Wikipedia:Unusual articles/Removed

Entries that have been removed from Wikipedia:Unusual articles, either for not being unusual enough or for being deleted as non-noteworthy. (Entries that are still listed on the page, but not in their original format, e.g. ones that were merged into other entries, will not be listed here.)

Notes

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Pages removed due to content

The bane of many Wikipedians' existence.

An ambigram.

These pages were just too usual or just too low-quality to be listed.

165 University Avenue	A small rented office building on University Avenue, the main commercial street in Palo Alto, California. Both Google and Paypal started there, among others.
2004 Pitcairn Islands sexual assault trial	Involving a whole third of the entire male population.
Advice to T-Mobile IPv6 users	An information page that gives out instructions for T-Mobile users what to do when their IP address is banned from making accounts and editing on Wikipedia.
"All Summer Long"	A song where two karaoke cover versions became one-hit wonders in 2008 on the Billboard Hot 100 because the original song was not released on iTunes, only to radio. One of the covers even charted a few places higher than the original.
Ambigram	A type of calligraphic design that includes words which read the same when reversed or flipped upside down.
The Anarchist Cookbook	Have you ever been in need of an easy-to-follow bomb manual? Well, now you have it.
Angry Video Game Nerd	Probably one of, if not, the oldest internet web series to "take you back to past to play those shitty games that suck ass".
Apotheon	A Metroidvania taking place entirely on Ancient Greek pottery.
Assassination of Orlando Letelier	How a car bomb lead to a assassination of a Chilean diplomat.
Atar, Padang Ganting	An Indonesian village with a monument resembling a photocopier.
Attila	Before he became the Piano Man, Billy Joel was making really awful psychedelic rock.
Bent Pyramid	They hadn't quite worked out the technique yet.
Berwick-upon-Tweed	A small town which can't decide whether it's in Scotland or England, and was at "war" with Russia for over a hundred years all by itself.
Pete Best	The original drummer for the Beatles, pre-Ringo. He was dismissed in 1962, and then formed an obscure band called "The Pete Best Four" that was active from 1988 until 2025. (See also Chad Channing below)
Biggus Dickus	A fictional Roman officer, who wanks as high as any in Wome, from the Monty Python film Life of Brian.
The Book of Mormon	A Tony Award winning musical about Mormon missionaries in Uganda.
Burning of the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala	One of the most tragic episodes in the history of relations between the two countries.
Chad Channing	The original drummer for Nirvana, pre-Dave. He was dismissed in 1990, and then formed an obscure band called "Before Cars" that was active from 2006 until 2013. (See also Pete Best above)
John Allen Chau	A lesson for all of us: don't stick religion where it's not wanted.
Chauchat	The worst machine gun ever invented.
Che Bong Nga	A Cham king who also went by the nickname Po Binasuor. No, he's not related to a smoking device, a Teletubby, or a dinosaur.
Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov	A Russian spy who used a fake Brazilian passport to gain access to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. He was identified and is now serving a sentence in a Brazilian federal prison.
Collier Motors	An American Motors Corporation dealer that is still in business despite the fact that AMC stopped manufacturing cars in 1987.
Color TV-Game	Nintendo's humble beginnings.
Computer Space	The world's first arcade game machine, launched in 1970.
Conservapedia	A right wing, young earth creationist answer to Wikipedia.
Cosplay	A subculture centered on dressing up as fictional characters.
Daniel A. Grout	An individual whose last name has absorbed itself into the linguistic culture of Reed College.
Douglas Corrigan	A pilot nicknamed "Wrong Way" Corrigan after he made such a grave navigational "error" that, after taking off from New York, he landed in Ireland instead of Los Angeles.
Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter	Congratulations! You finished the game! You just saved a world of colorful magical creatures from a villain who wanted to plunge it into darkness. Everyone is happy now! So, during the credits, we're going to show you, in a very traumatic way, that it all turned out to be the dream of a child in a coma after suffering a car crash!
East Africa rugby union team	Did this rugby team really select a future dictator to play for them?
Elysia chlorotica	A solar-powered sea slug.
Emilia Pérez	A film about a Mexican transgender cartel leader made by a French guy who didn't film it anywhere even near Mexico because he "already knew enough". Surprisingly managed to anger every community it pandered to and was still nominated for 13 Oscars, winning 2. Inspired the short film Johanne Sacreblu in response.
Fantasmagorie	A claimant for the title of the first animated cartoon.
Ferdinand Lop	Perpetual candidate for the French Presidency who ran on a platform of outlawing poverty after 10:00 PM.
Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals	Final Fantasy: the anime!
Fire on the Mountain	An alternative history book about a successful John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry.
"The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)"	A 2013 song "created to fail" by Norwegian comedy duo Ylvis that instead ended up becoming a global smash hit.
Fritz the Cat	"We're not rated X for nothin', baby!"
The Funniest Joke in the World	A Monty Python sketch depicting the writing of a joke so funny that people die within seconds of hearing it.
Goat Simulator	What do you mean you've never fantasised about being a goat? Enough people have to warrant the oddly named sequel Goat Simulator 3.
Goiânia accident	The worst nuclear accident in history in which nothing exploded.
The Great Gatsby (1926 film)	The lost original adaptation, which the author's wife hated.
The Guianas	If you think about it, three extremely sparsely-populated South American nations that are culturally part of the Caribbean, with a population of Amerindians, Indians, Africans, Maroons, mixed-race Indo-Africans, Javanese, Chinese, Hmongs, Portuguese, Lebanese, Haitians, and Brazilians, is pretty weird.
The Gulag Archipelago	What really went on in the Soviet Russian prisons.
Guns of the South	A novel where 20th century white South Africans travel back in time to give lots of AK-47 to the southern side of the American Civil war.
"Hard Rock Hallelujah"	Eurovision goes metal.
"Have You Forgotten?"	A very likely pro-war song of the post 9/11 era.
Tania Head	A woman who claimed to be a 9/11 survivor despite living half the world away at the time.
Hollywood (Mannequin character)	A fictional character played by Meshach Taylor in the 1987 movie Mannequin.
"How to Eat with Your Butt"	Highlight of this article: "Not to be confused with the episode where South Park characters really do eat with their butts".
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces	Another claimant for the title of first ever animated cartoon.
International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs	Who knew this existed?
Japanese history textbook controversies	The rare case where history is written by the losers.
Jimmy Jump	A chronic streaker.
"The Joy of Sect" "Trapped in the Closet"	Adult cartoons take on Scientology, despite each having a prominent member in their cast. Results vary.
Judica-Cordiglia brothers	Italians who claimed that they recorded audios that proved the Lost Cosmonauts conspiracy.
Julie d'Aubigny	A bisexual fencer who burnt down a convent to save her girlfriend.
Kalmyk Americans	Mostly came after World War II, and mostly haven't had an ancestor who lived in Kalmykia since the 19th century.
Klüver-Bucy syndrome	A behavioral disorder that can produce hypersexuality, as well as exploring the world around them using their tongues and fingers.
Kumis	A traditional drink of the people of Central Asia made from fermenting mare's milk.
List of Genshin Impact characters	Several of the many dozens somehow surprisingly have their own articles.
Lethal Company	Who would win? a multibillion dollar franchise with 2 decades of experience under its belt or a singular furry who used to make Roblox games? (Not to be confused with Limbus Company.)
Lorem ipsum	A mutilated Latin passage widely used as a place-holder in typefaces.
Macquarie Island	Where rocks from the Earth's mantle get exposed to the surface.
Marijuana Party of Canada	A Canadian federal political party whose platform is to end prohibition of cannabis. (See also: Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party)
Meet the Press	NBC's own news show doesn't seem unusual, but what makes it on this list is that it is the longest-running TV show in history, debuting back in 1947 and is probably the longest-running TV show whose fans think it hasn't fallen off.
A Modest Proposal	A satirical essay from 1729 suggesting that the poor should sell their children as food to get out of poverty.
Monster infighting	A demon civil war?
Mooning	The act of exposing one's bare buttocks.
Marilyn Monroe in popular culture	The queen of Hollywood had a gigantic impact in several fields of popular pop culture.
Mr. Potato Head	A popular children's doll, consisting of a plastic model of a potato.
Alessandra Mussolini	Mussolini still holds office.
My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy	Bart Simpson's (actually, his voice actress's) autobiography, which she performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2004.
N-Gage	A 2003 Nokia cellphone and handheld gaming device in one!
Héctor Germán Oesterheld	The interesting, yet tragic, story of one of Argentina's most important comic book creators.
Boris Onishchenko	Olympian who was disqualified for illegal use of a modified épée.
Our First Time	The first major internet hoax.
Overseas Community Affairs Council	A Taiwanese organization that keeps track of overseas Chinese populations from Greater China with a Taiwanese orientation. Taiwan does like to take advantage of China's overseas population even despite the One China policy, huh?
Gennady Padalka	Former holder of the record for the longest time spent in space.
Page Three girl	A woman who poses for topless photographs published in UK tabloid newspapers.
Parking chair	Chairs placed on parking spaces to mark or reserve them for one.
Slobodan Praljak	Bosnian Croat war criminal who took his own life in the courtroom after hearing the verdict of his sentence.
Prince George of Wales Princess Charlotte of Wales	Two members of the British Royal Family whose pages are older than their subject.
Project Ragtag	A curious, and kind of unknown, cancelled Star Wars video game projected by Uncharted creator Amy Hennig.
Proposed acquisition of Warner Bros.	A big media company being acquired by other big media companies.
Pruitt-Igoe	A housing project in St. Louis that consisted of 33 11-story apartment buildings. Design defects and vandalism led to its demolition after only 16 years.
Psychic vampire	A "vampiric" individual that supposedly drains the life-force of other human beings.
Greg Rasmussen	A very improvable tale of surviving in the African wilderness.
Emile Ratelband	Dutch television nutter and "motivational" speaker who applied to legally change his age.
A Rebel in Time	Another alternative history novel about time travel and the American Civil War.
Reverence	Granite whales diving into a sea of grass near the Ben & Jerry's ice cream headquarters.
S3RL	An Australian hardcore DJ known for incorporating Japanese pop culture (eg. anime, video games, manga, and hentai) into his songs. His name originated from the profane word arsehole, but shortened to arserl by him as a safer alternative and the name stuck, as he made the decision to make it his stage name.
Yendri Sánchez	Serial event invader who was found dead in 2018, apparently as the result of kinky sex gone wrong.
Ignaz Semmelweis	Was committed to an asylum because he said that washing your hands is good.
Sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers	Personnel from the United Nations committing sexual abuse.
Shepseskare	Pretty ironic for an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh's name to slightly predict the name of a 16th century-English playwright and poet, huh?
Smells Like Nirvana	Weird Al's parody of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
Smile	An unfinished Beach Boys album that is one of the most written-about and speculated-upon works in popular music history.
Sonderkommando photographs	Important photographic evidence for the Holocaust.
Squaring the circle	It is impossible, using only compass and straightedge, to construct a square with the same area as a given circle. This problem occupied mathematicians for centuries.
State of Buenos Aires	An Argentine secessionist republic that was unfortunately founded 149 years before the September 11 attacks.
Stilyagi	A sub-culture during the Soviet era that was actually interested in topics from Western culture.
Drew Struzan	Perhaps the biggest Hollywood artist that you may never heard of.
Sugababes	This band performed a Ship of Theseus by gradually replacing its three original members over several years, then disbanded while the original members reformed, but the new group had to use a different name initially.
Nelson Sullivan	A pioneer of vlogging in the 1980s.
Svalbard	Where it's so cold that you're not allowed to die there, as your body won't decompose.
Tabby's Star	a.k.a. "WTF" (Where's the Flux?) for its unexplained changes in brightness, leading to conspiracy theories of a Dyson sphere surrounding it.
Tank Man	An unidentified man who achieved global recognition after standing in front, and blocking the procession of a column of tanks, the morning after the bloody suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
"Teletubbies say "Eh-oh!""	A novelty nursery-rhyme remix of the Teletubbies theme tune that got to number one in the United Kingdom, and was narrowly beaten for Christmas number one in 1997. This did not stop Bob the Builder from getting Christmas number one three years later, though.
Theranos	Fake blood test company that made billions in short order and collapsed just as quickly a decade later.
Thumb twiddling	What people did to waste time before the Internet existed.
Tiny Tim	A crooner with a 6'1" tall and ghoulish appearance who sang in a falsetto voice and played a ukulele.
Sergei Tretyakov (intelligence officer)	An alleged former Russian spy who defected to the United States in 2000. In 2008, he would co-written a book about Russian espionage activities after the end of the Cold War.
Unibrow	The presence of hair between the eyebrows (sometimes called a monobrow).
U.S. Games	A game publisher from the Atari era that was actually owned by Quaker Oats.
Varg Vikernes	Pioneer in both black metal and Neo-Nazism, a murderer, and as of recently, tabletop game creator.
Voyager Golden Record	A compilation of sounds and images of humanity on a phonograph record made of gold-plated copper. It was sent to space in 1977 and is currently the farthest man-made object from Earth.
VTuber	Anime meets streaming culture with lucrative and often rather sexual results.
"We Are the Winners"	They came sixth.
"We Didn't Start the Fire"	A song covering the major events of 40 years. Check "Events and people outlined" for explanations of each.
White Rabbit (comics)	One of Spider-Man's strangest villains.
Wikipedia coverage of Donald Trump	A site talks about itself talking about a president.
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey	Horror movie about Winnie-the-Pooh, from the director who probably hated that bear as a kid. The film went on to "win" five Razzies and now has its own cinematic universe.
Wernher von Braun	He lead the development of both rocket technology in the German Third Reich and later of rocket and space technology in the United States.
Yesterday and Today	A North American release from the Beatles that is most notorious for its album art, which features the Fab Four posing with decapitated baby dolls and chunks of raw meat.
Volodymyr Zelensky	When you play the president of Ukraine in a TV series so well you actually become President of Ukraine in real life.

Pages removed due to deletion or merging

There's a lot to say about this flower, but you only need the title.

"Sir, you are allowed to burn the flag!"

These pages got deleted for not being noteworthy enough, or were merged into other articles that were too usual to list or another unusual one.

10:08	The time shown by most watches in magazines and newspapers, because it makes them look "happy".
Ablutophobia	Fear of showering or any other form of bathing. Most often suffered in (insert your least favourite region here).
Acetylseryltyrosylseryliso...serine	1185 letters? These protein names are getting to be a bit much. Possibly the longest word ever printed for a reason other than "check out this long word".
Alcohol-infused whipped cream	Do you like to squirt whipped cream right into your mouth from the bottle? This should spice that right up.
Alien abduction insurance	As one insurance broker said, "Let’s face it – insurance is so tedious that if I can enlighten my dreary life with a bit of humor every now and again, I will."
Among Us chicken nugget	An impostor spotted in a McDonald's meal, which sold for almost US$100,000 on eBay.
Arm-Fall-Off-Boy	The first applicant to be rejected from the Legion of Super-Heroes. His superpower was the ability to temporarily detach either arm and use it as a club with the other.
Bad Sex in Fiction Award	Created to draw attention to the worst-of-the-worst in describing sex.
Bads	Like goods, but no one wants them; notable for being the word you'd come up with for this concept as a joke.
Behind the sofa	Where young British children hid from menacing scenes in sci-fi TV, now recalled humorously and nostalgically by British adults.
Big Wheel	Another of Spider-Man's strangest villains.
Booger	Slang for the partly solidified mucus from a human nose.
Border between West Jersey and East Jersey	A specific border that has been disputed for years.
Chronophobia	Fear of time.
Cneoridium dumosum (Nuttall) Hooker F. Collected March 26, 1960, at an Elevation of about 1450 Meters on Cerro Quemazón, 15 Miles South of Bahía de Los Angeles, Baja California, México, Apparently for a Southeastward Range Extension of Some 140 Miles	The longest title in the history of Wikipedia (250 out of a possible 255 characters), for a scientific paper whose title really said it all.
Criticism of Mother Teresa	By people such as Christopher Hitchens, Tariq Ali and devout Hindus.
Danish flag rules	Why the only flag you can burn legally in Denmark is the Danish one.
Descent from Adam and Eve	Wait, in theory, doesn't everyone have this?
Deep-fried Twinkies	Americans saw the deep-fried Mars bar and worried that their rule over unhealthy food was under threat. This was the result.
Dilberito	A vegan burrito promoted by Dilbert. "Because of the veggie and legume content, three bites of the Dilberito made you fart so hard your intestines formed a tail." - Dilbert creator Scott Adams
Endor Holocaust	Several people saw Return of the Jedi and thought "wouldn't the Death Star debris kill all the Ewoks?". Official Star Wars material has given several explanations.
Evil Overlord List	How to avoid the movie clichés.
Exploding donkey	A bomb delivery device that makes a real ass of its target.
Exploding toad	An as-yet unexplained phenomenon observed in April 2005 in Germany and Denmark. Suggested as a possible weapons delivery system.
Eyre legend	Stories of saving kings in battle explain why this family's arms contain a disembodied leg.
Fictional chemical substance	Compounds and minerals that exist only in fiction.
Five-minute hypothesis	Have we only been around for 5 minutes?
Freedom Town, USA	A Fortnite map that was meant to promote Kamala Harris' presidential campaign in 2024. It didn't help.
Roger Fuckebythenavele	A rather simple man whose name contains the earliest unambiguous use of the word fuck.
Galambosianism	A short-lived doctrine of intellectual property absolutism, which never caught on because, under its own laws, its owner was the only person allowed to disseminate it.
Garden gnome liberationists	Vive la révolution des gnomes!
Grilled Cheese Aspiration	Something to do with the game The Sims 2.
Heaven's Gate (religious group)	A relatively unknown story of alien cult.... that ended up in a mass suicide in 1997.
Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch	A fictional weapon depicted in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It is an ancient Christian artifact that explodes when its pin is pulled out.
How to keep an idiot busy	No description of an article yet. Please return in five minutes.
If It Had Happened Otherwise	Winston Churchill, apart from being a maker of history, was a writer of alternate history.
The Incredible Popeman	The only infallible hero.
Infinite Cat Project	Cats looking at cats looking at cats...
International Flat Earth Research Society	This Flat Earther group has members all around the globe.
List of nontraditional bagpipe usage	Some unorthodox uses for the good ol' Scottish lung.
List of people with reduplicated names	...such as Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Neville Neville.
List of political flops	Couldn't even get their families to vote for them.
List of song titles phrased as questions	What's going on? Where is the love? Should I stay or should I go?
Lyttle Lytton Contest	Like the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, but "Lyttler".
The Mad Pooper	An unidentified woman in Colorado Springs, CO repeatedly defecated in public while jogging.
Makes caterpillars floppy	A gene in the Photorhabdus luminescens bacteria, controlling the production of a lethal toxin. Guess what it does.
Match fixing in Romanian football[1]	The Eskimo have many words for snow, the Romanian have one word for football-fixing. (That's soccer-fixing to youse, Yankees!)
Methionylglutaminyl...serine	Another long protein, this time 64060 letters long.
Mull of Kintyre test	When can a human penis be shown on British television?
Musical career of William Shatner	A truly... great actor... is not always... a GREAT!... musician.
Newton's flaming laser sword	Not an actual weapon, but a philosophical razor created by an Australian mathematician.
Ninja–Russia relations	"Anti-Soviet activity by Ninjutsu Practitioners" would be quite the Jeopardy! category.
Non-idiophonic interruptive instruments	You make music by whirling them about.
Nutellagate	In which Columbia University students stole Nutella at a rapid rate.
Adnan Oktar	A very heavy story of Turkey's strangest cult.
Planet X637Z-43	A planet covered in cannabis! Well, that's what they want you to think.
List of conspiracy theories § Predictive programming	According to conspiracy nuts, all dystopian science fiction are actually proposals for the "global elite"'s "problem-reaction-solution" playbook.
Pretending to be stupid	I'd put it in bold, but I'm too dumb.
Prime Number Shitting Bear	A Javascript web animation showing a cartoon bear producing prime numbers from its anus.
Proposed Canadian annexation of the Turks and Caicos Islands	An idea first floated in 1917.
Proverbs commonly attributed to be Chinese	...although they're probably not.
Slutwave	From the same blog that brought you "chillwave".
The Smurfs and communism	Blue goes red.
Snake bite chicken	Any venom with your chicken, sir?
William Stirrat	A man who claimed to have written "Unchained Melody" under the pen name Hy Zaret, despite the fact Zaret was an actual person who did write the song.
Suicide booth	A common feature in the world of tomorrow.
Tim Tam Slam	An Australian method for drinking tea through Tim Tam biscuits.
Tokyo Ghetto Pussy	To this day I still wonder to this article.
Lyulph Ydwallo Odin Nestor Egbert Lyonel Toedmag Hugh Erchenwyne Saxon Esa Cromwell Orma Nevill Dysart Tollemache	His initials spelled "LYONEL THE SECONDTh".
Tooth Fairy Rule	An important science fiction rule of thumb.
True facts about Wikipe-tan	A humorous page about the cutest Wikipedia mascot.
Tubby the Dog	The only casualty of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse.
Tuffet	What did Little Miss Muffet sit on?
Unusual duels	Very well, balloons (or billiard balls, or sausages) at dawn!
Unusual eBay listings	People sell weird stuff online...
War of the Roses	The historical rivalry between Lancaster and York. Not to be confused with Wars of the Roses, the historical rivalry between Lancaster and York.
War Thunder classified documents leaks	Wargamers will stop at nothing to make sure modern weapons are depicted perfectly - not even sharing top-secret military info.
Witch Prohibition Act	Enacted in 1999 in Odisha, then named Orissa.
You can't fight the Homestuck!	Regarding the song by Kylee Henke about the popular webcomic Homestuck.
You forgot Poland	When George Bush wanted to make sure every partner in the War on Terror felt special.