# Instances where Wikipedia references the Straight Dope **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [April 1, 2025, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instances-where-wikipedia-references-the-straight-dope/1016471 "2025-04-01T21:35:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instances-where-wikipedia-references-the-straight-dope/1016471/1 "2025-04-01T21:35:03Z")
I was looking at this Wikipedia site after going down a rabbit hole and noticed that The Straight Dope is listed as a reference. > **[List of past presumed highest mountains](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_past_presumed_highest_mountains)** > > The following is a list of mountains that have been presumed, at one time, to be the highest mountain in the world. How general the following presumptions were is unclear. Before the Age of Discovery, no geographer could make any plausible assumption. > **[Which is taller, Mt. Everest or K2?](https://www.straightdope.com/21342608/which-is-taller-mt-everest-or-k2)** > > A STAFF REPORT FROM THE STRAIGHT DOPE SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD I thought I’d search for other instances (on pages which aren’t about The Straight Dope) and found it humorous that the only other one I could find was this: > **[Post-micturition convulsion syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-micturition_convulsion_syndrome)** > > In neurourology, post-micturition convulsion syndrome (PMCS), also known informally as pee shivers or piss shivers, is the experience of shivering during or after urination. The syndrome seems to be experienced more often by men than women. > The term "post-micturition convulsion syndrome" was coined in 1994 in the online question-and-answer newspaper column The Straight Dope, when a reader inquired about the phenomenon. > There has yet to be any peer-reviewed research on the topic. The most plausi... ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instances-where-wikipedia-references-the-straight-dope/1016471/2 "2025-04-01T21:40:21Z")
There was a time, a long time ago, where I was adding Straight Dope references. But I stopped editing Wiki about 15 years ago I think. I feel like the last things I did had to do with a local Revolutionary war hero. It looks like that was around 2008. Most of my edits are long gone. But I see at least some still exist. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instances-where-wikipedia-references-the-straight-dope/1016471/3 "2025-04-01T21:48:10Z")
Did you edit this one?: > **[Chicken hypnotism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_hypnotism)** > > A chicken can be hypnotized, or put into a trance, with its head down near the ground, by drawing a line along the ground with a stick or a finger, starting at the beak and extending straight outward in front of the chicken. If the chicken is hypnotized in this manner, it will continue to stare at the line and remain immobile for as long as 30 minutes. Other methods of inducing this state are also known. Ethologists refer to this state as 'tonic immobility', i.e. a natural state of semi-paralysi... ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instances-where-wikipedia-references-the-straight-dope/1016471/4 "2025-04-01T22:05:06Z")
Doesn’t look like it. That one has also been very active, so anything from 15+ years ago is probably edited over. I just checked, [it looks like there are 2442 references](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=500&offset=0&profile=default&search=Straight+Dope&title=Special:Search&ns0=1) to the “Straight Dope”. I doubt I did even 50 of them. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/instances-where-wikipedia-references-the-straight-dope/1016471/5 "2025-04-02T00:51:36Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > I just checked, [it looks like there are 2442 references](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=500&offset=0&profile=default&search=Straight+Dope&title=Special:Search&ns0=1) to the “Straight Dope”. Almost every page on that list is a new and enjoyable rabbit hole!