User:Josy R

Hi.
I have been dabbling on Wikipedia for a while and decided to get an account now.

Wikipedia never ceases to amaze me.

One user specializes in North East Tibetan musical instruments,
another spends his spare time correcting commas.
One user publishes articles by the dozen,
another takes part in heated discussions about deleting them.
One user checks for inappropriate user names,
another adds taxoboxes with complicated Latin names.
One user mediates between arguing parties,
another one browses Wikipedia in search of missing categories.

Everyone seems to find their niche here, however crazy or remote, and the whole thing adds up to something wonderful.
I hope nobody will ever try to make the North East Tibetan musical instrument specialist create taxoboxes, or vice versa.

My personal niche for some time now has been the random search. I do have my fields of expertise (and I'm sure I won't be able to deny them sooner or later), but for now, I enjoy browsing through crazy subjects and contributing or correcting small stuff here and there as I go along. I may get hooked on something once in a while.

Random Serendipity

The random search is an amazing tool. I know nothing of the algorithms that make it work, but it is a continued source of wonder to me to see how many retired Mexican wrestlers and studio albums of Australian bands I come across. Railway stations and obscure towns seem to exist in unfathomable numbers. So do lists of the most incredible things the world has ever been waiting for.

It equally surprises me that I have NOT come across any third-class porn starlets, which supposedly - if one is to believe the rumors - populate Wikipedia by the dozens and should, by all rules of statistical probability, show up once in a while just like the wrestlers. I haven't actually gone to the effort and bothered looking for any, but this does make me wonder. Is the random search x-rated?

It's the moths that really take the cake though.
I have even had two moth articles in a row in a random search. Seems like this would be against all statistical odds unless there's an awful lot of moths. I am waiting for a moth hat trick now.

Here are some of my favorite finds. You are welcome to add to the lists, but only things that you yourself have truly and honestly found in a random search.

Major railway stations of international importance

Morjärv Station (Morjärv järnvägsstation in Swedish, Morajärven rautatieasema in Finnish) is a railway station located on the Boden to Haparanda railway line in the village of Morjärv in northern Sweden.

Vashi is a railway station on the Harbour Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.

Minorca Halt is an intermediate stopping place on the northern section of the Manx Electric Railway on the Isle of Man.

Núñez de Balboa is a station on Line 5 and Line 9 of the Madrid Metro. It is Located in Zone A.

Srirampura is a metro station on the Green Line of the Namma Metro serving the Srirampuram area of Bangalore, India.

Civic Center is a station of the Blue, Orange, and Silver Lines on the San Diego Trolley.

Kumasaki Station (熊崎駅 Kumasaki-eki?) is a railway station on the Nippō Main Line operated by Kyūshū Railway Company in Usuki, Oita, Japan.

Obscure towns

Akkuş is a town and a district of Ordu Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey.

Magovo is a village in the municipality of Kuršumlija, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 24 people.

Ljusne is a locality situated in Söderhamn Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 1,917 inhabitants in 2010.

Dhikura is a small town in Arghakhanchi District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, the town had a population of 3996 living in 728 houses.

Winchbottom is a hamlet in the parish of Little Marlow, in Buckinghamshire, England.

Cleta is an unincorporated community in Randall County, located in the U.S. state of Texas.

Doğrular, Posof is a village in the District of Posof, Ardahan Province, Turkey.

Basiti Qarteq is a village in Bahmayi-ye Sarhadi-ye Sharqi Rural District, Dishmok District, Kohgiluyeh County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 24, in 5 families.

Shakhsara (Yaghnobi Шахсара, Russian: Шахсара) is an abandoned village in western Tajikistan. It is located in Sughd province north east of Anzob.

Barkip, also known as The Den, is a hamlet in North Ayrshire, Scotland about three miles south-west of Beith on the A737 road to Dalry.

Lists the world has been waiting for

Lists of events that happened during 2008 in Bangladesh.

List of townlands of County Limerick starting with T

List of Venezuelans

List of things named after Donald Trump

List of highways numbered 25

Moths

Sthenopis is a genus of moths of the family Hepialidae. There are eight described species found in North America and China.

Scytalognatha abluta is a species of moth of the Tortricidae family. It is found in New Guinea.

Eilema instabilis is a moth of the family Arctiidae. It was described by de Toulgoët in 1954. It is found in Madagascar.

Varina is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.

Agathactis is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Agathactis toxocosma, which is found in Guyana.

Athrips phoenaula is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa.

Leucoptera caffeina is a species of moth. This leaf miner is one of several related pests on Coffea species.

Dactyloplusia impulsa is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Sri Lanka, India, Southern China, Sundaland, Sulawesi, New Guinea, Fiji and Australia.

Anania impunctata is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Warren in 1897. It is found in Botswana, Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Chionodes paean is a moth in the Gelechiidae family. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California.

Streptoperas is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Drepaninae.

Isoceras bipunctata is a species of moth of the Cossidae family. It is found in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Israel and Iraq.