The subject is a clear anomaly-something that defies common sense, common expectations or common knowledge, such as Bir Tawil, Märket, Phineas Gage, Snow in Florida, etc.The subject is a highly unusual combination of concepts, such as cosmic latte, death from laughter, etc.
The article is something a reasonable person would not expect to find in a standard encyclopedia.If you wish to add an article to this list, the article in question should preferably meet one or more of these criteria: We should take special care to meet the highest standards of an encyclopedia with these articles lest they make Wikipedia appear idiosyncratic.
These articles are verifiable, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are a bit odd, whimsical, or something one would not expect to find in Encyclopædia Britannica. Of the over six million articles in the English Wikipedia there are some articles that Wikipedians have identified as being somewhat unusual. Wikipedia contains other images and articles that are similarly shocking or udderly amoosing. Still, all such lists risk being deleted for lack of a neutral definition of what counts as 'unusual'.Ī cow with antlers atop a power line pole.
Lists of unusual things in Wikipedia mainspace (see Category:Lists of things considered unusual) should have an external reference for each entry that specifically classifies it as unusual, to avoid making it a point of view (POV) fork of original research.