A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident

Re:A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wik... by cgy1 on Thursday May 30, 2019 @02:43PM (#20054566)

The person for my hometown on that website seems to only have been born there but moved away before elementary school, so I'm not sure how that's really all that interesting.

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Re:A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wik... by sizzzzlerz on Thursday May 30, 2019 @03:59PM (#20055321)

I grew up in Visalia, CA which lists Kevin Costner, the actor. He was in my high school class in my sophomore and part of my junior year when his family moved away. Although his later fame is what puts him there, we had a Nobel Prize-winning physicist actually grow up there but he never won an Oscar. Seems unfair.

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Re:A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wik... by MegaButts on Thursday May 30, 2019 @05:18PM (#20056010)

I don't think popularity contests (which is pretty close to what this is) are meant to be fair.

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Re:A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wik... by auiya on Friday May 31, 2019 @08:38AM (#20060301)

Hulk Hogan is credited as being born in Augusta, GA; but his family moved to Florida when he was one and a half. Also, I'm not sure why Viggo Mortensen is listed way up in north Idaho, he only lived there three years?

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Re:A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wik... by melling on Thursday May 30, 2019 @03:19PM (#20054944)

Well, it’s interesting to some people because they keep searching for that person.

It’s probably because they were trying to find out when that person lived there.

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