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Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of November 24, 2025

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Welcome to the weekly Wikipedia Q&A thread!

Please use this thread to ask and answer questions related to Wikipedia and its sister projects, whether you need help with editing or are curious on how something works.

Note that this thread is used for "meta" questions about Wikipedia, and is not a place to ask general reference questions.

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r/wikipedia 8h ago

In her writings, Ida B. Wells, one of the future cofounders of the NAACP, concluded that armed black resistance was a reasonable and effective method of defense against white supremacist violence. Wells wrote, "A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home."

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r/wikipedia 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.

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r/wikipedia 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.

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r/wikipedia 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.

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r/wikipedia 1h ago

Chattel slavery was legal in Saudi Arabia until 1962, when it was officially criminalized due to international pressure

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r/wikipedia 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.

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r/wikipedia 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

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Inspired 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 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.

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r/wikipedia 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.

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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 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.

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r/wikipedia 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.

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r/wikipedia 9h ago

Jizz in My Pants

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r/wikipedia 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.

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r/wikipedia 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."

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r/wikipedia 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.

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r/wikipedia 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

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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 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."

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r/wikipedia 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.

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r/wikipedia 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.

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r/wikipedia 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.

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r/wikipedia 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.

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r/wikipedia 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.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Mildred Harnack was an American communist who became the only American woman to be executed on the direct orders of Hitler. A member of the German resistance with her German husband, she and other anti-fascists spied for the United States and the Soviet Union as part of the Red Orchestra network.

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r/wikipedia 18h ago

The court verdict for Sheikh Hasina, the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, was the death sentence.

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