<p>Wolfies made an especially valuable contribution to this thread, in which s/he traced back a particular distribution to its originating author. Doing so provided direct refutation to the Wikipedia article.</p>

<p><a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/201038/does-this-distribution-have-a-name-fx-propto-exp-left-fracx-mup-bet/201117#201117">Does this distribution have a name? $f(x)\propto\exp(-|x-\mu|^p/\beta)$</a></p>

<p>[bounty started 14 March 2016. Now awarded.]</p>
