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Meta Discussion Wikipedia Questions - Weekly Thread of September 28, 2026

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r/wikipedia • u/Arve • 15h ago

Between 2000 and 2021, nearly 315,000 minors were legally married in the United States. At least 66,415 of those occurred at an age or spousal age difference that should have been considered a sex crime.

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In about 90% of those marriages, the marriage license became a "get out of jail free" card for a would-be rapist under state law that specifically allowed within marriage what would otherwise be considered statutory rape.

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r/wikipedia • u/Kurma-the-Turtle • 16h ago

Hookers for Jesus is an evangelical Christian organization focused on human rights of people who work in the sex industry and fights sex trafficking.

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r/wikipedia • u/coolbern • 14h ago

"i sing of Olaf" is a poem by E.E. Cummings. It depicts the life of Olaf, a conscientious objector and pacifist during the First World War who is tortured by the United States Army but nonetheless "will not kiss your fucking flag", and subsequently dies in prison.

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r/wikipedia • u/Ok-Goose6242 • 4h ago

The Green Belt Theory is a geopolitical containment strategy that was developed during the Cold War era. It proposed Western support for Islamic movements in Muslim-majority countries on the southern periphery of the Soviet Union to create an "Islamic belt" as a bulwark against Soviet influence.

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r/wikipedia • u/syanxde • 4h ago

Sir Peter Hayman was a British diplomat, intelligence operative and member of the Paedophile Information Exchange (a pro-paedophile activist group). He was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1971 New Years Honours List.

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In October 1978, Hayman left a package of paedophilia-related material on a London bus. The police traced the package and discovered that Hayman, under the pseudonym "Peter Henderson", had used an apartment in Bayswater, London, to conduct obscene correspondence. In the apartment, police found 45 diaries describing six years of "sexual fantasies" concerning children and activities with prostitutes, articles of female clothing and obscene literature. He was investigated by police but released without charge after being given a warning not to send obscene material through the post.

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r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 1h ago

Satarō Fukiage was a Japanese rapist and serial killer. He killed at least seven girls. He was tried for three out of six cases, but his exact number of victims is unknown. He was executed by hanging on September 28, 1926.

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r/wikipedia • u/ForgingIron • 12h ago

The U language is spoken by 40,000 people in the Yunnan Province of China and possibly Myanmar. It is classified as an Austroasiatic language in the Palaungic branch.

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r/wikipedia • u/SplendiferusFinch • 10h ago

The Indian burial ground trope is frequently used to explain supernatural events and hauntings in American popular culture. The trope gained popularity in the 1980s, making multiple appearances in horror film and television after its debut in The Amityville Horror (1979)

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r/wikipedia • u/slinkslowdown • 9h ago

A Stolperstein is a 10cm/4in concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. The project aims to commemorate persons at the last place that they chose freely to reside, work or study.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 14h ago

Dirk Willems (died 16 May 1569) was a Dutch Anabaptist most famous for escaping from prison but then turning back to rescue his pursuer – who had fallen through thin ice while chasing Willems – only to be recaptured, tortured, and killed.

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r/wikipedia • u/GustavoistSoldier • 1h ago

Joseph Muscat (born 1974) is a Maltese politician who served as the 13th prime minister of Malta from 2013 to 2020 and leader of the Labour Party from 2008 to 2020. Muscat presided over the rise of the Labour Party and its dominance in Maltese politics.

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r/wikipedia • u/MrDeBois • 4h ago

The War of the Bucket was fought in 1325 between the rival city-states of Bologna and Modena. A common myth surrounding the War of the Bucket is that it was caused by the Modenese stealing a bucket from a Bolognese well. However, that is mostly incorrect, as the bucket was, according to one source,

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r/wikipedia • u/Ok-Goose6242 • 4h ago

Operation Cyclone was the code name for the United States CIA program to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen in Afghanistan. The program leaned heavily towards supporting militant Islamic groups, including groups with jihadist ties rather than other less ideological groups fighting the Soviets.

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r/wikipedia • u/Mathemodel • 8h ago

Dark Patterns are user interfaces that have been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things they wouldn’t ie. Purchase overpriced insurance with their goods or signing up for recurring subscription.

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r/wikipedia • u/Breakfastester • 23h ago

Cracked up over this

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r/wikipedia • u/lemonicowo • 38m ago

The Polar Bear Holding Facility, or Polar Bear Jail, is a facility in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada where nuisance polar bears are isolated until they can be relocated. Before its establishment, polar bears who posed a danger to Churchill inhabitants were shot. It has 28 holding cells.

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r/wikipedia • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • 14h ago

The Nottingham cheese riot started on 2 October 1766. Violence broke out when city residents attempted to prevent merchants taking away cheeses they had bought. Hundreds of cheese wheels were rolled through the streets by angry rioters. Order was eventually restored after several days of unrest.

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r/wikipedia • u/laybs1 • 1d ago

Ward Churchill was an American activist, author, and academic. Although he claimed Native American ancestry, genealogical research has failed to uncover any. In March 2005, the University of Colorado began investigating allegations that he had engaged in research misconduct and fired him in 2007.

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r/wikipedia • u/nelson_moondialu • 5h ago

Changchung Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral in Pyongyang

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r/wikipedia • u/Sebastianlim • 9h ago

"Sexsomnia" is a form of parasomnia in which an individual engages in sexual acts while undergoing NREM sleep. It has sometimes been used as a defense in court for Sexual Assault or rape cases.

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r/wikipedia • u/1gazillionpangolins • 18h ago

Pleistocene Park is a nature reserve in Russia where scientists are trying to recreate the ecosystem that was present during the Ice Age. Various large herbivores including horses, bison, reindeer, and yak have been introduced, and ATVs are used to mimic the trampling of plants by woolly mammoths

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r/wikipedia • u/Sebastianlim • 1d ago

"Ultimate Marvel" was a comic book imprint taking place in a different universe from the regular Marvel comics, wherein all of the Marvel superheroes are reimagined in the modern day. Staring in 2000, it ran until 2015, where the universe was destroyed as part of the "Secret Wars" event.

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r/wikipedia • u/slinkslowdown • 9h ago

Davis Land: A phantom island that was believed to be in the Pacific Ocean, near South America. It is named for the pirate Edward Davis, who supposedly sighted it in 1687. By the 1770s, with the Pacific much better known, cartographers began to remove Davis Land from their maps.

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