In which posters post link to Wikipedia pages that are perfectly wonderful and perfectly awful. No merely mediocre pages, please. The pages should either be wonderful works of scholarship that justify Jimmy Wales’ existence, or utter pieces of shit that Wales will have to account for on Judgment Day.
You don’t have to name one of each, by the way; you can list terrible pages, or just wonderful pages, or both; that’s your call. Nor I am going to put any limits on how many pages you can list. And I’m CERTAINLY not gonna define awful and awesome; that’s for each poster.
Okay, housekeeping’s over. I’m going to start with this overly-technical and utterly unreadable piece of shit, written by someone who does not understand the difference between “encyclopedia” and “medical textbook”:
It’s been fixed, but for a long time, the only example given in the zipper storage bag article was: “Serial killers have begun using the bags to hold mementos of past kills, because they store easier than jars.”
There are a number of fiction authors who limit their Wiki page content to exactly the wording of their bio that appears inside the back flap of their books, along with a list of their published titles. I can’t recall exactly which ones, but I’ve seen it more than once.
The Wikipedia article for the song “Amazing Grace” contains one of the best sentences I have ever read on Wikipedia: “In a culture where sailors commonly used oaths and swore, Newton was admonished several times for not only using the worst words the captain had ever heard, but creating new ones to exceed the limits of verbal debauchery.”
They have someone checking on their behalf at regular intervals (like, almost every day, which only takes two minutes) and deleting any additional material that any other user might have introduced into their page.
I didn’t list the pages, because they were not awesome, but only to flesh out the scope of the compendium offered by this thread.
On a side note, Wikipedia has internal categorizations for these things. You guys could add them to those categories if you feel they are either stellar or awful.
Really good articles can be featured and awful ones can be labeled too technical, etc.