4 ms·
What is the Longest Disambiguation Page on Wikipedia?
- peteretep 12y agoTIL: Iranian founders of towns and villages play it safe with their choice of names.
- maxerickson 12y agoSo naively translated, 'abad' more or less means 'living place', so village or town. The other parts of the names are related to key Muslim figures and have meanings like 'elevated' or 'good' (I'm not sure if they had those meanings or took on those meanings). Other countries like to get in on the 'nice place' namings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_U.S._place_names http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_U.S._pl... (Several dozen post offices are located in a Greenville)
- frandroid 12y agoAnd Ali is the founder of Shia Islam, so basically this is kind of like naming your town/parish St. Mary or something.
- rabino 12y agoIt's not _that_ safe though. Try calling an ambulance during a stress situation.
- jlarocco 12y agoNot sure I trust some of those entries. These two, for example example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasanabad,_Kerman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasanabad,_Kerman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasanabad,_Golbaf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasanabad,_Golbaf Are very close together and one has population 95, the other an unspecified population. Could it be possible they're the same place, just not well documented?
- smnrchrds 12y agoA little bit of explanation: <name>abad could be loosely translated as "a place founded by <name>". Abad is a popular suffix which makes place names from people's names. Ali, Mohammad, Hasan and Hoseyn are the most popular male first names in Iran. To put it in perspective, out of a population of ~76 million people (so ~38 million men), there are ~2.3 million people named Ali. It is not a new phenomenon, people have been playing it safe with their children's names for centuries. As a result, a lot of founders of towns and villages were named Ali or Mohammad. Having so many Aliabads and Mohammadabads is only a natural result.
- Raphael 12y agoAn English equivalent might be Jamestown. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown
- peterjmag 12y agoI'm not sure "List of greatest hits albums" counts as a disambiguation page. If you're going to include lists, there are plenty that have more than 415 links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_clerks_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_clerks_of_the_Supre...
- jnks 12y agoTrue. Here's the actual Greatest Hits disambiguation page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_(disambiguation) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_(disambiguation)
- mtdewcmu 12y agoIf there was an entry for "List of lists of lists that don't contain themselves," would that page contain itself?
- Istof 12y agoI think you answered your own question.
- netrus 12y agoI feel the need to send an interview request to john.smith@gmail.com
- nextstep 12y agoThere are 299 places in Iran named "Mohammadabad".
- seszett 12y agoWhat's the deal with the link in the second paragraph that leads to the same article, on another website with a different design? And a few more links too. I don't understand the point.
- ajanuary 12y agoIt's a rap genius annotation. If you click it with javascript enabled, an annotation will pop up on the right hand side. Looks like on the main site it's designed to degrade gracefully so it just navigates back to the article itself, but on the hosted site the urls aren't re-written correctly.
- Gravityloss 12y agoIf you've having a child and have a common surname, might be interesting to use these to find an answer the question "who is your child named after?"
- Gravityloss 12y agoIf you've having a child and have a common surname, might be interesting to use these to find an answer the question "who is your child named after?"
- good-citizen 12y agobest part of that google spreadsheet was the chat. You meet the coolest people there.
- aaronsnoswell 12y agoFirst paragraph, this made me laugh - "what if you just want to know the real deal about the English explorer John Smith’s encounter with Pocahontas?" - then you shouldn't be looking on Wikipedia!