Of the over six million articles in the English Wikipedia there are some articles that Wikipedians have identified as being somewhat unusual. These articles are verifiable, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are a bit odd, whimsical, or something one would not expect to find in '' Encyclopædia Britannica''. We should take special care to meet the highest standards of an encyclopedia with these articles lest they make Wikipedia appear '' idiosyncratic''. If you wish to add an article to this list, the article in question should preferably meet one or more of these criteria: * The article is something a reasonable person would not expect to find in a standard encyclopedia. * The subject is a highly unusual combination of concepts, such as cosmic latte, death from laughter, etc. * The subject is a clear anomaly—something that defies common sense, common expectations or common knowledge, such as Bir Tawil, Märket,

Phineas Gage Phineas P. Gage (18231860) was an American railroad construction foreman known for his improbable survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and ...

Snow in Florida It is very rare for snow to fall in the U.S. state of Florida, especially in the central and southern portions of the state. With the exception of the far northern areas of the state, most of the major cities in Florida have never recorded measur ...

, etc. * The subject is well-documented for unexpected notoriety or an unplanned

cult following A cult following refers to a group of fans who are highly dedicated to some person, idea, object, movement, or work, often an artist, in particular a performing artist, or an artwork in some medium. The lattermost is often called a cult classic. ...

at extreme levels, such as Ampelmännchen or All your base are belong to us. * The subject is a notorious

hoax A hoax is a widely publicized falsehood so fashioned as to invite reflexive, unthinking acceptance by the greatest number of people of the most varied social identities and of the highest possible social pretensions to gull its victims into pu ...

, such as the

Sokal affair The Sokal affair, also called the Sokal hoax, was a demonstrative scholarly publishing sting, scholarly hoax performed by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College London. In 1996, Sokal submitted an article t ...

Mary Toft Mary Toft (née Denyer; c. 1701–1763), also spelled Tofts, was an English woman from Godalming, Surrey, who in 1726 became the subject of considerable controversy when she tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits. ...

. * The subject might be found amusing, though serious. * The subject is distinct amongst other similar ones. * The article is a list or collection of articles or subjects meeting the criteria above. This definition is not precise or absolute; some articles could still be considered unusual even if they do not fit these guidelines. Each entry on this list should be an article on its own (not merely a section in a less unusual article) and of decent quality, and in large meeting Wikipedia's manual of style. For unusual contributions that are of greater levity, see Wikipedia:Silly Things. In this list, a star () indicates a featured article. A plus () indicates a good article. __TOC__

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Wikipedia:Featured pictures contains some unusual images. Image:2007 swifts creek lawnmower races04 edit.jpg,

Lawn mower racing Lawnmower racing is a form of motorsport in which competitors race modified lawnmowers, usually of the ride-on or self-propelled variety. The original mower engines are retained, but blades are removed for safety. The sport attracts all ages, an ...

Image:Train wreck at Montparnasse 1895.jpg, Train wreck at Montparnasse Image:Agassiz statue Mwc00715.jpg, The Agassiz statue,

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, California. April 1906 Image:Stowe_Armorial.jpg, Grenville Diptych Image:Peter Treveris - engraving of Trepanation for Handywarke of surgeri 1525.png, Medieval trepanation Image:Polydactyly 01 Lhand AP.jpg, Polydactyly Image:IsometricFlaw 2.svg,

Isometric projection Isometric projection is a method for visually representing three-dimensional objects in two dimensions in technical and engineering drawings. It is an axonometric projection in which the three coordinate axes appear equally foreshortened and ...

flaw Image:Tacoma Narrows Bridge destruction.ogv, Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Image:DefecatingSeagull.jpg, Defecating

seagull Gulls, or colloquially seagulls, are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari. They are most closely related to the terns and skimmers and only distantly related to auks, and even more distantly to waders. Until the 21st century, m ...

File:Indecency2.jpg, Indecency File:Aerial house3.jpg, Aerial turning house Image:B-36 tracked gear edit.jpg, Tank treads on an airplane File:Salvador Dali A (Dali Atomicus) 09633u.jpg, Salvador Dalí File:Mount Rushmore2.jpg, Maintenance of Mount Rushmore File:1Mcolors.png, One million colors File:Rice & Barton's Big Gaiety Spectacular Extravaganza Co. - Gaiety Dancers.png, Keep your hands to yourself! File:Ch.megacephala wiki.jpg, Like a fly on... File:Orlando-Ferguson-flat-earth-map edit.jpg, An elaborate flat Earth map drawn in 1893 File:Vegetable lamb (Lee, 1887).jpg, Vegetable Lamb of Tartary File:Carrots of many colors.jpg,

Carrot The carrot ('' Daucus carota'' subsp. ''sativus'') is a root vegetable, typically orange in color, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist, all of which are domesticated forms of the wild carrot, ''Daucus carota'', nat ...

s of many colors File:Hadji Ali demonstrating controlled regurgitation Crisco edit.jpg, Professional regurgitator Hadji Ali at work

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The Nethernet The Nethernet (previously known as PMOG, the Passively Multiplayer Online Game) was an online game in which players "passively" participated in while browsing web pages. Players earn data points by taking missions, which they can spend on various ...

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