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This is a great idea for a project page. Hopefully it will get filled in as more people hear of it... — THIS IS MESSED OCKER (TALK) 23:44, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Serendipity brought me here. I think I have a nominee for most AfD'ed article: see Daniel Brandt currently working on its 13th AFD. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daniel Brandt (13th nomination). Anyone know any higher number? Carlossuarez46 01:01, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Does this include articles promoted as " brilliant prose" (the precursor to "Featured article")? Kaldari 19:49, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
So far, I've found that World War II has, 50 pics, looking around to see if there is something that beats this. - Trevor MacInnis ( Contribs) 15:54, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
The X-Files has 138 inline and 11 further reading. Looking for more. - Trevor MacInnis ( Contribs) 15:55, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
Can we create a shortcut here? What would it be? WP:WR is already in use... -- Menti fisto 00:02, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
The article is no longer then oldest stub! Let's change that text please to something else. Gary King ( talk) 05:44, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Counting all the interwiki links, India has an article in 175 languages, English included. Cattus 16:13, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
This article needs an update. Us441( talk)( contribs) 11:26, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
I've just looked at the Jimmy Carr article to see SEVEN references to him being born in Limerick. Surely this is some sort of record? -- DatRoot 23:44, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Hey I know no one's posted here for nearly 3 years but I'll still ask my question about this Wiki record I cannot find. Which Wikipedia articles appear in the most languages, I mean most number of different language Wikis, and is there a stats page that lists the top ones? I'm guessing Main Page and Wikipedia are top, but I am looking for a more interesting answer. I cannot find the answer, or even the question anywhere, I've searched on Wiki and Google. Carlwev ( talk) 21:14, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Although most of the records on this page are benign, a few like "Most vandalised article", "Longest undetected vandalism", "Longest undetected vandalism in articles", "Longest undetected copyvio", and "Longest undetected hoax article" seem to implicitly present a challenge to the reader to set a new record by engaging in bad behavior. On the other hand, they also help demonstrate to normal editors how long errors can persist, and why even old articles need careful review. Do the benefits outweigh the risks here? Dcoetzee 21:41, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Which category has the longest name? and in others languages?. -- Dhidalgo ( talk) 15:39, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Somebody should fix this article because it doesn't even exist. It is listed at the bottom. Robert4565 ( talk) 21:02, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
The largest page in Category:Medical Subject Headings is List of MeSH codes (D02) which has 2542 external links (all to the same website). Is this a record? PrimeHunter ( talk) 16:26, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Wouldn't many people ctrl+f "citations" looking for a record thereof, so should the word be added alongside or something? It confused me initially. Is there a difference between citations and references? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vulpecular ( talk • contribs) 16:09, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
A recent article lists the dab pages with most entries, but a question then came up in discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Disambiguation#Longest_Wikipedia_Disambig_page: Which disambiguation page has the longest title?
The list of "Longest titles" here only shows the top 7, none of which are dab pages. Any ideas? Pam D 22:00, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
I see here that we know who the 100000th and millionth user to join Wikipedia was. Does anyone know how to find out where each user comes in the list? If so please tell me. Thank you. The Free Editor Anyone Can Cite ( talk) 03:00, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
I want to know what article has been protected the longest (semi or full). 216.145.89.170 ( talk) 19:50, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
A good way to decide between all those single character titles is to redefine this record as 'smallest' title instead of 'shortest', and then judge the size of the title on data consumption or pixel size, potentially both. --Anon — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.202.184.15 ( talk) 14:52, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
which user has the most number of barnstars and which user has the most number of supports in request for adminship — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.194.63.237 ( talk) 17:02, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I once found (but since lost) a list of articles with the highest number of categories. (Possibly Most categories for a non-convention article). Which listed Winston Churchill in first place. Can anyone re-direct me to this WP records list, thank you. Stephen2nd ( talk) 10:29, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
Can we have article with most wikilinks? Yogesh Khandke ( talk) 18:23, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
My current nomination: 30 without any undents. Double sharp ( talk) 16:07, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
ru:Колчак is just slightly shorter than the List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States but longer than both Opinion polling for the 2015 United Kingdom general election and Mary Hanford Ford. Or do only English Wikipedia articles count here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by GareginRA ( talk • contribs) 22:23, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
This edit, made in 2007, reverted today by me. Almost 9 years undetected. 67.243.139.242 ( talk) 03:04, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
So I take it the page that was brought up for the most AfDs has been (ironically) deleted for good? I can't seem to find the page anymore.-- Prisencolin ( talk) 21:54, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
Shouldn't this article be included in long titles? It has ~171 characters-
/info/en/?search=The_Dissection_and_Reconstruction_of_Music_from_the_Past_as_Performed_by_the_Inmates_of_Lalo_Schifrin%27s_Demented_Ensemble_as_a_Tribute_to_the_Memory_of_the_Marquis_De_Sade — Preceding unsigned comment added by GigaG ( talk • contribs) 17:40, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
Do you think you can do a list of articles with the most of a specific letter in them... -- 198.111.211.2 ( talk) 16:40, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
The table is currently out of date-- Avg W ( talk) 02:44, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
Can we have a "most revisions/logs deleted at once" section... - 24.180.251.38 ( talk) 18:32, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
I've added two records to the section "Beginnings": the oldest active editor ( User:Jimbo Wales) and the oldest continuously active editor according to the number of regular editions each month, which turned out to be User:Rmhermen. Jimbo's account is still active, but he had been absent for several months on some instances; this isn't the case with this other user. - Alumnum ( talk) 21:44, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
Vandalism from 2008, just fixed (I googled it to make sure it was actually vandalism, Google turns up no references): https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Perfect_Game_Recording_Co.&action=history -- does this count for the record? Gnomingstuff ( talk) 22:53, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
A new record? Vandalised 13-May-2007 [1], fixed 17-Jan-2019 [2], 11 years, 8 months, 4 days. Adpete ( talk) 08:46, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
It's me again, with another vandalism revert, from December of 2007. (The IP's only other edit is very obvious vandalism in the same 5-minute time span; no reference to such a company exists anywhere; the "arse" factor, etc.) Gnomingstuff ( talk) 19:04, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
13.5 years. Good thing this isn't a competition. — JerryFriedman (Talk) 18:38, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
Not sure if this really fits, but there are some doozies out there. Here is one: talk:Avengers:_Infinity_War#This_movie_follows_Thor:Ragnarok. I suppose the metric could be (number of characters in discussion)/(affected number of characters in article body). So in my example, we get a score of 29233/4=7308...! -- Zojj t c 04:07, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
Breathtaking
15 megabytes kilobytes text (there is few links) in a single noticeboard discussion edit.--
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99° 00:28, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
Yes, +14 thousands bytes, it's a staggering amount of text for a single edit in discussion, and of course non taken.-- ౪ Santa ౪ 99° 00:55, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
I've just fixed some vandalism from April 2007 which I think breaks the record for the Longest undetected vandalism on a redirect page. Bellowhead678 ( talk) 13:00, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi (kana) has been up for a very long time and it’s only reference is other wiki sites, does this count? Bluecrab2 ( talk) 18:12, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
I came across this image (collapsed because it's so long) on Guyed mast and wondered if this is the longest image on Wikipedia? Has anyone come across any longer ones? If it is, maybe it should be added to this page. TheAwesome Hwyh 23:09, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
The image
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This article claims that the page for COVID-19 has 1,032 references when it appears that there are only 772 in actuality. I resisted changing it as the significant difference in the two numbers could mean that there is another page that might actually have the record. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maxteroni ( talk • contribs) 22:12, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
Just reverted some old vandalism and I'm pretty sure [ [3]] barely edges out the last record: 13 years, 8 months, 18 days. Gnomingstuff ( talk) 04:26, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
[ This] edit is just barely older than the last one I mentioned (plus of course it's been longer since then). Also let me know if I should just edit the page myself, it's an official page so I wasn't sure. Gnomingstuff ( talk) 07:36, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
I think I've gotten one: Passive attack was nominated at AfD for being unreferenced since 2004, so I added some references to it. It was without them from 1 February 2004 to 14 April 2021 (17 years, 79 days). This is much longer than the previous record listed, but I am wondering if this counts as legit (since the version I edited did have an external link under a "Further reading" section). What does the peanut gallery think? jp× g 23:17, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
For the record: "Longest time an article had no inline or explicitly-cited sources" (in the Articles section) it just says ditto, no link just "ditto" which article does it refer too and what is the time range for that article?
RandomEditorAAA ( talk) 17:19, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
If you're going strictly by namespace, then as noted Help:Starting a new page is the oldest, from 16 April 2001... but help pages existed before namespaces. HowDoesOneEditaPage, which was changed into a redirect to Help:Editing, was created on 14 February 2001. SummarizeDiscussion, which was changed into a redirect to Help:Talk pages, is from 17 January 2001! — Scott • talk 11:43, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
There could be one at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Weather and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Weather/Colour discussions. 🇺🇦 Chicdat Bawk to me! 11:30, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
I have found a number of things which I think are interesting, but I'm not sure if they are legit. I will put them here and we'll see what the deal is.
The earliest revision for an AfD page is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Francis Cruickshank, per this SQL query (2002-12-01T20:02:18). jp× g 08:14, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
The earliest revision for a VfD page (per this query) is this one, from 2002-05-15T15:22:23, which has the first vote on the page as such:
Oh ho -- but there's even earlier stuff at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia utilities/Page titles to be deleted. I don't know what the deal is (there are no timestamps on most of these), but one comment on JamieTheFoool says "April 3, 2002".
Hmm, and that page links to even earlier stuff, at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia utilities/Page titles to be deleted/Archive. These don't even have timestamps at all. And it links to something even further back...
Which is Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia utilities/Page titles to be deleted/History. This has a couple entries -- God knows when they're from, but the page says it was created on 2001-11-06.
@ Graham87: You have any idea what of these is the real deal? Is there more stuff on Nostalgia that comes before this? My thinking here is that we have a few things of note here: the first standalone deletion discussion page, the first voting process, the first nomination of an article to be carried out by an admin (rather than just a direct summary deletion), and then before that, the first deletion itself. jp× g 08:22, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
I thought a 21⁄2 year old vandalism at William Draper might have made the list. Those are some seriously impressive records for going undetected. Not sure if there is room for a non-English vandalism category that this might make, though. Van Isaac, MPLL cont WpWS 01:23, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
If the legitimate shortest pages (as in, pages that weren't kept as redirects through page moves) were to be included here, the shortest disambiguation page on Wikipedia would be Phenylphenol, at 150 bytes. The shortest article would be Queen Eleanor's Vengeance and Other Poems, at 288 bytes. DizzyTheMan ( talk) 16:42, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
It may be worth it to include the longest footnote on Wikipedia, in terms of word count. ~ HAL 333 06:49, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
End time or list of goals by Abby Wambach. Dawid2009 ( talk) 07:22, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
For example [4] or video game Glaiatus. Sometimes topic can be very popular but is delted due to poor writting article or topic actually may be not notable despite popularity (inherit or no fair sources etc.) Dawid2009 ( talk) 07:30, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
User:Jasonr was made a sysop in 2003, in order to fix a server crash, and apart from that has four edits. That's gotta be something, right? jp× g 21:24, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
Do we have anything on this? For example:
Is this anything? jp× g 🗯️ 22:33, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 |
This is a great idea for a project page. Hopefully it will get filled in as more people hear of it... — THIS IS MESSED OCKER (TALK) 23:44, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Serendipity brought me here. I think I have a nominee for most AfD'ed article: see Daniel Brandt currently working on its 13th AFD. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daniel Brandt (13th nomination). Anyone know any higher number? Carlossuarez46 01:01, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Does this include articles promoted as " brilliant prose" (the precursor to "Featured article")? Kaldari 19:49, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
So far, I've found that World War II has, 50 pics, looking around to see if there is something that beats this. - Trevor MacInnis ( Contribs) 15:54, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
The X-Files has 138 inline and 11 further reading. Looking for more. - Trevor MacInnis ( Contribs) 15:55, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
Can we create a shortcut here? What would it be? WP:WR is already in use... -- Menti fisto 00:02, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
The article is no longer then oldest stub! Let's change that text please to something else. Gary King ( talk) 05:44, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
Counting all the interwiki links, India has an article in 175 languages, English included. Cattus 16:13, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
This article needs an update. Us441( talk)( contribs) 11:26, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
I've just looked at the Jimmy Carr article to see SEVEN references to him being born in Limerick. Surely this is some sort of record? -- DatRoot 23:44, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Hey I know no one's posted here for nearly 3 years but I'll still ask my question about this Wiki record I cannot find. Which Wikipedia articles appear in the most languages, I mean most number of different language Wikis, and is there a stats page that lists the top ones? I'm guessing Main Page and Wikipedia are top, but I am looking for a more interesting answer. I cannot find the answer, or even the question anywhere, I've searched on Wiki and Google. Carlwev ( talk) 21:14, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
Although most of the records on this page are benign, a few like "Most vandalised article", "Longest undetected vandalism", "Longest undetected vandalism in articles", "Longest undetected copyvio", and "Longest undetected hoax article" seem to implicitly present a challenge to the reader to set a new record by engaging in bad behavior. On the other hand, they also help demonstrate to normal editors how long errors can persist, and why even old articles need careful review. Do the benefits outweigh the risks here? Dcoetzee 21:41, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Which category has the longest name? and in others languages?. -- Dhidalgo ( talk) 15:39, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
Somebody should fix this article because it doesn't even exist. It is listed at the bottom. Robert4565 ( talk) 21:02, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
The largest page in Category:Medical Subject Headings is List of MeSH codes (D02) which has 2542 external links (all to the same website). Is this a record? PrimeHunter ( talk) 16:26, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
Wouldn't many people ctrl+f "citations" looking for a record thereof, so should the word be added alongside or something? It confused me initially. Is there a difference between citations and references? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vulpecular ( talk • contribs) 16:09, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
A recent article lists the dab pages with most entries, but a question then came up in discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Disambiguation#Longest_Wikipedia_Disambig_page: Which disambiguation page has the longest title?
The list of "Longest titles" here only shows the top 7, none of which are dab pages. Any ideas? Pam D 22:00, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
I see here that we know who the 100000th and millionth user to join Wikipedia was. Does anyone know how to find out where each user comes in the list? If so please tell me. Thank you. The Free Editor Anyone Can Cite ( talk) 03:00, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
I want to know what article has been protected the longest (semi or full). 216.145.89.170 ( talk) 19:50, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
A good way to decide between all those single character titles is to redefine this record as 'smallest' title instead of 'shortest', and then judge the size of the title on data consumption or pixel size, potentially both. --Anon — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.202.184.15 ( talk) 14:52, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
which user has the most number of barnstars and which user has the most number of supports in request for adminship — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.194.63.237 ( talk) 17:02, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi, I once found (but since lost) a list of articles with the highest number of categories. (Possibly Most categories for a non-convention article). Which listed Winston Churchill in first place. Can anyone re-direct me to this WP records list, thank you. Stephen2nd ( talk) 10:29, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
Can we have article with most wikilinks? Yogesh Khandke ( talk) 18:23, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
My current nomination: 30 without any undents. Double sharp ( talk) 16:07, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
ru:Колчак is just slightly shorter than the List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States but longer than both Opinion polling for the 2015 United Kingdom general election and Mary Hanford Ford. Or do only English Wikipedia articles count here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by GareginRA ( talk • contribs) 22:23, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
This edit, made in 2007, reverted today by me. Almost 9 years undetected. 67.243.139.242 ( talk) 03:04, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
So I take it the page that was brought up for the most AfDs has been (ironically) deleted for good? I can't seem to find the page anymore.-- Prisencolin ( talk) 21:54, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
Shouldn't this article be included in long titles? It has ~171 characters-
/info/en/?search=The_Dissection_and_Reconstruction_of_Music_from_the_Past_as_Performed_by_the_Inmates_of_Lalo_Schifrin%27s_Demented_Ensemble_as_a_Tribute_to_the_Memory_of_the_Marquis_De_Sade — Preceding unsigned comment added by GigaG ( talk • contribs) 17:40, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
Do you think you can do a list of articles with the most of a specific letter in them... -- 198.111.211.2 ( talk) 16:40, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
The table is currently out of date-- Avg W ( talk) 02:44, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
Can we have a "most revisions/logs deleted at once" section... - 24.180.251.38 ( talk) 18:32, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
I've added two records to the section "Beginnings": the oldest active editor ( User:Jimbo Wales) and the oldest continuously active editor according to the number of regular editions each month, which turned out to be User:Rmhermen. Jimbo's account is still active, but he had been absent for several months on some instances; this isn't the case with this other user. - Alumnum ( talk) 21:44, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
Vandalism from 2008, just fixed (I googled it to make sure it was actually vandalism, Google turns up no references): https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Perfect_Game_Recording_Co.&action=history -- does this count for the record? Gnomingstuff ( talk) 22:53, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
A new record? Vandalised 13-May-2007 [1], fixed 17-Jan-2019 [2], 11 years, 8 months, 4 days. Adpete ( talk) 08:46, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
It's me again, with another vandalism revert, from December of 2007. (The IP's only other edit is very obvious vandalism in the same 5-minute time span; no reference to such a company exists anywhere; the "arse" factor, etc.) Gnomingstuff ( talk) 19:04, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
13.5 years. Good thing this isn't a competition. — JerryFriedman (Talk) 18:38, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
Not sure if this really fits, but there are some doozies out there. Here is one: talk:Avengers:_Infinity_War#This_movie_follows_Thor:Ragnarok. I suppose the metric could be (number of characters in discussion)/(affected number of characters in article body). So in my example, we get a score of 29233/4=7308...! -- Zojj t c 04:07, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
Breathtaking
15 megabytes kilobytes text (there is few links) in a single noticeboard discussion edit.--
౪ Santa ౪
99° 00:28, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
Yes, +14 thousands bytes, it's a staggering amount of text for a single edit in discussion, and of course non taken.-- ౪ Santa ౪ 99° 00:55, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
I've just fixed some vandalism from April 2007 which I think breaks the record for the Longest undetected vandalism on a redirect page. Bellowhead678 ( talk) 13:00, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi (kana) has been up for a very long time and it’s only reference is other wiki sites, does this count? Bluecrab2 ( talk) 18:12, 14 February 2020 (UTC)
I came across this image (collapsed because it's so long) on Guyed mast and wondered if this is the longest image on Wikipedia? Has anyone come across any longer ones? If it is, maybe it should be added to this page. TheAwesome Hwyh 23:09, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
The image
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This article claims that the page for COVID-19 has 1,032 references when it appears that there are only 772 in actuality. I resisted changing it as the significant difference in the two numbers could mean that there is another page that might actually have the record. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Maxteroni ( talk • contribs) 22:12, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
Just reverted some old vandalism and I'm pretty sure [ [3]] barely edges out the last record: 13 years, 8 months, 18 days. Gnomingstuff ( talk) 04:26, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
[ This] edit is just barely older than the last one I mentioned (plus of course it's been longer since then). Also let me know if I should just edit the page myself, it's an official page so I wasn't sure. Gnomingstuff ( talk) 07:36, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
I think I've gotten one: Passive attack was nominated at AfD for being unreferenced since 2004, so I added some references to it. It was without them from 1 February 2004 to 14 April 2021 (17 years, 79 days). This is much longer than the previous record listed, but I am wondering if this counts as legit (since the version I edited did have an external link under a "Further reading" section). What does the peanut gallery think? jp× g 23:17, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
For the record: "Longest time an article had no inline or explicitly-cited sources" (in the Articles section) it just says ditto, no link just "ditto" which article does it refer too and what is the time range for that article?
RandomEditorAAA ( talk) 17:19, 11 August 2021 (UTC)
If you're going strictly by namespace, then as noted Help:Starting a new page is the oldest, from 16 April 2001... but help pages existed before namespaces. HowDoesOneEditaPage, which was changed into a redirect to Help:Editing, was created on 14 February 2001. SummarizeDiscussion, which was changed into a redirect to Help:Talk pages, is from 17 January 2001! — Scott • talk 11:43, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
There could be one at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Weather and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Weather/Colour discussions. 🇺🇦 Chicdat Bawk to me! 11:30, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
I have found a number of things which I think are interesting, but I'm not sure if they are legit. I will put them here and we'll see what the deal is.
The earliest revision for an AfD page is Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/George Francis Cruickshank, per this SQL query (2002-12-01T20:02:18). jp× g 08:14, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
The earliest revision for a VfD page (per this query) is this one, from 2002-05-15T15:22:23, which has the first vote on the page as such:
Oh ho -- but there's even earlier stuff at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia utilities/Page titles to be deleted. I don't know what the deal is (there are no timestamps on most of these), but one comment on JamieTheFoool says "April 3, 2002".
Hmm, and that page links to even earlier stuff, at Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia utilities/Page titles to be deleted/Archive. These don't even have timestamps at all. And it links to something even further back...
Which is Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia utilities/Page titles to be deleted/History. This has a couple entries -- God knows when they're from, but the page says it was created on 2001-11-06.
@ Graham87: You have any idea what of these is the real deal? Is there more stuff on Nostalgia that comes before this? My thinking here is that we have a few things of note here: the first standalone deletion discussion page, the first voting process, the first nomination of an article to be carried out by an admin (rather than just a direct summary deletion), and then before that, the first deletion itself. jp× g 08:22, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
I thought a 21⁄2 year old vandalism at William Draper might have made the list. Those are some seriously impressive records for going undetected. Not sure if there is room for a non-English vandalism category that this might make, though. Van Isaac, MPLL cont WpWS 01:23, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
If the legitimate shortest pages (as in, pages that weren't kept as redirects through page moves) were to be included here, the shortest disambiguation page on Wikipedia would be Phenylphenol, at 150 bytes. The shortest article would be Queen Eleanor's Vengeance and Other Poems, at 288 bytes. DizzyTheMan ( talk) 16:42, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
It may be worth it to include the longest footnote on Wikipedia, in terms of word count. ~ HAL 333 06:49, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
End time or list of goals by Abby Wambach. Dawid2009 ( talk) 07:22, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
For example [4] or video game Glaiatus. Sometimes topic can be very popular but is delted due to poor writting article or topic actually may be not notable despite popularity (inherit or no fair sources etc.) Dawid2009 ( talk) 07:30, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
User:Jasonr was made a sysop in 2003, in order to fix a server crash, and apart from that has four edits. That's gotta be something, right? jp× g 21:24, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
Do we have anything on this? For example:
Is this anything? jp× g 🗯️ 22:33, 2 December 2023 (UTC)