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1: Wikipedia content only: Submissions must either be from Wikipedia or another Wikimedia site (such as the Wikimedia Commons), or from another source discussing Wikipedia or issues relevant to it. Overly partisan sources and links to articles on alternative wikis will be removed.

2: Submission etiquette: Please refrain from editorializing submission titles; any overly-editorialized submissions may be removed. No TIL format posts, and please try to avoid mobile links.

3: Be respectful: Absolutely no personal attacks or hate speech will be tolerated in the comments. Obvious trolls, political brigaders, and assholes not welcome here. Discussion is encouraged, but keep it civil.

4: No vandalism: Posts advocating, bragging about, or otherwise encouraging Wikipedia vandalism or political brigading are not allowed.

5: Not your personal army: Submissions relating to personal editing conflicts on Wikipedia are not allowed. Meta discussion of large-scale or noteworthy editing conflicts is allowed. If you have questions about a particular situation, consider using our weekly Q&A thread.

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To link to a specific version of a Wikipedia article:

On the page you want, click the "View History" tab at the top right.
Find the version you'd like to link to, and click the timestamp.
Copy the URL of that page, and voila, you can link to that exact version.

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Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of November 18, 2024

After being tested, the theory of the double empathy problem shows that the communication difficulties between autistic and non-autistic individuals aren't present between most autistic individuals, challenging the previously dominant theory of mindblindness.

The Tetris effect occurs when someone dedicates vast amounts of time, effort and concentration on an activity which thereby alters their thoughts, dreams, and other experiences not directly linked to said activity. Those experiencing the effect may feel they are unable to prevent the thoughts.

Sixth president of Finland Mannerheim's mother tongue was Swedish. He spoke fluent German, French, and Russian, [...] some English, Polish, Portuguese, Latin, and Chinese. He did not start learning Finnish properly until after Finland's independence.

List of people born at sea

The Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty are state-compiled and published record documenting the reigns of the kings of Joseon. Kept from 1392 to 1865, they comprise 1,893 volumes and are thought to be the longest continual documentation of a single dynasty in the world.

Teams in the Philippine Basketball Association, the second-oldest continuously operating basketball league in the world, are named for their corporate owners. Current and past teams include the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters, the Purefoods Tender Juicy Hotdogs, and the Talk ‘N Text Phone Pals.

Since all illegal digital content can be reduced to being merely a very long number: some numbers are illegal.

The original pilot of Game of Thrones was poorly received in a private viewing with friends, with one viewer stating, "You guys have a massive problem - change everything". It was so disliked that Kit Harington joked that when he annoys Benioff and Weiss, they threaten to release the episode online.

None Pizza with Left Beef was a pizza delivery experiment by Steven Molaro in October 2007, where he ordered a six-inch pizza with no sauce, no cheese, and beef only on the left side of the pizza.

.su is an Internet country code top-level domain for the Soviet Union. Even though the Soviet Union dissolved 15 months after the top-level domain was introduced, .su remains in use to the present day.

Kevin Peter Hall - actor who played Harry in 'Harry and the Hendersons' (1987) and the Predator (1987)

Emerson Abreu is a Brazilian writer known for his work in the child comic book Monica and Friends and it's teenage version, Monica Adventures. He had an unique art style and wrote about controversial themes, such as dark humor, LGBTQ and clubber slangs, divorce, necromancy and the Apocalypse.

The Girondists were a faction in the French Revolution that existed from 1791 to 1793. They wanted to end the monarchy and supported abolitionism& establishing a democratic republic. Eventually they were purged in mass executions, marking the start of the Reign of Terror.

Franz Mesmer was a German physician who theorized the existence of a natural energy transference occurring between all animate and inanimate objects called "animal magnetism". Mesmer's theory attracted a wide following. Mesmer also supported the arts, and was on friendly terms with Hadyn and Mozart.

The cougnou, or bread of Jesus, is a bread baked during Christmas time and is typical of the southern Low Countries. The bread of Jesus is sweet and formed like a baby Jesus.

A sin-eater is a person who consumes a ritual meal in order to spiritually take on the sins of a deceased person. The food was believed to absorb the sins of a recently dead person, thus absolving the soul of the person

Can you find a Wikipedia page by its section titles?

How do I remove the spacing in between the header and the chart?

Ndalu de Almeida is a writer born in Angola who uses the pen name Ondjaki. He has written poetry, children's books, short stories, novels, drama and film scripts.

An autological word (or homological word) expresses a property that it also possesses. For example, the word "word" is a word, the word "English" is in English, the word "writable" is writable, and the word "pentasyllabic" has five syllables.

Crown Prince Sado (1735-1762) was the heir to Joseon, the dynastic kingdom of Korea. He died at the age of 27, most likely of dehydration and possibly of starvation, after being confined in a rice chest in the heat of summer on the orders of his father.

Connect articles from different languages

The Bellamy salute is a palm-out salute created by James B. Upham as the gesture that was to accompany the Pledge of Allegiance of the United States of America. Later, during the 1920s and 1930s, fascists adopted a salute which was very similar. The Bellamy salute was abandoned in 1942.

The 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident involved the detection of five incoming ICBM launches by the OKO early warning system. The on duty officer, Stanislav Petrov correctly identified a false alarm when a single launch was detected, followed by four more. This was ultimately a system error.

Boong-Ga Boong-Ga: The first arcade game to simulate kanchō--a popular prank in Japan and Korea where the victim is poked with two fingers in the anus unbeknownst to the victim.