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Each entry on this list should be an article on its own (not merely a section in a less unusual article) and of decent quality, and in large meeting Wikipedia's manual of style. For unusual contributions that are of greater levity, see Wikipedia:Silly Things. In this list, a star indicates a featured article. A plus indicates a good article.
Instances of people submitting fake or nonsense scholarly articles to expose an academic journal as a predatory publisher. List of sexually active popes: A surprisingly long list for a supposedly celibate role. List of shoe-throwing incidents: The recurring trend of high-ranking people being attacked with shoes. List of wrong anthems incidents
This list excludes the Wikipedia main page, non-article pages (such as redlinks), and anomalous entries (such as DDoS attacks or likely automated views). Since mobile view data became available to the Report in October 2014, we exclude articles that have almost no mobile views (5–6% or less) or almost all mobile views (94–95% or more ...
An obscure New World tribe with some interesting practices. Navel lint: A study proves that most belly button fluff is blue and that women are less likely to have it. Nasal sebum: Yes, that stuff on the surface of your nose. Old person smell: Apparently developed to allow humans to avoid partnering with people who are too old for them.
Featured articles comprise 6,687 out of a total of 6,949,166 articles on the English Wikipedia (about 0.1% or one out of every 1,030 articles). Articles that no longer meet the criteria can be proposed for improvement or removal at featured article review .
Articles which are linked to from many places generally cover important topics. They are likely to be read often and therefore should be of the highest quality. It may also be the case that such a popular article covers too broad a topic and could benefit from being split into several more concise entries.
An infamous article by The Sun that claimed that animals such as unicorns and bat-winged humans were found living on the moon. Great Stink: A London summer so smelly it prompted government action. Charles J. Guiteau: The strangest man to ever assassinate a US President.
The Wikipedia:Top 25 Report is a list that presents the 25 most viewed articles on the English Wikipedia for a given week, derived from the WP:5000, an automated report of the most viewed 5000 Wikipedia pages. For more information, see here. For achievements/records related to these number-one articles, click here.