Amusing and clever Wikipedia vandalism

glennmagusharvey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_cricket

I wonder how long it will take for the second paragraph to be reverted.  That said, my edit was in fact factual, unlike the vandalism produced by someone else previously.

Super Lazuli

It has not yet been determined whether this insect is a Mormon.

Glenn, you are a good person.

 

 

Bee

My favorite one is still this.

Saturn

For a long time, on the website for my high school, the last sport on the list of sports was Quidditch.

Super Lazuli

^^There are no words for how great that is.

lrdgck

There was a time when my buddies vandalized the entry for a small village they're from. You know, local in-jokes and so on.

glennmagusharvey

Here's a sample of my previous work: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Republican_Party_presidential_primaries,_2012&diff=prev&oldid=484419647

I also do useful little clarifications, such as this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan_Malloy&diff=prev&oldid=487363713

nohaynicklibre

I remember when /v/ found out there's a star called Beta Virginis. It was fun

Myrmidon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namazu_(Japanese_mythology)

 

Listen to the audio reading of the article.

glennmagusharvey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomembrane#Applications

Fuschlatz

Protip: You might want to use the permanent link for that revision. 

GreggyWerewolfHunter

I found that Namazu reading hilarious, especially when he said that the catfish was a nice guy.

glennmagusharvey

I don't actually know whether this is vandalism, but:

There was also a man named Jaren Smith who walked on water and ate raccoon, he was a well known staple in the town of Belmont.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont,_Nevada

lrdgck

My favourite wikipedia vandal was the one who wrote on the entry for pope Lando that he was named after an administrator of Nubes Urbs. It took a couple of months for someone to realize it's Latin for "Cloud City".

glennmagusharvey

So there's a lake in Florida called Lake Tohopekaliga.

It's sometimes called Lake Toho, or occasionally just Toho 2hu:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lake_Tohopekaliga&diff=prev&oldid=515722838
I can't claim credit for making this one, though. But I did enjoy coming up with an edit reason when I reverted it.