User:Slakr/Only on Wikipedia
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Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with lots of articles that you won't find in other encyclopedias. I wanted to make my own list of gems that I came across while doing my various admin-y things. Keep in mind, these articles meet our notability guidelines for inclusion, so it's not just a bunch of things that some dude made one day, but things where significant secondary sources have documented the importance of the subject.
Otherwise-censored
[edit]"Fine, upstanding encyclopedias" like Britannica tend to omit these, and in doing so, they actually do a great disservice to their readers, because there's historic and encyclopedic content surrounding them. This is the exact reason why Wikipedia does not censor things "for the children"—especially when it means that adults lose out.
- Bullshit — includes etymology of the word, its relationship to broadcast law (including how the FCC officially allowed it to be used in a commercial in the 80s), and, believe it or not, a poem by T. S. Eliot—all sourced. The article doesn't exist on Britannica.