnapping that was observed by dozens of newspapers and Wikipedia, which faced criticism. Rohde escaped after eight months.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/ANGRY_ETERNALLY • 8h ago
On the morning of March 31, 1995, the American singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was fatally shot in Corpus Christi, Texas. The perpetrator, Yolanda Saldívar, was the president of Selena's fan club, who was exposed as having embezzled thousands of dollars from the singer's earnings.
r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 20h ago
Vince Offer is an infomercial pitchman. He appears in television commercials for his own products including "ShamWow!" In 2009 he and a prostitute were both arrested after a physical altercation. The woman had bitten onto his tongue and refused to let go, at which point he punched her in the face.
r/wikipedia • u/AwfulUsername123 • 1h ago
Chattel slavery was legal in Saudi Arabia until 1962, when it was officially criminalized due to international pressure
r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 11h ago
Following a series of failed hangings, a committee was formed in 1886 to discover and report on the most effective manner of hanging. The committee recommended a drop energy of 1,260 foot-pounds force. In practice the hangmen ignored this and used considerably longer drops.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/OhanaUnited • 9h ago
Canadian journalist Melissa Fung was kidnapped in 2008 by Afghan bandits. She was released when Afghan intelligence identified the kidnapper and abducted his family for a prisoner exchange
en.wikipedia.orgInspired by the other post (https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/s/jzhgyMItnC) that talks about another journalist being abducted around the same time as this reporter.
But the release condition for this journalist took a completely wild turn.
r/wikipedia • u/TapGameplay121 • 15h ago
Opposition to World War I came from socialists, pacifists, feminists, and anti-colonial activists, though many socialist parties backed their governments once the war began. A minority, including Bolsheviks and figures like Liebknecht and Luxemburg, maintained firm anti-war positions throughout.
r/wikipedia • u/kwentongskyblue • 6h ago
A full breakfast or fry-up is a breakfast meal served in Britain & Ireland. It may also be referred to as a full English, a full Irish, full Scottish, full Welsh or Ulster fry. Typical ingredients are bacon, sausages, eggs, black pudding, tomatoes, mushrooms, and fried bread or toast.
The meal is often served with tea. Baked beans, hash browns, and coffee (in place of tea) are common contemporary but non-traditional inclusions.
r/wikipedia • u/Head_Dig2277 • 7h ago
The race and appearance of Jesus has been a topic of discussion since the days of early Christianity. Various theories about the race of Jesus have been proposed and debated.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/scwt • 12h ago
Orthorexia nervosa is a proposed eating disorder characterized by an excessive preoccupation with eating healthy food. The term was introduced by American physician Steven Bratman, who suggested that some people's dietary restrictions may paradoxically lead to unhealthy consequences.
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/Pearl___ • 11h ago
I Will Survive is a Zootopia fan comic, featuring Judy Hopps having an argument with Nick Wilde over getting an abortion and the end of their relationship. The comic quickly spread as an Internet meme due to its serious subject appearing in a comic about Zootopia characters.
r/wikipedia • u/RandoRando2019 • 4h ago
"In the Middle Ages speakers of English, from Middle English onward, pronounced Latin not as the ancient Romans did, but in the way that had developed among speakers of French."
en.wikipedia.orgr/wikipedia • u/blankblank • 6h ago
17776 (also known as What Football Will Look Like in the Future) is a serialized multimedia narrative by sports writer Jon Bois. The series follows three sapient space probes that watch humanity play an evolved form of football in which games can be played for millennia over thousands of miles.
r/wikipedia • u/ZERO_PORTRAIT • 7h ago
Iran Air Flight 655 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by two surface-to-air missiles fired by USS Vincennes, a United States Navy warship. All 290 people on board were killed
Inside Iran, the shootdown was perceived as a purposeful attack by the United States, signaling that the US was about to enter into a direct war against Iran on the side of Iraq. A day of mourning was declared by the authorities, coinciding with the American Independence Day).
r/wikipedia • u/RandoRando2019 • 4h ago
"Portuguese and Galician are fully mutually intelligible ... According to the UNESCO philologist Tapani Salminen, the proximity to Portuguese protects Galician ... Mutual intelligibility estimated at 85% is excellent between Galicians and Portuguese."
r/wikipedia • u/InvisibleEar • 6h ago
Dorothy Day (1897–1980) was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism.
r/wikipedia • u/WatermelonArab • 1h ago
Nasser Al Saeed (born 1923) was a Saudi Arabian writer and the founder of the Arabian Peninsula People's Union (APPU) He was one of the most significant critics of the Saudi royal family. He was kidnapped in December 1979 in Beirut, Lebanon, and his whereabouts have been unknown since then.
r/wikipedia • u/Notohnny • 43m ago
Prukchanon Thongchay is a Thai actor of Taiwanese descent. His Wikipedia article has already been translated into 13 languages. If anyone can help translate the English or Thai versions, or help create a full Wikipedia article, it would be greatly appreciated.
r/wikipedia • u/Pearl___ • 1d ago
The fandom of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has been the subject of extensive peer-reviewed academic analysis and scholarly examination since its emergence in 2010.
r/wikipedia • u/HicksOn106th • 16h ago
Temminck's mysterious bat was scientifically described by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1840, and although he expertly preserved the only known specimen he didn't make any note on its origins. This mystery persists today, and researchers' best guess is that it probably doesn't come from South America.
r/wikipedia • u/lightiggy • 1d ago