Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles

Strange titles are rarely added to Wikipedia under the guise of real encyclopedia articles. Occasionally, Wikipedians lose their minds (especially on April Fool's Day) and if their posts are good (or strange) enough they wind up here. Silliness can come in the form of creativity, insanity, or just boredom. As with other "silly things", often it seems a shame to delete the best of this humor which has been submitted to us.

Unlike bad jokes and other deleted nonsense, however, some of these article names were made for good reasons, on real topics that the writers thought might be useful for Wikipedia. That doesn't always mean that – out of context – the title will be any the less ridiculous-sounding.

If you find an article with a strange title up for deletion at WP:AFD, consider this page. If you do add it to the list, simply put it in its correct alphabetical place. Please don't link it – it'll only encourage them.

As to this page's title, consider it a mild addition to the collection of "freaky" titles – the real reason for it was just so that it abbreviates to DAFT. Bewildering titles, bizarre titles, and surreal titles – all are equally fair game.


Notes for adding titles to this page

  1. A small note of explanation is OK, but please do not sign it – this isn't a talk page.
  2. This is for articles or redirects that really existed on Wikipedia which have been deleted – provide proof of the deletion if you can, generally in the form of an XFD discussion page (AFD debates can be quite humorous themselves) or deletion log entry (for articles deleted before December 2004; see also the Wikipedia:Deletion log).
    • If a title, or a slight modification of it, has been recreated either as an article or redirect, it should be removed from this list.
  3. Don't stuff beans up your nose. Do not wikilink article titles.
  4. Don't glorify vandalism. If an article title was clearly and unquestionably the work of a vandal, or was speedy deleted as a G3, G5, or G10, it's better off forgotten.
  5. Don't notify police on the crimes you commit. In other words, making something that would be included in DAFT, then getting it deleted, then reporting it here, is hands-down idiotic. We're assuming an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters are out there making article names with the hopes that, if one of them is DAFT enough, a user will find it and put it here. Let the chips fall where they may; don't dump them on the floor.
  6. Be careful of what you add. Sometimes Wikipedia's auto filter claims that an edit, whether a blurb or addition of an article, qualifies as vandalism or spam. If this happens, do not try to resend in the edit. File a report if you wish and move on.

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  • How can I build a Wiki of my own
    Sites like Fandom (or better yet, Miraheze) exist for that exact purpose.
  • How can I eat raw scorpions without getting stung
  • How Can I Tell If I'm Really In Love?
  • How can I write an article in wikipedia
  • HOW CONSTITUTE A COMPANY IN HONDURAS?
    Was a redirect to List of companies of Honduras.
  • How did early humans make canones?
    The title was about canoes, not cannons.
  • How does a airplane fly
  • How does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD?
    Apparently some Russian internet meme, which was also asked to some politicians there.
  • How do i stop my son from looking at picachu porn
    Relevant article: Pokémon and pornography
  • How do you dóóóóó?
    The legitimate article is most likely at Greeting.
  • How is ben stein influential america
    The legitimate article (more or less) is at Ben Stein.
  • How many fat people are there on the world
  • How many SCIgen papers in Computer Science?
  • How many spaces after a period
    One.
  • How old are cars?
  • How Star Wars Changed the World
    The legitimate article is at Cultural impact of Star Wars.
  • How tall was Albert Einstein
  • How the prequels should have went
    An apparent reference to the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
  • How to be anorexic
  • How to become a lawyer that screams "Objection!" every time someone says something that is damaging to your case
    Was a redirect to Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, and refers to the iconic speech bubble used throughout the entire Ace Attorney franchise.
  • How to be gangster
  • How to Breed Siamese Fighting Fish
  • How to Catch a Wild Asparagus-Snatching Snagglysnort
    Believe it or not, there is an actual 1996 educational computer game of the same name, and it is one of several that were made by the company DiAmar Interactive.
  • HOW TO CREATE A WILKIPEDIA ATREICLE
    You just did.
  • How to create history of me in wikipedia
    Don't create an article about yourself.
  • How to create wikipedia
    Please don't tell Jimmy Wales how to do his job when clearly you can't compare.
  • How to deal with the unpinned knight!
  • How to draw a horse
  • How to eat a coconut
  • How to Eat a Scorpion While it is Mating
  • How to fly a donkey
  • How to gain balls and be able to not freeze when the only open spot on the bus is next to a really really cute asian guy
    Redirect to Nike, Inc.
  • How to get high
  • How to Have Sex in Texas
    You know what they say... 'everything's bigger in Texas!'
  • How To Increase Conversion Rate On pinterest (conversion Rate Optimization)
  • How to keep an idiot busy for hours
  • How to make weird icons with your keyboard
    The legitimate articles can be found in Category:Unicode blocks.
  • HOW TO REPAIR A DEAD PHONE?
  • How to sacrifice an ant
  • How to stop a hurricane
  • How to survive the zombie apocalypse
  • How to tell if your child is a hacker
  • How to trick people into thinking you're a wizard
  • How would you go about planning infrastructure to accomodate the growing Nigeria Population and wildlife?

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  • List of aliens hidden in South Park
  • List of all Wikipedia lists that do not contain themselves
    Was later recreated as a redirect to Russell's paradox, now gone again.
  • List of all lists that do not contain themselves
  • List of all lists that do not list themselves
  • List of all lists which do not include themselves
    All three were also redirects to Russell's paradox.
  • List of all two-letter combinations
  • List of animated science-fiction/fantasy movies that failed to attract an audience
    This would inherently be in violation of WP:NOTE. In addition, the delete page mentions that most films mentioned did, in fact, attract an audience.
  • List of animation errors in the 2016 animated film "Norm of the North", which stars a talking polar bear who enjoys twerking. However, he soon learns there are plans to ruin his arctic home by building houses there. He goes to the city to stop this plan.
    Not actually a list, but a redirect to Norm of the North.
  • List of antichrists
  • List of awesome dinosaurs
  • List of bands whose members are all deceased
    Would have probably eventually become a list of every band on Wikipedia if it had been kept.
  • List of bands beginning with the word "lemon"
  • List of bands with unquestioned lead vocalists
  • List of Benches In The Leys School Chapel
    ...very significant article
  • List of birds on stamps of Bophuthatswana
  • List of birds on Wikipedia
  • List of caves on Dagobah that are strong with the dark side of the force
  • List of celebrities by number of divorces
  • List of celebrities who have been parodied on The Simpsons
  • List of characters in The Simpsons by MBTI type
  • List of chess openings named after animals
    Well, I'll be a Monkey's Bum.
  • List of countries by pornography industry revenue per capita
  • List of Dads Who Make Other Dads Eat Bugs
    The article itself was completely blank, but the talk page just read "my dad".
  • List of dead baby jokes
  • List of deaths by cello
  • List of deaths from accidental tree failures in Australia
  • List of differences between apples and oranges
  • List Of Dictators Who Had Pet Cats
  • List of Disneyworlds in Andorra
    There are no Disneyworld locations in the Principality of Andorra.
  • List of dribbling wizards
  • List of dog names
    Included such brilliant names as Foot, Footfoot and Footfootfoot
  • List of drugs known to cause paranoia
  • List of DVD
    Remember this one for later in the list
  • List european countries and cities in all languages
  • List of every bloody person in the whole damned world
    A redirect to List of people.
  • List of every mayor in the World
    The legitimate article on this topic is at Lists of mayors by country.
  • List of Fake Phineas and Ferb Episodes
    Was a redirect to an article about Phineas and Ferb episodes that are decidedly real.
  • List of famous men who wear briefs
  • List of fictional characters who lack bravery
  • List of fictional characters who wear fingerless gloves
  • List of fictional characters with removable or interchangeable heads
  • List of fictional ungulates in video games
  • List of fictional expletives
    Shazbot!
  • List of films by gory death scene
  • List of foods that are Swiss by name but not culture
  • List of foods that are verbs
  • List of foods that cause unpleasant urine odors
  • List of foods that sweat
  • List of foods which are universally loved in fiction
  • List of football clubs by YouTube subscribers
    A very important sorting method.
  • List of fruits that cannot legally be carried on certain public transport systems
    Contained only one item, durian, a reference to the fruit being banned on Singapore's MRT system.
  • List of Good Chuck Norris jokes
  • List of Hindi Film Stars who have been to Mauritius
  • List of hospital fires in Romania during the COVID-19 pandemic
    Surprisingly contained thirteen entries.
  • List of ideas inspired by food in STEM fields
  • List of instrumental albums recorded with two the same instruments: two clarinets, two cellos, two violins, two pianos, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns …
  • List of items with the phrase and all I got was this lousy T-shirt
  • List of Japanese terms mistaken for gairaigo
  • List of jellyfish who have stung notable people
  • List of known Spacs Debris
  • List of largest cities by the end of each century that did not exist by the beginning of that century
  • List of listcrufty lists
  • List of lists not listed anywhere
  • List of lists that do not contain themselves
  • List of lists that do not list themselves
  • List of lists which do not include themselves
  • List of lists which do not list themselves
    Even more redirects to Russell's paradox.
  • List of lists of lists of lists
    A parody of List of lists of lists. See also List of lists of lists of lists of lists
  • List of locales in Britain where ant species have become locally extinct
  • List of misleading food names
  • List of movie posters with lamps in them
    The list contained one item – Mission: Impossible – with a footnote saying "NB: does not contain lamps."
  • List of music genres that are not subject to high danceability standards
  • List of music videos featuring barefoot females
  • List of nontraditional bagpipe usage
  • List of notable moustaches in art and fiction
  • List of notable people who have been stung by jellyfish
  • List of number greater than or equal to the number of search results they produce on Google
  • List of opened boxes
  • List of people and fictional characters with famous head hair
    Deleted along with "People and Characters Known for their Teeth."
  • List of people driving Tesla Roadster
  • List of people famous for singing badly
    See below: Minecraft Awesome Parodys
  • List of people from other walks of their life who is also are pilots
    See also List of people from other walks of their life who is also are aviators and People from other walks of their life who is also are aviators
  • List of people named bill
    The legitimate article is Bill (given name).
  • List of people shot by sitting U.S. Vice Presidents
    See also Category:People shot by standing Vice Presidents and Category:Vice Presidents who have shot people.
  • List of people who are alive or are dead
  • List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this
  • List of people who died with tortoises on their heads
    Reportedly how Aeschylus died.
  • List of people who have not committed suicide
  • List of people who were who were non adherents of the Dharmic religions to be cremated
  • List of people without names
  • List of Phineas and Ferb Mukburgers
    Mukburgers? Mukbang?
  • List of pitchers who have retired 28 straight batters in a nine-inning MLB game
    Initially a list article consisting of one item, a diatribe about Armando Galarraga's near-perfect game (prior to the article's existence), then turned into a redirect to Armando Galarraga before being deleted at RfD.
  • List of places beginning with Costa
  • List of places described as the end of land or the world
  • List of places known as the capital of the world
  • List of places that have been called an armpit
  • List of political flops
  • List of poorly performing college football coaches
  • List of Quality, Fawcett and Charlton characters who haven't appeared in DC Comics
  • List of R1 DVD
    And
  • List of R1 DVD by pictures
    These articles and the one above (List of DVD) were all deleted on the same day and made by the same person.
  • List of Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Anderson, Andrews, Angelina, Aransas, Archer, Armstrong, Atascosa, Austin, Bailey, Bandera, Bastrop, Baylor, Bee, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Borden, Bosque, Bowie, Brazoria, Brazos and some more Texas counties
    Lists the first 21 counties of Texas alphabetically before being mercifully cut short by the character limit.
  • List of Red Light Cameras in Toronto
  • List of reporting marks Railfans make fun of
  • List of sexy Philippine actresses
  • List of shoes you can't tap dance in
  • List of shootings by dogs in the United States
    It's more common than you think!
  • List of sitcoms which feature actors holding the Nintendo 64 controller wrong
    This wasn't actually a list, but a comment on how Wikipedia doesn't have a page on this subject.
  • List of socially unusual fictional planets
  • List of South Park sex positions
  • List of software projects whose name is a term offensive to many people with disabilities
    Quite possibly GIMP.
  • List of song titles phrased as questions
  • List of songs about being on fire
  • List of songs about bipolar disorder
  • List of songs about body parts
  • List of songs about drowning hobos who turn into ghosts
  • List of songs about fetal expulsion
  • List of songs about flatulence
  • List of songs about masturbation
    Nominated for deletion five times.
  • List of songs containing the name of a ship, aircraft or spacecraft
  • List of songs featuring cowbells
    Has been nominated for deletion thrice. Someone evidently had a fever...
  • List of songs that contain the laughter of children
    Just...no.
  • List of songs that debuted at number ninety-five on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2020
    Approximately 14.
  • List of songs with fruit in the title
  • List of songs with titles of twenty or more words
    See also: List of songs whose title appears more than twenty times in the lyrics
  • List of terms using the words "latent" or "latency"
  • List of things I made up in school one day
    A reference to the policy Wikipedia is not for things made up one day.
  • List of things sharing names with Finnish presidents
  • List of things the cat dragged in
    Look what else the cat dragged in: WP:SPEEDY
  • List of tolls that belong to mustafa
  • List of US governors with facial hair
  • List of U.S. place names not connected to Sweden
  • List of vehicles of the Israeli ground tech tree in War Thunder
  • List of video game franchises with baseball bats
  • List of women with very long hair
  • List of wikis about St. Louis, Missouri
  • List of Wine Container
  • List of word puns where one or more of the included words is used in whole
  • List of words for numbers that have as many letters as the numbers they mean
    Four?
  • List of words that rhyme with Oompa Loompa
    Refers to the dwarf human race prominently featured in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Content was "{{empty}}These words rhyme with Oompa Loompa. * Boompa Foompa * Loompa Soompa * Goonka Foonka". All of them seem to have been randomly made up, and the last one does not in fact rhyme with Oompa Loompa.
  • List of works featuring a main character named Bob
  • List of world leaders whose name are anagrams of their domains

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  • The 101 rules of black metal
    The first two are to not talk about black metal.
  • The Abandoned Boat
  • The Andrew Olsen University of Prostitution & Finance
  • The Anti Cursing Foundation
  • The Arrogant Bastard Collective
  • The atomic cannibal breakfast
  • The beach that makes you old
    A reference to the movie Old.
  • The beard theorum
  • The beatings will continue until morale improves
    Was a redirect to Morale.
  • The bizarre
    A collection of short stories involving chicken and a sausage. It lived up to its name.
  • The boner essay
  • The book where fred weasley dies
    Was a redirect to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • The "Boss Level" in Ancient Literature
  • The bulletproof bomb
  • The care bears are coming
  • The ceiling is the roof
  • The Cheese Profiler
  • The Cheese Song
  • The Church of Google
  • The country that never came under rule of other country
    Was a redirect to Nepal, which has never been colonized.
  • The Cowtown Computer Congress
  • The cute little Aurora Beamer
    Was a redirect to Seel, but should have been a redirect to Alolan Vulpix.
  • The Damsaiel Denner
  • The Devastating Chance of St. Emogothica
  • The Diarrhea Song
  • The difference between yellow-green and green-yellow
  • The Divine Order of the Fruit of the Loins of the Earth
  • The Drenched In Sound Ghost
  • The dumbness of the EU cookie consent law
  • The Effects of Eyesight while consuming Bacon
  • The egg's sunset in the upside down ramp
  • THE EGOTISM OF FRANKENSTEIN
  • The Elite Butt-O-Matic Syncopators from Planet Homo
  • The emoticons of avatars
  • The Esarni End
    Purportedly the title of a then-unreleased Lemony Snicket book
  • The Evil Rabid Jigglypuff of Doom
  • The Fatty Mocha
  • The Fax Machine Monster of Basildon
  • The fire in Oakland, California
  • The first woman who an army commander's wife became an executive of the National League for Democracy
  • The First World Wide Web War
  • The fundamental law of circlejerk
  • The Giraffe That Taught Me How To Laugh
  • The Golden Age of Bridges
  • The Great American Sweatout
  • The Great Cube Debate
  • The Great Dementia riddled Turtle War of 1920
  • The great toolset disappointment of '06
  • The greatest goalkeepers ever
  • The Incredible Popeman
  • The Illuminatiary Electric Riot Society Of New York
  • The J Man
    Was a redirect to Jesus.
  • The Jelly Moustache
  • The Jezor
  • The life that is very good
  • The Light Formerly Known as Blinking
    As its nomination puts it, Traffic lights are not notable!
  • The long footed potato
  • The Mad Pooper
    Refers to an unidentified woman who defecated on people's lawns in Colorado Springs during the summer of 2017.
  • The Main Street Hot Dog Lady
  • The Meat Pie Guy
  • The McDonaldization of OSH
    If it's an academic concept, why does it sound like a health inspector checked fast food restaurants early morning?
  • The Micro Sandwich Teleportation Equation
  • The Mississauga Blob
  • The Most Ancient and Noble The Order of Purple
  • The Nerd Who Ate St.Louis
  • The Noise Beneath The Apple
  • The number of Kombis contribute to the traffic accidents in Lima (Peru)
  • The Nutty Irishman
  • The one who pushed Leslie into the river
  • The ongoing conflict in syria recently crossed into the border of a nabour cursing an diplomatic crissis.what was the nabours country
  • The Other Side of the Coin
  • The Party Monster
  • The Pink Hurburbler
  • ThePizzaHacker
  • The Power to Destroy
  • The problem of defining sanity
  • The recent unpleasantness with the North
    Was a redirect to American Civil War, which is not recent at all (a little over a century and a half ago). "The Recent Unpleasantness" was one of many contemporary names of the American Civil War used in euphemism in the south.
  • The role of clowns in modern society
  • The Secret Commonwealth of Elves Fauns and Faeries
  • The Sheep Shagger
  • The simpsons funny parts- anyone can contribute!
  • The small, select group of actors who, when not using a voice-over in Japanese-American luxury car commercials, play the unknowing, naive, taken-advantage-of griftees of other more savage, advanced, predatorial entities.
  • The sound of knees
  • The Spoony Experiment
  • The Story of Toys R Us and Build A Bear Workshop
  • The Subjective Mode of Inebriaty
  • The Super Pineapples
  • The the clucking clucking trout trout
  • The Tube of You
  • The Turnip Wars
  • The Unibomber Wears Flip Flops
  • The Vomit Family
  • The whaleshark is only a visitor
  • THE WOMAN THAT PIONEER PROFESSIONAL MODELING IN NIGERIA
  • The word parakeet written exactly 254 times
    Article consisted of the word "Parakeet" written exactly 255 times.
  • The woon doon doon things
  • The Year's Work in Medievalism

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    There are actually two sentences in this category's name.
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    Likely related to WP:DGAF.
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    The result of its deletion debate was "poach in an emulsified butter sauce".
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  • Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/11 and Gulf ERA storms and wars at the levee breach in the lower ninth ward of New Orleans, Louisianna on Desolonde, @0700 on 11nov09
  • Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Colt McCoy football card number 194
    On someone's individual Colt McCoy sports card.
  • Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Entrepreneur Seminar are held by us for introduced the people about this education
    A seminar in English certainly couldn't do any harm either.

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 Freaky titles retrieved from the 28 February – 19 July 2002 deletion log.
  2. ↑ "10 of the weirdest Edinburgh Fringe show names". whatsonstage.com. 2016-08-02. Retrieved 2025-12-28.
  3. ↑ "Baby born with 'parasite' penis on his back". Metro. 2017-12-18. Retrieved 2025-02-19.
  4. ↑ "Baby Born With Second Penis On Back (PHOTO)". HuffPost. 2010-03-11. Retrieved 2025-02-19.
  5. ↑ Wikipedia:Historical archive/Logs/Deletion log/July 2004 (1)
  6. ↑ Kopylova, Lara; Tarabarina, Julia (March 18, 2021). "Hearing the Tune of the Past". archi.ru. Archived from the original on January 21, 2022. Retrieved February 1, 2024.

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