Dirk L'Orange is Writing...

PoS and I also discussed some of the uselessness of a LOT of the articles on Wikipedia, as we discussed how I had put a reference to the Wikipedia article on "Pencil" in my Master's Degree earning report, and wondering who would waste the time and effort to put such a thing together....

And we thought that perhaps some form of competition was in order to see who could find the most useless Wikipedia entry. Right now the definition of such is pretty objective, so we'll need to get some rules down, but here's the intial "feel"...

1. The article should be about something innocuous - it shouldn't be a minor component of a major historical, industrial, etc, event or item, such that if you think about it actually turns out to be important. It needs to stand on its own. Note: This doesn't exclude trivia that has no significance - finding an article about Napoleon's love of turkey sandwiches MAY be eligible...but only if it didn't lead to some sort of military strategy put into use, or some other historical timeline.

2. The article about such an item should be written in a way that it doesn't really leave you any more educated or informed after reading it as you were before.

3. It should be something you don't care about, never have cared about, or never would have considered caring about.

4. It should be something so that if somebody asked you about it 10 minutes after having read it, you would look at the person as if they were crazy.

5. Native language/name doesn't matter, but the entry has to be in English.

Here's my first offering:

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