Least useful Wikipedia article?

What’s the least useful Wikipedia article you’ve ever come across. This one would be my guess

That’s it.

Can you come up with anything less informative?

That’s a good one. I’ll be on the lookout–I’m curious now.

I dunno, do stub articles really count? There’s a plethora of them in the Wiki.

Nah, the article linked by the OP can’t be the least useful item in Wikipedia; it has a picture!

Does anyone care about Kevin and Trudie?
(they’re friends of mine so I started a Wiki page for them)

The article about Kevin and Trudie may be trivial, but it tells exactly when and from where their radio program is broadcast. I’m not even sure that it’s that trivial, really. Do most local radio programs have Wikipedia pages? How about this page?:

This is mostly about a piece of thirty-year-old grafitti that is no longer readable.

There was a thread about this a few months ago (suspect I may have started it?) and Surok posted the superb mayonnaise jar.

The mayonnaise jar article is only a stub. Clearly, the article merely touches upon the vast reaches of mayonnaise jar related information out there. Is there an expert in the house who can better inform the world on Soviet era mayonnaise jars?

Small set (category theory)

Granted, I’m no mathematician, but can anybody tell me what this means?

So if I follow this, a category is a set, but a set can’t be a category, a relationship proven by large objects not being small. Or something.

The Russian version of the article?

There are poems on that page! I mean, some of that stuff looked like poems, and I ran it through Google translator and sure enough, poems. About mayo jars.

“Russia is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, inside a mayonnaise jar; but perhaps there is a key. That key is…er…creamy mayonnaise-y goodness?”

Those definitely lost something in the translation there.

I’d never run into this term before, but it makes perfect sense to me. Unfortunately, it’s a little difficult to explain to a layperson. The key is in the first paragraph:

Set theory and related disciplines can get pretty ugly if you need to worry about whether any particular collection of objects is a set. Working with the category of small sets rather than the category of all sets means that you don’t need to worry about some of the nastier bits that you would otherwise.

My nomination for the most useless Wikipedia article is Knuckles the Echidna. It’s not so much that it doesn’t contain any information; in fact, it’s very long. But who would ever care to know so much about a video game character?

Not so long ago there was a contest held to suggest “Least-Notable Wikipedia Article” as to be judged by the contest holder, Lore Sjoberg.

http://slumbering.lungfish.com/?p=406

Winner (though not qualifying for the contest) was an article for “Pumpkin-Headed Deer”; said article was deleted from WIkipedia about a month later :slight_smile:

Grand Prize winner in the contest was Cone cow which at least still exists.

Both of those aren’t bad, but both articles contain both internal and external links. I’m not sure they even come close to seven words with absolutely no links to anywhere, unless the picture counts.

This one has sixteen words and a single, pretty useless link, for instance