# Brag: "My" article is today's Wikipedia Featured Article **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 22, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-my-article-is-todays-wikipedia-featured-article/453811 "2008-06-22T18:12:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-my-article-is-todays-wikipedia-featured-article/453811/1 "2008-06-22T18:12:55Z")
Judy Garland, which looked like [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judy_Garland&diff=176234323&oldid=176069093) before I started reworking it and now looks like [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Garland) and is a Featured Article, is on Wikipedia’s [Main Page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) today, the anniversary of her death. It took a lot of work to get the article up to featured status and, while I certainly wasn’t the only contributor, I think it’s fair to say that my efforts were largely responsible and I’m very proud of it. Since it became the article of the day, it’s been vandalized dozens of times, including once while I was typing this post. People are assholes. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-my-article-is-todays-wikipedia-featured-article/453811/2 "2008-06-22T22:42:49Z")
Congratulations, and good job! And don’t let the assholes get you down. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-my-article-is-todays-wikipedia-featured-article/453811/3 "2008-06-22T22:52:38Z")
**Otto** , could you get any gayer? 🙂😛 ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-my-article-is-todays-wikipedia-featured-article/453811/4 "2008-06-22T23:19:21Z")
Considering that other articles I’ve gotten listed as “good” include Judy’s TV show, a gay porn star, his most notable film, Queer Eye, Zero Patience, a drag queen trapeze artist and a movie about male prostitutes, along with sourcing the homosexual implications of “Bride of Frankenstein,” I’m gonna say…no. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-my-article-is-todays-wikipedia-featured-article/453811/5 "2008-06-22T23:24:03Z")
Let’s just hope nobody [writes a report on her](http://news.scotsman.com/education/Falling-exam--passes-blamed.4209408.jp). 😛😃 Stupid Scots! 😉 Congrats. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-my-article-is-todays-wikipedia-featured-article/453811/6 "2008-06-22T23:24:48Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Considering that other articles I’ve gotten listed as “good” include Judy’s TV show, a gay porn star, his most notable film, Queer Eye, Zero Patience, a drag queen trapeze artist and a movie about male prostitutes, along with sourcing the homosexual implications of “Bride of Frankenstein,” I’m gonna say…no. [/QUOTE] So…what’s next for the Otto-man? Barbra Steisand? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-my-article-is-todays-wikipedia-featured-article/453811/7 "2008-06-22T23:32:41Z")
[QUOTE=Musicat] So…what’s next for the Otto-man? Barbra Steisand? 🙂 [/QUOTE] Ew, no, I can’t stand her. I’m kind of undecided as to what to work on next. I have the film version of “The Hustler” nominated for good article status and a couple other film articles are pretty close but I need more information on the production. I just picked up a copy of the original “Manchurian Candidate” today on DVD so I was thinking I might go there, but I’ve also gotten interested recently in this historic gay bar called the Black Cat. And still on the back burner are the articles for the Wonder Woman TV series and the 1950s syndicated Flash Gordon series but I can’t get really re-motivated about them. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-my-article-is-todays-wikipedia-featured-article/453811/8 "2008-06-22T23:39:10Z")
Shhhhhh! You’re mentioning all our straight crossover flicks. How are we going to recruit? Don’t you mention Tarzan and gladiator movies! ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brag-my-article-is-todays-wikipedia-featured-article/453811/9 "2008-06-23T02:23:35Z")
I love Judy Garland. I recently saw her in “The Pirate,” and I loved her and it. Thanks **Otto** 🙂