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On Wikipedia and other sites running on MediaWiki, Special:Random can be used to access a random article in the main namespace; this feature is useful as a tool to generate a random article. Depending on your browser, it's also possible to load a random page using a keyboard shortcut (in Firefox , Edge , and Chrome Alt-Shift + X ).
An entry promoting your hilarious web series about Wikipedia. Recreating this dumb list. Anything about hashtags. #IHateHashtags; Anything about how fat you are or how much weight you're losing (trust us; no one cares). Headlight flashing – I know, it's preposterous, even for Wikipedia.
Similarly, a given name page refers to an article about a given name or to a given name index article listing people who share a common given name. For purposes of this guide, surname pages, given name pages, and articles that are a combination of surname and given name pages (or about a name used more broadly) will be collectively referred to ...
A common practice is to entitle list articles as List of ___ (for example List of Xs).If (as is often the case), the list has multiple columns and so is in layout table form, the name or title List of Xs is still preferable to Table of Xs or Comparison of Xs (though the latter may be appropriate for articles that are actual tables of data comparing numerous features, e.g. Comparison of Linux ...
Wikipedia probably wasted as much time on this pointless list as it takes for one of these to run out. List of lists of lists: A list of all lists of lists -- and yes, it contains itself. List of non-water floods: Beep beep, massive waves of melted butter, wine, and chocolate coming through! List of paraphilias: Just too many to list.
Lists of unusual things in Wikipedia mainspace (see Category:Lists of things considered unusual) should have an external reference for each entry that specifically classifies it as unusual, to avoid making it a point of view (POV) fork of original research. Still, all such lists risk being deleted for lack of a neutral definition of what counts ...
This book can't discuss every possible mistake in article names—if it did, you'd need a forklift to carry it. If you have a very specific question about what to name an article for a geographical location in Ireland, for example—whether to use the official Irish name or a former English name—you'll probably find an answer at the policy page Wikipedia:Naming conventions (shortcut WP:NC ...
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