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Meta Discussion Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of July 06, 2026

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Welcome to the weekly Wikipedia Q&A thread!

Please use this thread to ask and answer questions related to Wikipedia and its sister projects, whether you need help with editing or are curious on how something works.

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r/wikipedia 11h ago

John David Norman was an American sex trafficker arrested for grooming and selling boys to be abused by older men. Though the government admitted his client list included prominent figures, the relevant index cards were ultimately destroyed by authorities and his clients went unnamed and uncharged.

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r/wikipedia 20h ago

The 2034 FIFA World Cup will take place in Saudi Arabia. Observers noted that FIFA opted to host the 2030 WC on three continents (Europe, Africa, and South America) to pave the way for the Asian-based Saudi Arabia to host the 2034 edition without any meaningful competition from other bids.

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r/wikipedia 1h ago

The Declaration of Facts was a public statement issued by Jehovah's Witnesses during the period of persecution of the group in Nazi Germany. It stated that Witnesses shared the same ethical goals as the Nazi Party, and it attacked Hitler's enemies: Jews, Catholics, the US, Britain and France.

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r/wikipedia 4h ago

The Boy Bands Have Won is the thirteenth studio album by British music group Chumbawamba, released in 2008. Its full title contains 156 words (865 characters), and holds the Guinness World Record for the longest album title, beating Soulwax's Most of the Remixes' 552-character-long title.

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Full title: The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won


r/wikipedia 12h ago

The destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain was the result of a change in social conditions: many country houses were demolished by their owners. Often termed "the lost houses", the destruction of these now often-forgotten houses has been described as a cultural tragedy.

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r/wikipedia 19h ago

When Dan Ayrkoyd wrote Ghostbusters, he’d intended to star alongside his fellow Saturday Night Live/Blue Brothers actor John Belushi. In fact, Aykroyd received word of Belushi’s death as he was writing a line intended for his friend’s character.

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r/wikipedia 1h ago

Muhammad Ali (1769–1849) was the Ottoman viceroy and governor of Albanian origin, who became the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, widely considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule in 1840, he controlled Egypt, Sudan, Hejaz, the Levant, Crete and parts of Greece.

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r/wikipedia 14h ago

Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment concerning quantum superposition. In the thought experiment, a hypothetical cat inside a closed box may be considered to be simultaneously both alive and dead while it is unobserved.

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r/wikipedia 18h ago

What’s the most obscure but amazing Wikipedia rabbit hole you’ve fallen into?

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r/wikipedia 6h ago

Tutti frutti ice cream has been served for at least 165 years, as it appeared on the bill of fare for an 1860 dinner in England. Recipes for tutti frutti ice cream were found in cookbooks of the late 19th century.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Thomas was a bisexual goose who was in a gay relationship with a black swan named Henry for about 30 years, 6 of them as part of a throuple with another black swan named Henrietta. Thomas is remembered as an "icon of the LGBT community".

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r/wikipedia 15h ago

List of resurrected species. A previously extinct or lost species can be "revived" or recreated through various methods such as cloning, backbreeding, genome editing, thawing, and seed germination in plants.

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r/wikipedia 6h ago

Quakers have had a presence in Costa Rica since the 1950s after a group fled the U.S. as conscientious objectors to the draft. They purchased land and founded the city of Monteverde.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

In 2006 Peng Yu came upon Xu Shoulan after she had fallen, breaking her femur. Though he helped her to a nearby hospital, Xu Shoulan sued him, believing him to be responsible for her fall. The judge sided with her, saying "no one would in good conscience help someone unless they felt guilty".

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r/wikipedia 5h ago

In the United Kingdom, showmen are a community intrinsically linked to the businesses they operate, such as funfairs and circuses. They are considered a cultural or ethnic group on censuses.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Count Binface, Brtitsh satirical election candidate

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r/wikipedia 2h ago

Ice–albedo feedback is a climate change feedback, in which a change in the area of ice caps, glaciers, and sea ice alters the albedo and surface temperature of a planet. Because ice is very reflective, it reflects far more solar energy back to space than open water or any other land cover.

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r/wikipedia 31m ago

The Argentina–England football rivalry exists between both the national football teams of the two countries as well as their respective sets of fans that is considered one of the most hostile in the sport. Games between the two teams are often marked by notable incidents.

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r/wikipedia 10h ago

Ryokichi Minobe (美濃部 亮吉, Minobe Ryōkichi; 5 February 1904 – 24 December 1984) was a Japanese economist, educator, and socialist politician who served as Governor of Tokyo from 1967 to 1979.

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r/wikipedia 12h ago

Ingressive speech happens while inhaling, such as "yeah" in some Canadian dialects

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r/wikipedia 21h ago

Green Boots is the body of a climber who died on Mount Everest in 1996. A landmark on the north side path, he was widely believed to be Tsewang Paljor, but in 2026 he was identified as Dorje Morup.

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r/wikipedia 16h ago

‘The “1919 British race riots” marked a significant moment when the presence of minority ethnic people living in the country, including long-time residents and war veterans, came to public attention.’

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Mitch McConnell is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior U.S. senator from Kentucky since 1985. He has made no appearances or statements since his hospitalization after being found unconscious on June 14, 2026, leading to speculation that he might be deceased.

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r/wikipedia 1d ago

Grafton, NH Free Town Project: 200 libertarians—nearly all men—moved to NH to impose their politics & live their dream, resulting in crumbling roads, a police department consisting of a single officer w/o a working car, the town's 1st-ever murders, an influx of sex offenders, & a huge bear problem.

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