Wikipedia:Unusual Collaboration of the fortnight

Every two weeks, an unusual article will be picked to become the Unusual Collaboration of the fortnight. An unusual article is an article that you wouldn't expect to find in a standard Encyclopedia like Encyclopædia Britannica. You can find a list of unusual articles in Wikipedia:Unusual articles.

This collaboration aims at creating unusual featured articles that could solve the controversy on April Fool's Day over whether we should put phony articles on the Main page. Having a set featured-quality-but-unusual articles on hand will make Wikipedia appear clever and idiosyncratic.

Current collaboration

The Unusual Collaboration from 18 September to 1 October is Nihilartikel.

Selection process

Voting

Please vote for as many of the following candidates as you like. Please add only support votes. Opposing votes will not affect the result, as the winner is simply the one with the most support votes (see Approval voting).

Only registered users should vote.

To enter your votes, simply edit the appropriate sections by just inserting a new line with "# ~~~~". This will add your username and a time stamp in a new numbered list item.

Tie-breakers

In case of a tie, a special voting round will be launched for the next 24 hours. Users may only vote on one of the tied articles. If there is still a tie, the candidate that was nominated first wins.

Pruning

Nominations will be moved to /Removed if they do not attract attention.

Nominating process

Making Nominations

• At the top of the list of nominees on this page, enter the text {{Wikipedia:Unusual collaboration/nominations/name of nominated article}}.
• Click on the appropriate link in the new message box.
• Enter the text === [[name of nominated article]] ===.
• Enter your reason for the nomination, and sign it using ~~~~.

Considerations

• Please nominate articles that may be considered rather unusual to find in an Encyclopedia (You could find unusual articles in Wikipedia:Unusual articles).
• Note that this is a broad definition, if you're not sure about a nomination, discuss it on the Talk page.

Nominees

SMS language

Massively popular and influential slang language, arguably moreso than leet which has a featured article. Currently a tiny stub, should be quite fun to write. the wub "?/!" 21:51, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

1. Spawn Man 23:48, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Scanger

Great, light hearted article. Could do with being less POV though. --Richy 12:40, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

1. --U.U. 18:43, September 3, 2005 (UTC)
2. Newbie222 00:25, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Jason Johnson and Meriam Al-Khalifa

She was a Bahraini princess and he was a Marine. They dated and fell in love. Unknown to them at the time, the secret police trailed and took furtive snapshots. Once alerted, her family demanded she end the relationship. But they had other plans... As plotted out, she sneaked out of home and disguised as a Marine hopped on a military flight to the United States with her Marine. Her escape precipitated a whirlwind international incident! The couple pleaded for assylum; they appealed for the mercy of the bench to consider the frightening consequences of deporting a woman back to the patriarchal society she stepped out of line from. But an unmoved bench would be the least of their problems; a pragmatic Secretary of State, who could not allow the US partnership with Bahrain, which provided strategic access to vital Middle East military bases to be severed and other interests worried over the disintegration of a billion dollar weapons deal with the Kingdom clamored to squash this dangerous love!

lots of issues | leave me a message 09:43, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

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A saga ending with a divorce that was made in heaven. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:30, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

Human Cannonball

1. It's unusual and well-known. lots of issues | leave me a message 05:50, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
2. I think this is a very interesting profession which deserves more of an article than this. Dan M 16:20, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
3. the wub "?!" 21:14, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Amala and Kamala

Feral girls, similar to Victor of Aveyron, but more dramatic. Here I quote the Straight Dope[1]:

The best documented case of [children raised by wolves] involves two girls found in 1920 by an Indian missionary named J.A.L. Singh. The two, later named Amala and Kamala, were supposedly found huddled with a couple wolf pups in an old ant-mound in the jungle near a remote village. They'd earlier been seen with adult wolves; two of these ran off at the time of capture and a third (apparently the mama wolf) was killed.

The children were unkempt, were incapable of speech apart from some inarticulate howling, and in general exhibited animal-like behavior. Typical teenagers, you may think. But no. They also walked on all fours, were indifferent to heat and cold, and lapped up their food like dogs.

Sounds worth an article, no? – Quadell ^(talk) 01:36, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

P.S. An article on the two is here. – Quadell ^(talk) 01:51, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

I started the article, if anyone wants to take a look at it.--Kewp (t) 17:22, 17 October 2005 (UTC)