Wikipedia:Six degrees of Wikipedia

This page contains material that is considered humorous. Such material is not meant to be taken seriously.

Shortcuts WP:6WP:6 WP:SIXWP:SIX WP:SDOWPWP:SDOWP WP:6DWP:6D WP:6DOWWP:6DOW

This Wikipedia page may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: Many broken lists and redlinks. Please help improve this Wikipedia page if you can; the talk page may contain suggestions.

There is a popular hypothesis, known as six degrees of separation, holding that any two people are separated by a chain of no more than six acquaintances. Studying the characters of Wikipedia to see whether something similar obtains among its articles, Six Degrees of Wikipedia aims to be a compendium of the following things:

• The items separated by the longest minimal chains in the encyclopedia (especially where these are more than four links long). The shortest known chain between the two items should be specified. Generalisation over time, where possible, seems to produce the shortest chains. Failing this, try generalisation over space to reduce chain length.^{[clarification needed]}
• The most intuitively remote items separated by short chains—chains of fewer than six articles, anyway. That is, these should be items that have no obvious connection but which, nonetheless, can be linked between very quickly in Wikipedia. This is a much more subjective category, but should still be interesting; it may be enough to describe these as "interestingly" or "oddly" short chains.
• Chains between two articles selected at random (using Special:Randompage). Since these can often be uninteresting, think twice about actually adding these to this page.
• Articles that can be proven to have no chain between one another. This is the search for the potential outlier that could prove the hypothesis at least capable of being in a state of "incorrect". Intuition suggests that there shouldn't be any, but that is in fact why we need to search for it/them.

Rules

We will accept only links between actual articles, not "Talk" pages. (If this approach still allows many uninteresting connections, it might be worth restricting it in further ways, such as disallowing articles on years or decades completely, or any other type of article that might be considered "too general". For now, though, we will not worry about these.)

Be sure to specify the direction the chain runs in by using, for example, the right-arrow character (→), which can be found below the "edit window" when editing pages. If you cannot use the arrow character, you can just use the word "to".

Using date-to-date links (e.g., 1996 → 1993) is "uninteresting" and should be avoided. Similarly, using country-to-country links (e.g., Japan → China) is uninteresting and should be avoided as well.

Tampering with articles for the sole reason of changing their degrees of separation is discouraged for the purposes of this project; we aim to clarify how Wikipedia is as it evolves, not to set forth that it should be more or less so. That being said, if this page brings to your attention a "missing link" that really should be in an article, feel free to correct it (and make the corresponding change to this page, as well).

Other versions

Software engineer Jacob Wenger created a tool of the same name that attempts to procedurally find the shortest number of links between any two English Wikipedia articles the user provides.

Popular score-based versions of this game include The Wiki Game and Wiki Speedrun.

The Wiki Game is a real-time and multi-player version. It contains different game-type challenges that include random start and end goals.

Wiki Speedrun is single-player focused and places additional emphasis on the speed at which the player gets from one article to another. It uses a precise speedrun timer that pauses during page load to make final times as competitive as possible.

Surprisingly short chains

Surprisingly long minimal chains

Surprisingly long reverse path

• Whereas Bog to Toilet is two steps, Toilet to Bog is 4 steps.
  • Toilet → California → River → Bog

• Bar → Foo is only one step. However, Foo → Metasyntactic variable → Hebrew language → Shtetl → Bar is four steps.
  • Bar no longer links directly to Foo. Shortest path: Bar → Bar (computer science) → Foo (two steps).

• Interesting symmetry here:
  • Here → There (1)
  • Here → There → There (internet service) (2)
  • There → Pronoun → Linguistics → Australia → Indian Ocean → Here (5)
  • There (internet service) → Competition → Civilization → Indian Ocean → Here (4)
    • Incidentally, the last link (Indian Ocean → Here) for these two has vanished, but it was amusing.

• Mykhailo Haivoronsky → Biography → United Kingdom → Liverpool F.C. → Liverpool F.C. statistics → David Raven (footballer) is 5 steps, but there is no return path.
  • April 25, 2026, reverse five-degree path: David Raven (footballer) → Association football → Ryszard Kapuściński → Kresy → Zalishchyky → Michael Hayvoronsky

• Abdullah Al-Qasemi → Atheism → Bertrand Russell → Fabian Society → Disambiguation is 4, but the reverse is over 10.
  • Abdullah Al-Qasemi is an orphan, it's only link is from here. Therefore, there is no path. Oren0 19:59, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

• Soyuz TMA-22 → Twitter is 1, but I don't think there is a return path (or a very long one).
  • One path, as of November 2011, is Twitter → United States Department of Justice → United States federal executive departments → United States Department of Defense → United States Department of the Air Force → United States Air Force → Vandenberg Air Force Base → Space Shuttle → Human spaceflight → Soyuz (spacecraft) → Soyuz TMA-22 (10), That is, ignoring the Twitter link in the External links section
    • Soyuz (spacecraft) no longer links directly to Soyuz TMA-22. The shortest path, as of January 2020, is Twitter → International Space Station → Soyuz (spacecraft) → Soyuz (rocket family) → Soyuz TMA → Soyuz TMA-22
  • April 25, 2026, reverse three-degree path: Twitter → Guinness World Records → International Space Station → Soyuz TMA-22

• Wales → Wales (disambiguation) → Jimmy Wales is two steps, while Jimmy Wales → English Wikipedia → English Language → United Kingdom → Wales is four steps.

• Easy → Simple, but Simple → Simple Kid → Alternative rock → Californication (album) → Easily → Easy

• Antiferroelectricity → Checkerboard is 1.
  • One path (as of Dec 2017) is Checkerboard → Taxicab → Car → Electric car → Electric motor → Electrical energy → Electric potential energy → Electricity → Antiferroelectricity (9 pages, 8 links) ... probably could be shorter Ev3commander (talk) 23:15, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
  • April 25, 2026, reverse four-degree path: Checkerboard → American English → Transport → Electricity → Antiferroelectricity

• Perhaps more surprising for the number of possible paths: Artemisia Gallery → The Doomsday Machine (Star Trek: The Original Series) is 4 steps, with 3 possible paths. (One is Artemisia Gallery → Phyllis Bramson → Smithsonian Institution → Star Trek: The Original Series → The Doomsday Machine (Star Trek: The Original Series). The reverse path, however, is 5 steps with 591 possible paths: One example is The Doomsday Machine (Star Trek: The Original Series) → CBS → Low culture → Cultural artifact → Artist-run space → Artemisia Gallery.
  • April 25, 2026, reverse four-degree path: The Doomsday Machine (Star Trek: The Original Series) → Science fiction → Afrofuturism → Artist-run space → Artemisia Gallery

Shortest "unusual" chains

• Numberblocks to Anal sex
  • Numberblocks → 1 → Sumer → Anal sex
  • Numberblocks → Preschool → Sex education → Anal sex
  • Numberblocks → Typographical error → Pornography → Anal sex
  • Numberblocks → Twitter → Twitter suspensions → Anal sex
• ¡! to ¡Uno!
  • ¡! → Juan Carlos I → The Simpsons → The Simpsons Theme → ¡Uno! (there are 18 paths)

• Cold Showers to My Cold Shower
  • Cold Showers → 2005 in film → 2007 in home video → My Cold Shower

• Urban Meyer to Pope Urban II
  • Urban Meyer → University of Notre Dame → Roman Catholic Church → Pope Urban II

• Graffiti to Maritime archeology
  • Graffiti → Roman Empire → Maritime archeology

• Devil Stick to Gunpowder
  • Devil Stick → Silk Road → Gunpowder

• LSD to Shakespeare
  • LSD → Latin → split infinitive → Shakespeare
  • LSD → British → William Shakespeare amounts to the same thing in a shorter chain. Id the Mildly Confused 04:38, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
    • And there are a total of 5 possible paths! Sungodtemple (talk) 18:48, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

• Oboe to veto
  • Oboe → Baroque → Papacy → temporal power → veto

• Immanuel Kant to Ken Kesey
  • Immanuel Kant → reality → schizophrenia → electroconvulsive therapy → Ken Kesey

• Anime to Three Stooges
  • Anime → Moe → Three Stooges
    • Moe is a disambiguation page, and the link has since been changed to bypass it, so the chain is now broken. NeonMerlin 05:09, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
  • New path: Anime → Science fiction → Comedy → Three Stooges

• Anus to Good Morning, Vietnam
  • Anus → Cloaca → Robin Williams → Good Morning, Vietnam
    • dirty lies. no cloaca page links to robin williams 70.90.70.165 19:15, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

• Eeyore to Zeno of Citium
  • Eeyore → Stoicism → Zeno of Citium

• Francis of Assisi to Star Trek
  • Francis of Assisi → Environment → Star Trek

Where is the link to Star Trek on Natural Environment? Avraham 03:01, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

• Podenco Ibicenco to Detroit Tigers
  • Podenco Ibicenco → Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center → Detroit Tigers

• Japanese toilet to Corrosion
  • Japanese toilet → Tokyo → Steel → Corrosion

• Satyr to Wombat
  • Satyr → Bagpipes → Australia → Wombat

• Oregon Coast Aquarium to European Coal and Steel Community
  • Oregon Coast Aquarium → Keiko (Orca) → Norway → European Union → European Coal and Steel Community

• Mao Zedong to Ichiro Suzuki
  • Mao Zedong → October 1 → Ichiro Suzuki

• Locust to Bicycle
  • Locust → 19th Century → Bus → Bicycle

• From a Jack to a King; From Loneliness to a Wedding Ring
  • Jack → Iliad → King; Loneliness → Interpersonal relationship → Marriage → Wedding band (or ring)

• Dick Cheney to Sunflower
  • Dick Cheney → 1964 → Osama bin Laden → Sunflower

(many obvious other chains from this e.g.:) Dick Cheney → George W. Bush → Osama bin Laden → Sunflower

• Pants to Bill Gates
  • Pants → American English → 20th century → Bill Gates

• Penis to Queen Elizabeth II
  • Penis → Circumcision → Canada → Queen Elizabeth II or
  • Penis → Body piercing → 1960s → Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

• Running to Naked
  • Running → Ancient Olympic Games → Naked

• Basketball to Naked
  • Basketball → Gym → Naked

• Under Pressure → World War I
  • Under Pressure → Propel Fitness Water → PepsiCo → Pepsi → World War I --68.75.182.69 23:58, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Under Pressure → Switzerland → World War I amounts to the same thing in a shorter ch --Icweiner 02:45, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

hi ~2026-45428-23 (talk) 19:58, 19 August 2026 (UTC)

• The Neverending Story → Fantasy → Final Fantasy

• Britney Spears → Montreal Screwjob
  • Britney Spears → UPN → World Wrestling Entertainment → Montreal Screwjob --Carn29

• Cyberpunk → Tool
  • Cyberpunk → United states secret service → Tool

• Pikachu → World domination
  • Pikachu → Pokemon game mechanics → World domination

• Hannah Montana → Illinois → McDonald's → Ronald McDonald

• Bill Gates → History of Microsoft → Wii → Nintendo → Pokémon

• Wales → Atlantic Ocean → Marine pollution → Plankton → Whales

• Quantity → Energy → Quantum mechanics
• Quantity → English language → Inflection

• AC/DC → Ancient Egypt
  • AC/DC → Moscow → Golden Horde → Egypt → Ancient Egypt

• Boot to the Head:
  • Boot → Leggings → Home Shopping Network → List of programs broadcast by MTV → The Head

• Kadabra to Simplex

• Kadabra → Pentagram → Simplex

• Ameno (song) → Liberal Democrats (UK)

• Ameno (song) → France → Scientology → Arbitration Committee → Liberal Democrats (UK)

• Ameno (song) → France → United Kingdom → Liberal Democrats (UK)

• SCP Foundation → Political prisoner

• SCP Foundation → IKEA → Political prisoner

• Just...what.

• Ø → Ø (disambiguation) → Ø (Disambiguation)

Chains between two random pages

Charyyapadas to Broadstairs

• Charyyapadas → Assamese language → 1867 → United States → Tourism → Broadstairs

Oatcake to Ukrainian I

• Oatcake → England → English Language → Latin Alphabet → Cyrillic Alphabet → Ukrainian I

The Payolas to Marvin Liebman

• The Payolas → Punk Rock → Roxy Music → Manifesto → Young Americans for Freedom → Marvin Liebman

Kick to The Face

• Kick → Boxing → 1968 → Kylie Minogue → The Face

Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli to Classical theory

• Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli → France → God → Higgs boson → Graviton → Classical theory

Sobhuza II of Swaziland to Binnenalster

• Sobhuza II of Swaziland → April 12 → April 13 → Hamburg → Binnenalster

Vin Mariani to Capital virtues

• Vin Mariani → Wine → Italy → Petrarch → Cardinal virtues → Capital virtues

Baltasar Carlos, Prince of Asturias to Saurodactylus

• Baltasar Carlos, Prince of Asturias → Biography → Hermit → Sex → Gecko → Saurodactylus

Hal Colebatch to Liard River

• Hal Colebatch → Adolf Hitler → September 1 → Rocky Mountains → Liard River

Cyber Team in Akihabara to Mount Carmel Cemetery

• Cyber Team in Akihabara → Manga → United States → Chicago → Al Capone → Mount Carmel Cemetery

Sweet Polly Oliver to Committee of Public Safety

• Sweet Polly Oliver → England → History of the United Kingdom → France → French Revolution → Committee of Public Safety

Velociraptor to Jewish services

• Velociraptor → Tooth → Human → Bible → Judaism → Jewish services
• or... Velociraptor → Jurassic Park → Steven Spielberg → Schindler's List → Shabbat → Jewish services
  • Can be done in 5 Velociraptor → Poland → Jewish → Judaism → Jewish services

Coenzyme Q to Rawlins, Wyoming

• Coenzyme Q → dietary supplement → United States (a very general link that makes it possible to get to any geographic area, thus taking the fun out of 'six degrees') to Wyoming → List of Wyoming counties → Carbon County, Wyoming → Rawlins, Wyoming
  • Can be done in 6 Coenzyme Q → 1958 → Wyoming → List of Wyoming counties → Carbon County, Wyoming → Rawlins, Wyoming

Gerald Posner to Michel Tremblay

• Gerald Posner → Al Gore → Canadian Broadcasting Corporation → Quebec → List of Quebec authors → Michel Tremblay

Solna to Mohammad Abaee-Khorasani

• Solna → Sweden → Iran → List of Iranians → Mohammad Abaee-Khorasani

Pokémon to Boston Molasses Disaster

• Pokémon → North America → United States → Boston → Boston Molasses Disaster

Common Grackle to Ambassador Hotel

• Common Grackle → United States → Vietnam War → Robert F. Kennedy → Ambassador Hotel

Ylistaro to Streptococcus pneumoniae

• Ylistaro → Finland → 20th Century → Infectious disease in the 20th century → Pneumonia → Streptococcus pneumoniae

Julius Caesar to Rafael Cordero (educator)

• Julius Caesar → Roman Empire → Spain → Puerto Rico → List of famous Puerto Ricans (which redirects to List of Puerto Ricans) to Rafael Cordero (educator)

Marsupial to Bridge

• Marsupial → Australia → Sydney → Sydney Harbour Bridge → Bridge

Frank Drake to Ramsey Island

• Frank Drake → List of astronomers → Britain → Wales → Anglesey → List of islands of Wales → Ramsey Island
  • Can be done in 6 Frank Drake → 1961 → 1962 → 1962 in South Africa → Pembrokeshire → Ramsey Island

Proof by verbosity to Rudraige

• Proof by verbosity → Mathematical proof → Natural language → Esperanto → Ireland → Early history of Ireland → List of High Kings of Ireland → Rudraige
  • Slightly shorter: Proof by verbosity → Mathematical proof → Mathematics → Art → Art mac Cuinn → List of High Kings of Ireland → Rudraige

Walter Richard Parker to 85

• Walter Richard Parker → Royal Marines → 1982 → List of state leaders in 1982 → List of state leaders in 1981 → 85

Don Beebe to Haji Ali Dargah

• Don Beebe → December 18 → Niger → Islam → India → Mumbai → Haji Ali Dargah
  • Can be done in 5 Don Beebe → 1996 → 1993 → Bombay (redirects to Mumbai) → Haji Ali Dargah

Shoichi Nakagawa to Tallest buildings in Australia

• Shoichi Nakagawa → 1953 → Prime Minister of Australia → Australia → Melbourne → Tall buildings in Melbourne → Tallest buildings in Australia
  • Can be done in 5 Shoichi Nakagawa → Japan → List of countries → Tallest structures of different countries → Tallest buildings in Australia

Molson Coors to Chemical elements named after places

• Molson Coors → Beer → Starch → Carbohydrate → Carbon → Chemical Element → List of elements by name → Chemical elements named after places

Clarkefreak ∞ 22:25, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

• • Can be done in 6 Molson Coors → 2005 → February 2005 → February 2004 → Chemical element → Chemical elements named after places

Hollycombe Steam Collection to Tithonus

• Hollycombe Steam Collection → Category:Tourist attractions in Hampshire → Broadlands → United Kingdom → Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson → Tithonus

Clarkefreak ∞ 03:39, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Crawford Notch to Ferdinand von Saar

• Crawford Notch → 19th century → 1791 → Franz Grillparzer → List of Austrian writers → Ferdinand von Saar

Visualization (cam) to Defeated nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court

• Visualization (cam) → Meditation → 1972 → Supreme Court of the United States → Defeated nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court

ad nauseum to Coyville, Kansas in six steps:

• ad nauseum → politician → governor → List of United States Governors → Kansas → Wilson County, Kansas (or List of cities in Kansas) to Coyville, Kansas

Back → The Future

• Back → scrum → Canada → Montreal → Leonard Cohen → The Future
  • Also Back → Anatomy → Touch → Leonard Cohen → The Future

Blue Nile Falls → John Norquist

• Blue Nile Falls → Tourist attraction → United States → Wisconsin → Milwaukee, Wisconsin → List of mayors of Milwaukee → John Norquist. my first try :)--Ally525 00:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Venice Commission → Dahntay Jones

• Venice Commission → United States → Memphis International Airport → Memphis, Tennessee → Memphis Grizzlies → Dahntay Jones ---Sluzzelin 11:27, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

• Can be done in 5: Venice Commission → United States → Tennessee → Memphis Grizzlies → Dahntay Jones---Sluzzelin 14:25, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Principality of Capua → Grant Waite

• Principality of Capua → Southern Italy → Italy → Sport in Italy → Italian national football team → Serie A → List of sports attendance figures → FBR Open → Grant Waite---Curlingforever 09:12, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

HMAS Brisbane (D 41) → Medical University of Lublin

• HMAS Brisbane (D 41) → United States → Poland → Lublin → Medical University of Lublin --jh51681 22:59, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Fish → Growth hormone

• Fish → Blood → Hormone → Growth hormone

Ashvin → Antarctica does not have any paths less than 10.

• Ashvin → Indian national calendar → India → Indian Ocean → Antarctica. Oren0 05:56, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
• Alternatively: Ashvin → BitTorrent, Inc. → United States → Military activity in the Antarctic → Antarctica. Sandy of the CSARs (talk) 05:39, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Antarctica → Snow Patrol does not have any paths less than 10.

• There's a path of 1. Antarctica → United Kingdom → Snow Patrol. Oren0 05:58, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Bowling for Dollars → Essex County, Ontario

Bowling for Dollars → WJW → Essex County, Ontario

Caboose (Red vs. Blue) → Heterochromia

• Caboose (Red vs. Blue) → Blue → Blond → Eye color → Heterochromia PamD 07:30, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Foreign relations of Cameroon → Baktykozha Izmukhambetov Foreign relations of Cameroon > United Nations > United Nations member states > Kazakhstan > Nursultan Nazarbayev > Baktykozha Izmukhambetov SalaSkan 01:48, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Qwilfish to University of Indonesia

• Qwilfish → Pufferfish → Tropical zone → University of Indonesia

Rei Ayanami to Crime & Punishment

• Rei Ayanami → Anime → Japan → Russia → Russian literature → Crime & Punishment
  • Also: Rei Ayanami → Neon Genesis Evangelion (live-action movie) → Universal Studios → NBC Universal → NBC → Crime & Punishment; reverse: Crime & Punishment → NBC → NBC Universal → Universal Studios → List of Universal Pictures films → Neon Genesis Evangelion (live-action movie) → Rei Ayanami -- CJ Miller. (^{That's my name.}_{Don't wear it out.}) 03:22, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Maund to Chapare River

• Maund → kilograms → liter → beverages → colas → Coca-Cola → coca → Chapare Province → Chapare River --jh51681 (talk) 12:17, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Northern Qi to P.H.U.Q.

• Northern Qi → Buddhism → Europe → England → Newcastle upon Tyne → The Wildhearts → P.H.U.Q. --jh51681 (talk) 11:51, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

River Deben → Earth Is Room Enough

• River Deben → Suffolk → Russia → Asia → Bible → Isaac Asimov → Earth Is Room Enough --jh51681 (talk) 11:24, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

• Shorter: River Deben → Common Reed → Asia → Bible → Isaac Asimov → Earth Is Room Enough --jh51681 (talk) 11:37, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

William Elfving → Emergency (Philippine TV program)

• William Elfving → County of Santa Clara → U.S. state → State of Georgia → Interstate 285 → emergency → Emergency (disambiguation) → Emergency (Philippine TV program). --jh51681 (talk) 21:09, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Piano Sonata in E-flat major, D. 568 (Schubert) to William Coffey

• Piano Sonata in E-flat major, D. 568 (Schubert) → 1829 → August 12 → Victoria Cross → List of Victoria Cross recipients by name - C → William Coffey

Pikachu → John Madden

• Pikachu → Hey You, Pikachu! → Microphone → Edmund Lowe → Actor → Emmy Awards → Sports Emmy Award → Outstanding Sports Personality, Play-by-Play → Al Michaels → John Madden -- CJ Miller. (^{That's my name.}_{Don't wear it out.}) 03:07, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

• Shorter, more prosaic: Pikachu → Video games → Video game genres → Madden NFL → John Madden. -- Sandy of the CSARs (talk) 05:34, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Counterfeit banknote detection pen → Juryszewo.

• Counterfeit banknote detection pen → Euro → Poland → Gmina → List of Polish gminas → List of Polish gminas/R → Gmina Radzanowo → Juryszewo.
• In the opposite direction: Juryszewo → Poland → Banknote → Counterfeit → Counterfeit banknote detection pen. -- Sandy of the CSARs (talk) 06:01, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Nikki Coghill → Dedicated (Lemar)

• Nikki Coghill → Australia → Continent → Africa→ "major famine in Ethiopia" → Do They Know It's Christmas? → Lemar → Dedicated (Lemar) Sandy of the CSARs (talk) 06:19, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
• Dedicated (Lemar album) → BBC Television → Neighbours → Ramsay Street → Nikki Coghill, with help from . Certes (talk) 00:18, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Goat Cheese → Barack Obama

• Goat cheese
• French Language
• U.S.
• Barack Obama

Elisabeth Parr, Marchioness of Northampton → 4774 Hobetsu

• Elisabeth Parr, Marchioness of Northampton → Category:Daughters of barons → Category:Barons → Ercole Dembowski → 349 Dembowska → Category:Asteroids named for people → Category:Asteroids → Category:Asteroids named for places → 4774 Hobetsu. for this one, i cheated: I used categories (allowed?). i guessed that there may be an asteroid named after a baron. searched for Asteroid + Baron:there was, but his article wasnt categorized as a baron, so i added the category (accurate, but not there originally). so sue me. ok: Elisabeth Parr, Marchioness of Northampton Lady Jane Grey Renaissance humanism Renaissance Astronomy Asteroid List of notable asteroids List of minor planets named after places 4774 Hobetsu cheated again by adding this to the list. but it belongs there, and the list is misnamed!!!
• Without cheating, and shorter: Elisabeth Parr, Marchioness of Northampton → Southwark → United Kingdom → Astronomy → List of astronomers → Seiji Ueda

ETAOIN SHRDLU → Fonejacker

• ETAOIN SHRDLU → English Language → Cockney → Fonejacker.

Walt Disney to The Hollies

• Walt Disney → The Walt Disney Company → Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group → DisneyToon Studios → The Tigger Movie → Kenny Loggins → Buffalo Springfield → Stephen Stills → Graham Nash → The Hollies
  • or... Walt Disney → Lincolnshire → Greater Manchester → Manchester → The Hollies

Miranda Cosgrove to Journey (band)

• Miranda Cosgrove → iCarly → List of iCarly episodes → iCarly (season 1) → Randy Jackson → Journey (band)
• or... Miranda Cosgrove → School of Rock → AC/DC → Steven Tyler → American Idol → Randy Jackson → Journey (band)

Wednesfield to Quilaco

• Wednesfield → United Kingdom Census 2001 → Christian → Christianity by country → Chile → Provinces of Chile → Biobío Province → Quilaco

Gene Hamilton to 3-Faced Elva

• Gene Hamilton → Eugene Hamilton → White Hall, Illinois → Asian (U.S. Census) → Asian American → Taiwan → Music of Taiwan → Mandarin pop → Elva Hsiao → 3-Faced Elva

Forest Thrush to Bird (disambiguation)

• Forest Thrush → Bird → Bird (disambiguation)
• Bird (disambiguation) → Bird → Passerine → Turdidae → Forest Thrush

Pytor Iylich Tchaikovsky to Pelican Eel

• Tchaikovsky → Germany → Baltic Sea → Atlantic Ocean → Eel → Saccopharyngiformes → Pelican eel

Courtland to Hunter of Stars

• Courtland → Courtland, Virginia → Jerusalem → Athens → Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest → Hunter of Stars

Pat Tillman to Jesus in Islam

• Pat Tillman → Quran → Jesus in Islam

Ohio to Cancel culture

• Ohio → Alabama → Lynching → Cancel culture

Franklin the Turtle (books) to Pete Hegseth

• Franklin the Turtle (books) → Franklin and Friends → United States → Cabinet of the United States → Pete Hegseth
• Reverse path: Pete Hegseth → NBC News → NBC → Nelvana → Franklin the Turtle (books)

No chains found

• Pope Francis to Windo.

• Discovered by SchmoeLord on July 12, 2021.

Solved:

Pope Francis to Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to University of Texas at Austin to Armadillo World Headquarters to Gary Windo to Windo.

• List of serial killers by number of victims to Vodafone-Funkturm Stuttgart-Vaihingen.

• by Enderspearl184 on September 11, 2021.

Solved:

List of serial killers by number of victims to Germany to Stuttgart to Vodafone-Funkturm Stuttgart-Vaihingen

• Portugal. The Man to Glass animal collectibles

• by SneckoBoi on September 28, 2021.

• Solved: Portugal. The Man → Laneway Festival → Glass Animals → Glass animal collectibles SnuggleSnorlax (talk) 07:04, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

• Nuclear fusion to Heterobathmia pseuderiocrania

• on October 16, 2021.

Solved:

Nuclear fission to Energy to Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis to Lepidoptera to Heterobathmiina (redirect to Heterobathmia) to Heterobathmia pseuderiocrania.

(the other two end articles are just orphans)

• Main Page to Main page (disambiguation) Oddly enough, the reverse path is just one link. --67.183.136.85 (talk) 01:20, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

• Tomato to Pomodoro

• on June 19, 2022.

• Menlo Park City School District to Windo

• by Tvshowoflife on November 25, 2022.

• Poodle Hat to Clutterbuck

• by Tvshowoflife on January 1,2023. Happy New Year!

Solved:

Poodle Hat to ARIA to Countdown (Australian TV series) to List of programs broadcast by ABC (Australian TV network) to Stormy Petrel (TV series) to Muriel Steinbeck to Clutterbuck.

• Sergey Taboritsky to Sudovia.

• on January 10, 2023.

• List of Facebook features to Genzano.

• by 111.220.108.141 (talk) 02:13, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

• CYK algorithm to Depression.

• by Core0y 10:19, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

• Solved: CYK algorithm → Algorithm → Emil Leon Post → Depression (mood) → Depression SnuggleSnorlax (talk) 07:04, 24 July 2025 (UTC)

• Deng Xiaoping to Depression.

• by Core0y 02:11, 24 Juky 2024 (UTC)

Solved:

Deng Xiaoping to Parkinson's disease to Parkinson's disease dementia to Dementia to frontotemporal dementia to Depression.

• April 25, 2026, three-degree path: Deng Xiaoping → Parkinson's disease → Depression (mood) → Depression

• Civil War (film) to Fanta Cake

Solved:

Civil War (film) to World War II to Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy to The Coca-Cola Company to Fanta to Fanta cake.

• April 25, 2026, three-degree path: Civil War (film) → KFC → Tres leches cake → Fanta cake

• FC Zana Abasha to Fanta Cake

Solved:

FC Zana Abasha to Georgia (country) to World War II to Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy to The Coca-Cola Company to Fanta to Fanta cake.

• April 25, 2026: FC Zana Abasha → Association football → Cornish hurling → Heavy cake → Fanta cake

• Trespass (clothing) to Fanta Cake

• by Duke of New Gwynedd (talk • contrib.) 14:05, 1 July 2026 (UTC)
• Solved: Trespass (clothing) → Wholesaling → Germany → Stollen → Fanta cake SnuggleSnorlax (talk) 12:36, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

• Hoppers (film) to Jesus

• by Duke of New Gwynedd (talk • contrib.) 14:05, 1 July 2026 (UTC)

Hoppers (film) → Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures → Walt Disney → Birth Name (via née) → French Language → Romance Languages → Roman Empire → Christianity → Jesus TGNK615 (talk) 10:39, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

• July 23, 2026, two-degree path: Hoppers (film) → British Board of Film Classification → Jesus

Six Degrees to Kevin Bacon

Rules: (1) The destination is Kevin Bacon, in precisely six links; the more obscure, the better. (2) No, but no, film- or acting-related links are allowed. I'm starting off with:

• Poor Man's Bible → Acid rain → John Evelyn → Bubble and squeak → Belgium → Afterlife → Kevin Bacon

Afterlife no longer links to Kevin Bacon

• Morphine → Botany → Binomial nomenclature → Clade → Smallpox → Philadelphia → Kevin Bacon

Philadelphia now has a separate page for notable persons so this is now seven degrees.

• Composite bow → Ancient Egypt → Government → Aerospace → Light fixture → Internet meme → Kevin Bacon
• Climate change → Greenland Ice Sheet → Mars → Electric vehicle → World Bank → Gulf War → Kevin Bacon
• Cockroach → North America → List of regions of the United States → Mid-Atlantic (United States) → Pennsylvania → List of people from Pennsylvania → Kevin Bacon
• Adolf Hitler → Academy of Fine Arts Vienna → University of Music and Performing Arts Graz → Darius Milhaud → Budapest Quartet → Settlement Music School → Kevin Bacon
• Sonic the Hedgehog → Doppelganger → Spontaneous Human Combustion → Reincarnation → Index of Jainism-related articles → Wikipedia:Six_degrees_of_Wikipedia → Kevin Bacon

Index of Jainism-related articles no longer links to Wikipedia:Six degrees of Wikipedia

See also

• Wikipedia:Wikipedians by Erdős number
• Wikipedia:Get to Philosophy
• Wikipedia:Link Surfing

External links

• WikiDistrict A now-defunct real-time Wikipedia path calculator
• The Wiki Game A Real-time and multiplayer version of the game where the player has been given maximum time-limits to get from one wikipedia page to another. Players compete in real time. Players are assigned random names and can register and choose a permanent nickname.
• Six degrees tool A now-defunct real-time Wikipedia path calculator
• Wikispeedia An implementation of the game with an additional research purpose.
• Lost in Wikipedia - BBC News Magazine article on 'Wiki-chaining'
• Six Degrees of Wikipedia Functioning real-time Wikipedia path calculator
• Jitendran, K; Akash, S; Aswin, N; Rajesh Kumar, T (2021-05-01). "Six by Two Degrees of Wikipedia using BFS Algorithm". Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 1916 (1) 012232. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1916/1/012232. ISSN 1742-6588.