Wikipedia:Silly Things

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[edit] Introduction

It is no great secret that Wikipedia, over its years, has had its colorful moments of fun and also some suffering from vandalism; some of this fun and/or vandalism being creative and entertaining and some of it simply annoying. And for many of those years, the vandalism and fun striking people's fancy were kept on a page called "Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense", or "BJAODN". In fact, it was one of the oldest pages on Wikipedia. It existed before the transition to phase II software. Here is the original explanation:

We need a page where bad jokes and other deleted nonsense can rest in peace. So, here it is! [I'm half tempted to suggest keeping the jokes inline with the pages, as they must sort of give the encyclopedia some lively color. But I do know it'd just get carried away and turn into an encyclopedia of silliness, so look forward to frequent updates of this page.  ;-)

– BryceHarrington

However, over time, consensus shifted against BJAODN being on Wikipedia (see Wikipedia talk:Silly Things), and it came to be viewed by many as encouraging vandalism. Things are no longer added to this group of pages on Wikipedia itself, and only a few highlights are maintained below.

[edit] Deletion discussions

To understand how the majority of the content here came to be deleted and moved off Wikipedia, please study the following discussions.

[edit] Main BJAODN page

[edit] Subpages

[edit] Historical content

[edit] Best of

[edit] Hoax articles

[edit] The longest-standing hoax?

Article Dušan Jocić was created in August 2005, as a fairly obvious thing made up in school one day. During the course of time, several wikipedians in good standing improved the article, so the end result looked far more plausible, while suspicion of hoax by an anonymous editor was quickly reverted as vandalism. It finally got deleted in July 2007.

Made-up content at Illyrian gods (now Paleo-Balkanic mythology) stood unchallenged and was embellished upon from October 2005 to February 2008.

The monarch was Canada's national insect from December 9 2004 to March 26 2008... But only in wikireality.

[edit] The Upper Peninsula War

This page was created by a single user, tjproechel, and was active for a little more than two weeks. The article had maps, portraits, photos, even references and footnotes! Its fictional nature was only discovered when no google search results were found for the Upper Peninsula War.

[edit] San Serriffe

The early version of this page was a pure hoax, albeit one inspired by an original from outside Wikipedia.

[edit] Other subpages

[edit] Other funny stuff

[edit] External links