Let's post the stupidest Wikipedia articles we can find!

[Skald_the_Rhymer]

I am, as you might have inferred by the topic line, feeling mean.

Here’s a few rules:

1. No articles with fewer than fifty words.
2. No articles already nominated for deletion or tagged as NPOV.
3. No fair writing a stupid article yourself and nominating it.
4. I never include an item #4 in my lists.
5. Quote a remarkably stupid excerpt from the article, if you don’t mind.
6. Link, people, link!

Anyway, here’s my nomination: the article on the “Serpent Seed” doctrine, which teaches that Cain was the offspring of Eve and the Serpent

Here’s the remarkably stupid sentence:

@A Possibly Insane Wikipedia editor who clearly got not merely an "F" in high school biology

From this relationship, Cain was conceived and produced as a man/serpent hybrid. While from a scientific perspective, it is unusual to have interspecies hybrids that are fertile, it is not impossible as evidenced by animals such as the Beefalo/cattalo (a cross of an American Bison and a domestic European cow) and the Wolphin (a cross between a False Killer Whale and a Bottlenose Dolphin). The result of these interspecies cross-breeds is that they produce an offspring that has to breed back into one of its parental lineages. This would mean that Cain’s children would have come through Adam’s daughters, and the evidence of any difference between Adam and Cain’s lineages would have been diluted with each successive generation.

Words fail.

Next?

[pravnik]

This one is going to be hard to beat.

[thirdname]

Here’s a stupid talk page. Apparently a kid from a private school made a wikipedia article about the school. At some point the administration decided that he was responsible for it and had to keep any misinformation off of it or be expelled from the school. This would of course be impossible to do for his own good. He was banned from WP to protect him from the school and he was fine with that. The talk page is much, much longer than the article.

Lasalle HS talk page

One of my area high schools has a list of every hall in the building and what departments are there. Also it has multiple paragraphs about controversies over tardy policy, and drinks on field trips.

Westfield HS

Here’s some stupidity:

On November 16th 2002, a tremendous downpour postponed a Westfield Varsity Football game against rival Centreville High School for the Concorde District Championships. Coach Verbanic, desperate to keep the game on time, had the field covered with tarps, and then hired a helicopter in an attempt to dry the field. Several thousand dollars later, the game was still postponed, until November 18th with Westfield losing. The use of the helicopter for drying grass was later criticized.[9]

[thirdname]

@riker1384

This would of course be impossible to do for his own good. He was banned from WP to protect him from the school and he was fine with that.

change “for his own good” to “due to the nature of WP.”

[msmith537]

Ladies and gentlemen. I give you…
…Dick Assman

[Frank]

I’m going to put this into a forum I believe may be more appropriate.

Moved from IMHO to MPSIMS.

[Snooooopy]

Before I corrected it, the article on Soul Asylum guitarist Dan Murphy was bewildering in its mistakes. It claimed that Murphy was born in Australia (actually, Minnesota), joined the band in 1987 (a few years earlier, actually), lost his ability to play guitar in a car accident (which would make it hard to have contributed to the upcoming Soul Asylum album), and returned to Australia to study photojournalism (again, he’s a little busy being in Soul Asylum). It’s like the author was TRYING to screw up.

[Helen_s_Eidolon]

Maybe this is just me being dumb, but… yes, some species can have fertile offspring with each other, now and again. Female tigons (lion father, tiger mother) tend to be fertile. Or was there something else that was stupid?

[Terminus_Est]

@Helen's Eidolon

Maybe this is just me being dumb, but… yes, some species can have fertile offspring with each other, now and again. Female tigons (lion father, tiger mother) tend to be fertile. Or was there something else that was stupid?

Did you miss the part about Cain being a man/serpent hybird?

[opossum]

@riker1384

One of my area high schools has a list of every hall in the building and what departments are there. Also it has multiple paragraphs about controversies over tardy policy, and drinks on field trips.

Westfield HS

I thought that page was fascinating.

What happened on the 2004 bus trip that ruined things for everyone, forcing every kid on a field trip since to live under the constant threat of dehydration?

What is on the mysterious “I Hallway?”

[Snooooopy]

@opossum

I thought that page was fascinating.

What happened on the 2004 bus trip that ruined things for everyone, forcing every kid on a field trip since to live under the constant threat of dehydration?

What is on the mysterious “I Hallway?”

I bet that I, Robot lives there.

[Skald_the_Rhymer]

@Helen's Eidolon

Maybe this is just me being dumb, but… yes, some species can have fertile offspring with each other, now and again. Female tigons (lion father, tiger mother) tend to be fertile. Or was there something else that was stupid?

HE, closely related species–that is, ones in the same genus, like tigers and lions, or horses and donkeys–can cross-breed. Humans and snakes aren’t even in the same CLASS. They’re so far distant from one another that a cross-breeding isn’t even imaginable on Star Trek.

[Gymnopithys]

The article quoted in the OP is so abysmally stupid it’s absolutely futile responding to it.

I never thought such crap would find its way in WP. It should’ve been deleted the minute it got in.

[Ludovic]

@Fabulous Creature

HE, closely related species–that is, ones in the same genus, like tigers and lions, or horses and donkeys–can cross-breed.

But horses and donkeys DO produce viable human offspring – the honkey.

[elmwood]

A few of my favorites:

Olde English 800
Steel Reserve malt liquor
Hitler Has Only Got One Ball
Tin foil hat
List of Sopranos whackings
List of things you can spell on your calculator (5318008, etc)
List of white powders

[Helen_s_Eidolon]

@Terminus Est

Did you miss the part about Cain being a man/serpent hybird?

Uh… yup, pretty much. Sorry

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

Does very, very Geeky (in a fun way) count?

Wold Newton family

Dunno about stupid, but it sure is a fun idea!

[Skald_the_Rhymer]

@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor

Does very, very Geeky (in a fun way) count?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wold_Newton_family

Dunno about stupid, but it sure is a fun idea!

No, because it acknowledges that it’s talking about a fictional concept. One may question the needs of those who’ve helped edit it to get a life, but they do not reach, or even approach, or even DREAM OF the nadir of inanity that is the article on Serpent Seed.

[Captain_Lance_Murdoch]

This one falls into the category of unintentional comedy rather than stupidity. It’s the entry for “cosplay.”

It’s funny to me because in Farsi the word “cos” means, um, part of the female anatomy. With this in mind, read the following…

Cosplay can be seen at public events such as video game shows, as well as at dedicated cosplay parties at nightclubs or amusement parks. It is not unusual for Japanese teenagers to gather with like-minded friends in places like Tokyo’s Harajuku district to engage in cosplay. Since 1998, Tokyo’s Akihabara district has contained a large number of cosplay cafés, catering to devoted anime and cosplay fans. The waitresses at such cafés dress as game or anime characters; maid costumes are particularly popular.

[Giles]

@Captain Lance Murdoch

It’s funny to me because in Farsi the word “cos” means, um, part of the female anatomy. With this in mind, read the following…

But I’m sure you know that “cos” in “cosplay” is derived from the English word “costume”.