User:John of Reading/Cabinet of curiosities
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Wikipedia is a Cabinet of curiosities, especially after vandals have been at work:
- Lomm is a town in the Netherlands. But while typo-fixing I discovered that it has its own laws of physics
- Strange things happen in County Cork - and this lasted for five months.
- The main Contents pages attract all kinds of edits. This one was more imaginative than most.
- My efforts at removing vandalism are not always appreciated
- Who would have thought that a moth's life was so complicated?
- Apparently I am doomed to haunt one nursery rhyme's article
Odd things turn up even without deliberate vandalism:
- When the unlicensed file Shiva.jpg was deleted from the English Wikipedia, a couple of articles automatically switched to the Shiva.jpg on Commons. The result was unexpected
- Can anyone explain the religious significance of Talk:Unicycle Football League?
- Mrs. Malaprop is alive and well and busy at Wikipedia.
- Exactly who is "INVESTIGATEop Jones"? April 2013, June 2014
The example alt text and captions from the Picture tutorial should not be copied to articles:
![A cartoon centipede reads books and types on a laptop.](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Staphylococcus_aureus_01.jpg/200px-Staphylococcus_aureus_01.jpg)
From Louise Fawcett
![A Photograph taken circa 1926 Polytechnic of Central London.](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/57/Louise_Fawcett.jpg/135px-Louise_Fawcett.jpg)
From Phirangipuram
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From Techno India College of Technology
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