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I just came across a great blog called the Wikipedia Knowledge Dump. You might be familiar with wikipedia as a kind of democratic internet encyclopedia, where anyone can write an entry and edit an entry (with some external oversight). Sadly, the oversight can sometimes become totalitarian, as editors try to remove valuable material just because it is untrue, silly, or baffling. Wikipedia Knowledge Dump valuably calls your attention to Wikipedia articles that are in danger of becoming extinct because people, for various reasons, want them destroyed. For example, the Knowledge Dump provides the text of his fascinating article on "exophilia": "Exophilia is an attraction, generally sexual in nature, to new, strange, or otherworldly things, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, supernatural beings, and robots." Knowledge Dump provides a link to the wikipedia article, so you can see why people want to delete the article--for example, one person gives the rather frivolous cause for ethnic cleansing, "I hate aliens." Superman was an alien, would you kill him too?

Wikipedia deleters also have a prejudice against the silly and the wacky. Again, thanks to the Knowledge Dump for listing this article on the "beard theorem," which is in danger of deletion. "The Beard Theorem is a political theorem that relates to the Communist Party and its members. The Beard Theorem is a theory that suggests that the size of one's Beard, whether it be a puff, French Fork or Mutton Chop, has a direct correlation to the radicality of a person's Socialist views. If one was to have a large, beard, that person has a higher chance of being a communist revolutionary than one other person who has only as moustache, or worse: no facial hair at all. This theorem is proved by many of the communist Russian revolutionaries of the 1900's, those like Karl Marx, who has a massive, beard and, in accordance to the theorem, is a great communist. V.I. Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution, had a beard, yet it was not as profound, thus he is not as truly communist as Marx or Engels, as he has a relatively small beard, but it is still present and is truth of his communisity. Josef Stalin, the leader of the Communist Vanguard Party in Russia from the mid 1920's to 1952, has no beard, yet has a moustache. Stalin, in accordance to the theorem thus has very little Communist Blood in him, as he is a Stalinist, and a social fascist. Exceptions to the rule is most East Asian Communist leaders."

Now, Several people suggest removing the "beard theorem" article because it is "nonsense." Well, is the theory that the sun revolves around the earth "nonsense" too? Okay, yes it is! But why then do these same naysayers not object to the Wikipedia article on geocentric models of the solar system, even though such a model is clearly nonsensical? Hypocrisy, thy name is anti-beard person! Besides, evolution's just a theory, too, but they teach it in the public schools, so why don't we give equal time to the beard theorem? Perhaps the two theories may even be mutually informative (e.g., would bearded or non-bearded people be better adapted for survival in Communist Russia?).