Deleted Wikipedia articles

Despite Wikipedia's faults I like the site. I know it's no Encyclopedia Britannica, but it's not designed to be. Its draw is that it has articles about things of little significance and also has no space limitations. It's a giant corkboard with a search feature.

I enjoy browsing Wikipedia. I like clicking on hyperlinks and article after article. As I learn about Dracula, for instance, I might get interested in reading about Vlad the Impaler, which might lead me to learning about the Ottoman Empire, and so on. Knowledge is endless, and encyclopedias show us that.

The other day I came across a Wikipedia page that caught my eye. It's a list of strange articles discovered and deleted by Wikipedia's team of editors. I've cut it down to some of my favorites. Enjoy! (Warning: A couple of articles are racy or un-p.c.)

1) Attack of the fifty foot Hitler
2) Ben Harrison: There was a problem with your search. This is probably temporary; try again in a few moments, or you can search Wikipedia through an external search service:
(yes, that was the article's title.)
3) Birth defects considered snazzy by the FDA
4) Chucking loads of elephant poo at people
5) Ceiling cat
6) Emily's Famous Nacho Recipe
7) Famous watermelons
8) I just poured HOT GRITS down my pants
9) Jesus built the Pyramids
10) List of bands beginning with the word "lemon"
11) List of people who are alive or are dead
12) List of people who died with tortoises on their heads
13) List of those who are "far left" according to Bill O'Reilly
14) List of words that rhyme with Oompa Loompa
15) Manly ways to eat fruit
16) MASSIVE TRAFFIC CONE SHAPED ALIENS FROM OUTER SPACE
17) Monkey wedding
18) Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (this redirected to the Darth Vader page)
19) Putting Salt on a Snail
20) Sometimes the donuts move
21) Some Pretty Good Friends of Mollie
22) The Dog Dies at the End
23) Which Backstreet Boy is Gay
24) Why I Want to Be King of Australia
25) Yak Combing
26) Getting pushed into bananas (Mario Kart)
27) General Pissidness Factor (GPF)
28) GoatSurfing
29) Bush is a jew
30) 22.86 Centimetre Nails
31) Awesome Fest
32) Aqua-hoochie
33) Apeism : Ape worship and the history of Apeism
34) Ballad of Saddam Hussein

That's all. I think there should be an Awesome Fest...