Of the over six million articles in the English Wikipedia there are some articles that Wikipedians have identified as being somewhat unusual. 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:. 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. See Nominative determinism for the idea that people gravitate toward careers that fit their names, e. Contents move to sidebar hide. Project page Talk. Read View source View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. Odd and unusual articles on Wikipedia.
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Places and infrastructure. For places with unusual names only, see Wikipedia:Unusual place names. Latin America and the Caribbean. North America. Early modern. Mathematics and numbers. Dates and timekeeping. Specific languages, dialects, and pidgins. Unusual names.
