The com­plete absence of edi­to­r­ial dis­cre­tion in Wikipedia can bring a ridicu­lous breadth of infor­ma­tion to a sin­gle, seem­ingly sim­ple topic.

Take, for exam­ple, the biog­ra­phy of King Abdul­lah II of Jor­dan. How else would you find out that he appears as an extra in a 1995 episode of Star Trek: Voy­ager?