# Find the worst Wikipedia article! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 27, 2006, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337 "2006-09-27T11:06:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/21 "2006-09-27T14:37:11Z")
Some real doozies came up in this thread: [Let’s post the stupidest Wikipedia articles we can find!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=370040&highlight=Andy+Griffith) My vote goes to **Miller’s** “Andy Griffith” contribution. For the record, I have had Soviet-style mayonnaise. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/22 "2006-09-27T15:58:21Z")
I had no idea something of this ilk had been tried before. My apologies. ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/23 "2006-09-27T17:26:04Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] For the record, I have had Soviet-style mayonnaise. [/QUOTE] Maybe you could add to the Wikipedia article, then. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/24 "2006-09-27T19:18:26Z")
This is a life-changing experience for me. For years I have been reading these boards. For years I have considered commenting on the weighty issues of the day. And for years I have suffered low self-esteem at my failure to do so because of my transparent lack of intellect and fear of exposure as a charlatan. I have perforce confined myself to the margins of academia one so often encounters in this particular forum. Not any more. I now know more about mayonnaise, and containers for same, than anyone else in my house. If anyone wants to debate this point they know what to do. More straightforward enquiries, requiring a factual answer, may be submitted to the ‘General Questions’ forum. Questions concerning mayonnaise in the arts and literature worlds go in ‘Cafe Society’. The ‘BBQ Pit’ is for people who hate mayonnaise and don’t care who knows it, whereas ‘About This Mayonnaise Board’ is the forum where administrative issues relating to all aspects of mayonnaise can be discussed. And now, two mercifully short items on the subject of mayonnaise as a fetish. Firstly, in [this piece](http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_5_42/ai_112735005) photographer Paul McCarthy discusses an issue the meaning of which completely escapes me: > [@](#): > > I’ve always been more interested in the simulation of the real. A mayonnaise jar as an orifice brings into the equation something that the human body cannot–it’s about consumption, the act of buying, and fetish. I don’t think that requires any clarification from _me._ Secondly, I am pleased to present to you the Sandwich/Burger/Jacket Potato menu for the [London Fetish Fair](http://www.londonfetishfair.co.uk/menu.htm), held on 12 March 2006 at a venue known as the _Prodigal_. I would be surprised if this link was safe for any but the most understanding of working environments. > [@](#): > > Menu > > Sandwiches > Spicy Southern Chicken Wrap – Chicken breast fillet in spicy crumb with lettuce and **mayonnaise**. £4.95 > Steak and Onion Wrap – Prime rump steak pan-fried with red onions and cheese. £4.95 > Thai Prawn Wrap – Battered prawns and crisp lettuce with sweet chilli sauce. £4.95 > S & J Melt – Chicken breast, crispy bacon and hickory BBQ sauce, smothered with melted cheese, > served in ciabatta. £4.95 > Tuna Salsa Melt – Ciabatta stuffed with flaked tuna, salsa and melted cheese. £4.45 > Club Sandwich – A mix of chicken breast, back bacon, tomato, lettuce and **mayonnaise** triple > stacked in fresh toasted bloomer. £4.95 > > Burgers & Jacket Potatoes > Hot Jacket Potato – Piled high with grated cheese and beans. £4.55 > Hot Jacket Potato – Crammed with flaked tuna and **mayonnaise**. £3.95 > S & J Burger – Pure Aberdeen Angus beef burger with cheese, bacon, lettuce and finished > with our house relish. £6.25 > Chicken Fillet Burger – Marinated chicken fillet in a focaccia with lettuce and **mayonnaise**. £6.45 My bolding. Finally I would just like to note that the second hand goods stall at the Fetish Fair was called ‘2nd Coming’. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/25 "2006-09-27T22:13:05Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] I had no idea something of this ilk had been tried before. My apologies. [/QUOTE] Why apologize? It’s still fun, and you’ve given us the gist of the mayonnaise jar. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/26 "2006-09-27T22:14:11Z")
Um, make that the _gift_ of the mayonnaise jar. I think I had the gist of it already. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/27 "2006-09-27T22:25:05Z")
[QUOTE=Surok] The [mayonnaise jar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayonnaise_jar) is delightfully pointless. [/QUOTE] In Soviet Russie, mayonnaise spreads you! ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/28 "2006-09-27T22:32:24Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] I’m sure we can find worse. I’m thinking obscure board wars, computer games, or Leet bitchery… [/QUOTE] [Will an article about a person who seems completely fictitious (and isn’t supposed to be) do?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Campbell) ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/29 "2006-09-27T22:40:03Z")
It’s interesting to see relatively inoccuous Wikipedia articles take a sudden nosedive (if you’ll excuse the pun in this context) into the realm of the shocking and scatalogical. Try [Nasal mucous](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogers) for instance, which you will discover if you search for “boogers”. It starts off properly (if a bit too obviously) enough: > [@](#): > > Nasal mucus is mucus from the nose. Nasal mucus is produced by the nasal mucosa, and serves to protect the respiratory tract. Nasal mucus is produced continually, and most of it is swallowed unconsciously. But by the time we near the end: > [@](#): > > A “snot rocket” is a slang term referencing the act of holding one nostril while forcefully exhaling through the other mucous filled nostril resulting in a “rocket”-like projection of phlegm. Common during allergy season and during winter cold and flu season. I suspect the author may have had a hidden agenda, a puerile desire to see the word “boogie” enshrined in a “legitimate” encyclopedia article, and he or she is probably still sniggering about it to this day. Sadly, this attempt, besides providing some childish yucks, does relatively little to inform. I suppose some pre-teens will get a kick out of learning “boogers” are technically referred to as “regoliths”, but beyond that, it’s a rather content-starved offering. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/30 "2006-09-27T22:42:18Z")
Hah! _Rhinoliths_! Sorry. I was reading an article about lunar soil over lunch. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/31 "2006-09-27T23:10:30Z")
[QUOTE=Loopydude] It’s interesting to see relatively inoccuous Wikipedia articles take a sudden nosedive (if you’ll excuse the pun in this context) into the realm of the shocking and scatalogical. Try [Nasal mucous](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogers) for instance, which you will discover if you search for “boogers”. [/QUOTE] Related to mucus is [rhinotillexomania](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nose-picking). I need to stop surfing the SDMB and Wikipedia in class. Robin ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/32 "2006-09-27T23:31:02Z")
[QUOTE=Loopydude] Hah! _Rhinoliths_! Sorry. I was reading an article about lunar soil over lunch. [/QUOTE] This reminds me of my wife’s favorite: [Tonsilloliths](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsillolith) (Warning: TMI picture in article!) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/33 "2006-09-28T00:17:57Z")
In Wikipedia, Russians, reverse [_ **you!!!** _](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_reversal) ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/34 "2006-09-28T02:09:40Z")
AFAICT, the article on [url;=“[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative\_Religious\_Ethics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_Religious_Ethics)”]Comparative Religious Ethics is totally vaaccuous. Some dud’s college essay on [Freud](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_inevitability). ---
**Author:** ![Timchik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@Timchik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Timchik)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/35 "2006-09-29T20:41:58Z")
[QUOTE=Surok] Maybe you could add to the Wikipedia article, then. [/QUOTE] Ah but to truly understand the mayonnaise jar, one must go the [same article](http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0) in the Russian Wikipedia. There you will find the various uses to which the jar could be put (ashtray, vase, growing green onions at home, urine samples, toothbrush holder), and samples of poetry (“Mayonnaise jars have inspired many poets…”). I’ve lived here for years, and never knew. Thank you, **Surok** ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/36 "2006-09-29T20:46:35Z")
[QUOTE=scotandrsn] This reminds me of my wife’s favorite: [Tonsilloliths](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsillolith) (Warning: TMI picture in article!) [/QUOTE] Beware the **giant tonsillolith**!!! It eats kittens and smells like bad kimchi! ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/37 "2006-09-29T20:55:31Z")
[QUOTE=MsRobyn] Related to mucus is [rhinotillexomania](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nose-picking). [/QUOTE] It’s been so long since I’ve seen an adult with a digit shoved way the hell up his nose. I had a streak for about a year when it seemed like almost every day, during my morning commute, I’d glance about innocently and see at least one grown man or woman in another car with their index finger jammed up in there to the second knuckle. Some of them even ate. It was dire. I felt like a very captive audience to a horror show. Then it just stopped, for some reason; or maybe I got good at subconsciously reacting to peripheral visual stimuli such that my gaze was preemptively averted, I don’t know. I was relatively happy, and at peace, once again. Thanks for the flashback. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/38 "2006-09-29T22:57:48Z")
[QUOTE=Loopydude] Beware the **giant tonsillolith**!!! It eats kittens and smells like bad kimchi! [/QUOTE] You’re assuming that there’s such a thing as _good_ kimchi. Robin ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/39 "2006-09-30T17:06:52Z")
[Knuckles the Echidna](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuckles_The_Echidna). It’s not bad, per se, but it’s one of the longest Wiki articles I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337/40 "2006-09-30T19:10:35Z")
[QUOTE=Timchik] Ah but to truly understand the mayonnaise jar, one must go the [same article](http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0) in the Russian Wikipedia. There you will find the various uses to which the jar could be put (ashtray, vase, growing green onions at home, urine samples, toothbrush holder), and samples of poetry (“Mayonnaise jars have inspired many poets…”). I’ve lived here for years, and never knew. Thank you, **Surok** [/QUOTE] Thank _you_, **Timchik**. It never occurred to me to look at the Russian version. Having done so, I must now go and write a ode to mayonnaise jars. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-the-worst-wikipedia-article/374337.md?page=3)