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A long-term hoax may have been identified at [[Colin Kennedy]], now facing a proposed deletion after remained in mainspace for nearly 4 years since its creation on 8 April 2009. This Colin Kennedy was supposedly a notorious criminal who murdered John Sutter's brother in San Francisco on April 9, 1853. Good story, but unfortunately no sources have been found to verify any of this. (Previously, we had an article about a real person of the same name, a Scottish film director[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2470181/], but this was deleted on 8 December 2008 at [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colin Kennedy]].) --[[User:Arxiloxos|Arxiloxos]] ([[User talk:Arxiloxos|talk]]) 04:09, 31 January 2013 (UTC) |
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Rope Theory
I can't find a deletion page, but wasn't there once an article on an expansion of string theory called Rope Theory? Lurker 14:37, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Rope theory is mentioned here http://bjaodn.org/wiki/Special/Funny_vandalism/#Current_Record_for_Longest_Unspotted_Vandalism but not as a full article. There are a few ghits on the term, mostly outside Wikipedia. The term "rope theory" is also validly used in the context of search-and-rescue training classrooms where instructions on how to pull someone out of an awkward position using a rope as lifeline are provided. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.102.80.212 (talk) 02:54, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
- The hoax in question seems to be that of Josiah Kwokstradamus; created here, deleted here, the "rope theory" part (as well as, apparently, the actual article) only surviving for a day or so in the middle. Not sure if it merits inclusion, though (it technically does by the rules, but there might well be thousands of similar cases). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.141.144.161 (talk) 12:34, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
Deep in my gut I get a bad feeling about this page. Durova 15:33, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
- Indeed, it might encourage Herostratus. —Quarl (talk) 2006-03-21 17:30Z
- The thing is, people already do this anyway. I felt we needed a central archive so we can see what kind of articles get vandalized, and what to look for. Ashibaka tock 22:42, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Formating
Bravo! But this format extends under the left-hand links in some skins. Septentrionalis 16:38, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
Hoax band
All the relevant articles have been deleted, but I recall them being around for quite some time before the band and its albums were discovered as a hoax. See here. An admin could take a look at it and find out the length/dates/notes info. --Fang Aili 16:22, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- Like most hoaxes, it was detected within a few hours. Thanks for suggesting it, though! Ashibaka tock 22:42, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
New hoax: Gordon Balera
My friend and me was just kidding. We are wrote this article. This is just a hoax test in hungarian wikipedia. Next time we will not writing hoax article. Cheers. Nyikita 10:33, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Indochine ?
I don't see what is a hoax on Indochine page (the band exists, the french film exists, and "the French name for Indochina" exists i must say i 'm french but my english allready told it :p
This bit of nonsense has been around since February. --Fang Aili talk 19:49, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Michel Le Gray
Recently deleted, but it was subtle enough. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Michel Le Gray. Lasted a few months. Admin will need to check for exact dates. Hoaxers still at large, admin will need to check history for that as well. heqs 09:36, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Can that really be considered a hoax article? Granted it had a made-up name, but the concept it addressed is clearly not a hoax. I'd have to say that was a genuine article, titled with a neologism. - Bootstoots 19:16, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
I think it's a hoax. see talk page. Udi Raz 22:28, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
The Arminian Tokgrum enclave in Azerbijan
[[1]]
14 days. --86.25.51.168 13:19, 18 March 2007 (UTC)(March 3- 17).
A fake nation created by User: Lilidor. It’s mentioned on [[2]] --86.29.255.68, so the hoax is caching on. 12:37, 13 March 2007 (UTC) It's still going on.--86.29.253.15 19:46, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
And on these pages-
[[3]] [[4]] --86.29.254.174
[[5]]--86.29.254.174 20:42, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
The AfD page is here for hoax history Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tokgrum.86.16.1.182 (talk) 18:34, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
A small group with that name does exist, but has nothing to do with this article, which is a clever hoax. 193.40.5.245 12:20, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
|- | 8 months already | August 2006 - (May 2007 ???) | Fictitious Estonian political party |-
Just added: Lustfaust
Lustfaust survived for 21 months, before User:Spazure spotted the problem and AfD'd it. But because the hoax had been debunked in reliable sources, a couple of us decided to rewrite the article instead of let it be deleted. Notably, the NYT article on the subject (used in the new version's references) commented that Wikipedia had fallen for the hoax, but nobody bothered fixing it. JulesH 17:35, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
Just found this one, and hopefully it's deleted before its upcoming one-year anniversary (created 2006-10-19). Looks like a chemist in-joke with borrowed information about lions. J. Spencer 19:39, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
What counts as a hoax?
Does it have to be originated by the article creators? What if it comes from a book written in 1930, which is universally considered a hoax by people familiar with it, but some "facts" from which have seeped out into the popular consciousness (because some people believed it in 1930), occasionally appearing unattributed as "obscure" information in modern writings.--Pharos (talk) 18:40, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
- Well I when I call an article a hoax, I mean that its contents are 100% invention, & did not exist before the original author or authors wrote the Wikipedia article. An example is General Florentius, which was a plausible name but entirely fictitious article. There are a numberof existing articles about famous hoaxes like Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" radio broadcast or Spaghetti trees. -- llywrch (talk) 20:32, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
- The article was not about a hoax per se; it repeated an extremely obscure hoax which appeared in a secondary source unattributed to its first published source (which, if the name of the first published source had been known, any google search could turn up as a hoax), and which the original article creator added in good faith.--Pharos (talk) 07:15, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
Possible hoax at Aría?
I just happened to come across Aría. It is now a redirect but, according to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aría, was deleted as a hoax. Any admin want to look into how long the article has been around? :-) --Iamunknown 04:55, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
- Lasted 8 days. Gimmetrow 00:30, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Old hoax
Came here from WP:HOAX. In 2006 I discovered a prank/hoax that had existed in an article since 2001. Although the page grew considerably over the years, when the misinformation was originally added, it made up half the text. This is not some obscure page, either; it routinely gets more than 5k hits per day. Is that worth listing here? Gimmetrow 04:15, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
- Apollo 11? Why don't you mention it here (on the talk page) first? Ayla (talk) 11:17, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
- [6] [7] [8] Gimmetrow 00:30, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
- That sure did escape detection for a long time... It's hard to perform any googling on the subject since mirrors have propagated the (mis)information to the rest of the web. I did find one related untainted source, but it does not shed any light on the veracity of the claims made. My reservation is that it might have been some obscure research, rather than a hoax; the main argument against that seems to be that Boston-based John Garabedian is a "radio personality and disc jockey" rather than a researcher. But if you add it to the list (as the longest-running hoax, at that), maybe we could get someone offering more insight on the matter. Ayla (talk) 19:19, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
- Oh, I'm quite sure it was a hoax, or probably more accurately described, a college prank. "Extensive studies" would not correspond to obscure research. This text survived over 1000 revisions before it was discovered. Another name associated with this text had an article which survived for a few days short of five years, but had very few edits and was probably rarely viewed. Gimmetrow 01:13, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
- Matt Jaeger? Yes, the hoax probably deserves a mention in the list then. Ayla (talk) 11:12, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
- Oh, I'm quite sure it was a hoax, or probably more accurately described, a college prank. "Extensive studies" would not correspond to obscure research. This text survived over 1000 revisions before it was discovered. Another name associated with this text had an article which survived for a few days short of five years, but had very few edits and was probably rarely viewed. Gimmetrow 01:13, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
- That sure did escape detection for a long time... It's hard to perform any googling on the subject since mirrors have propagated the (mis)information to the rest of the web. I did find one related untainted source, but it does not shed any light on the veracity of the claims made. My reservation is that it might have been some obscure research, rather than a hoax; the main argument against that seems to be that Boston-based John Garabedian is a "radio personality and disc jockey" rather than a researcher. But if you add it to the list (as the longest-running hoax, at that), maybe we could get someone offering more insight on the matter. Ayla (talk) 19:19, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
- [6] [7] [8] Gimmetrow 00:30, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory
This isn't really a hoax, but a non-notable topic. The term was in use on the Internet prior to the article being written. <eleland/talkedits> 20:41, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
It was a false rebel nation in the Russian Far East during 1920, see the AfD for historical data and the note that it was spreading to at least 1 other Mirror cite Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Ussuri republic. It ran between January 18 and 27 March, 2008.86.16.1.182 (talk) 19:27, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
Lonny Fame and the Belltones
A possible hoax at the (now-deleted) Lonny Fame and the Belltones? See also WP:AN (permanent link). --Iamunknown 07:37, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
This had an AfD in September 2007, but was recreated one month later and lasted till the 22nd February 2008 without being noticed. Alex Muller 08:11, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
If this is a hoax, it is about 10 months old - Lonely Planet Guide to Micronations states that Nick Copeman's real name is Henry Michael King Nicholas, but an IP address here changed the name and it has remained that way for 10 months (for 2 months the correct name was used November - December). Onecanadasquarebishopsgate 16:25, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
- Percy Nobby Norton (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore|cache|AfD
- Percy "Nobby" Norton (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore|cache|AfD
- Percy Norton (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore|cache|AfD
This one kept coming back for a long time, doubtless a few iterations have been forgotten above. Guy (Help!) 18:12, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
- Tuatafa Hori (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) (restore | cache | AfD)
Bogus Sigavan princess, again took some nuking due to WP:AGF over a purported book source which turned out not to be verifiable. Guy (Help!) 18:12, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
This was an elaborate hoax (or collection of hoax articles) which has only just been discovered and deleted, having existed for almost four months. The relevant articles are listed at the CFD here: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 March 11#Category:Spring family. Robofish (talk) 18:00, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
I've seen these two short-lived hoaxes. Sinclair never existed. Nor Sarah Houston. Nor Andrew Williams. Or David Willis. The only real thing about this TV series is that it's a fake. I was hoping you could put it up, even though it didn't last long. It's currently being listed for deletion. —Coastergeekperson04's talk@May/10/09 01:18
Longevity, ticklish situation
Where are the level-headed hoax-watchers today? What we know:
- In 2005 (mostly 22 Nov), User:Ryoung122 inserted significant unsourced content into the article longevity myths, also completely changing the stated scope of the article, and creating several previously unheard-of categories and examples of these alleged "longevity myths".
- In 2008, Robert Young, a longevity researcher who has apparently had some good recognition in this narrow field, stated in his master's thesis (page 34, footnote 55) that "Parts of this are based on an essay by Robert Young (i.e., me) and then posted to Wikipedia on Nov 22, 2005." Most of the text of the previous link was present, somewhat edited, but still with very few citation footnotes.
- On 24 April 2009, I proposed moving the article longevity myths as being in clear violation of WP:WTA#Myth and legend. Early responses were in favor, later responses from article regulars hotly contested the move, claiming that the article only needed a couple more sources to be in compliance.
- On 10 May 2009, I identified over 70 sentences and headings that originated in the 2005 "essay" and that had remained essentially unmodified over the four years since, fact-tagging them all.
- While some of this essay can be sourced, some of it does not have any online sourcing beyond this 2005 insertion and its many mirrors. For instance all of the following phrases are completely Google-populated with mirrors of WP: "longevity myth phenomenon", "nationalist longevity myth", "village elder myth" (which is always the "second longevity myth"), "barnum myth of longevity", "spiritual myths of longevity", "myth of southern longevity", "patriarchal longevity myth", "patriarchal matriarchal myths", "racist and familial", "motivation for age exaggeration", "reasons for age exaggeration", "societal respect for aging", "other longevity myths" (of course), and several others. (Of course "barnum longevity myth" and "spiritual longevity myth" and "southern longevity myth" and "racist longevity myth" are unpopulated, while "familial longevity myth" turns up a WP talk page.) Even phrases of wide application, when coupled with the phrase "longevity myth", yield only mirrors, such as "fountain of youth myth", "shangri-la myth" (note Shangri-La is fiction not myth), "patriarchal myth", "spiritual myths", "religious myths" (includes one keywordlist), "example-ism", "dannon yogurt". After making this list and without changing it, repeating all queries above in both Books and Scholar yielded absolutely nothing except 3 hits for "reasons for age exaggeration" and 1 for "racist and familial", with some relation to longevity claims, but none to longevity myths or folklore.
- Don't get me started about evidence from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject World's Oldest People.
I present the evidence in detail because I unintentionally became a partisan in favor of applying policy and style guides to this article in the face of an apparent circling of wagons mostly by its regular editors, and then further stepped into the discovery of this unsourced research, the biggest original chunk of which is the idea that everything in that article has been discussed by sociologists or mythologists as being "longevity myths" in the "inoffensive, technical" sense (WP:WTA again), and that these myths neatly categorize into the thoroughly original categories sprinkled throughout the article. My own POV is that if this level of egregious original research, the worst in my experience, had been discovered while its author was on indefinite block for 9 months for "inserting unverifiable information", there would be nothing whatsoever to prevent the original research sections of it from being listed here as a patent hoax; and the fact that Young has now published his thesis and a book selling for $101.00, with significant sections based thoroughly on this unsourced essay, does not exempt him from naming his sources for these categorizations. Now would you generally well-balanced editors please comment on whether I am going crazy about this? JJB 03:53, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
- Masters theses are generally not reliable sources, although they are a borderline case and may be acceptable in some situations. The book was published by "VDM Verlag Dr. Müller". Since this is a publisher of dissertations, this does not give the thesis any additional weight. It's still self-published. I can't say much about the other aspects. Hans Adler 13:03, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for your support, additional views are still solicited. Discussion right now is at WP:FTN and mediation. JJB 13:30, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
Slow Blind Driveway
It looks like the jig is up for that great blues master, Slow Blind Driveway. I never edited the article, but I've been aware of it for almost two years now. It has been there for me every time I've needed a laugh. So yes, I'm guilty of looking the other way and even of asking on the talk page about a mysterious harmonica player heard on some of his "songs." SBD's once detailed biography has been cut to a single sentence and is likely to soon face deletion. Maybe some of you can find a way to preserve the article and history in the way others here have been preserved. It's a good study. Several times well-intentioned newbies have blanked the page only to get their hands slapped in the form of vandalism warnings. Numerous editors have visited the page to correct spelling and adjust categories apparently unaware of the article's other issues. The article has been discussed at times in forums elsewhere on the web. Collectors have been looking for his albums. I don't know who put him there, but I'm going to indeed miss him. -MrFizyx (talk) 18:51, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
About to reach its fifth anniversary. Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 19:05, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
Not quite a hoax, but
New World Religion, an article about an invented concept made by a persistent vandal called the "Suki vandal", lasted 5 years. Shii (tock) 05:57, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
SUKI (tm), The New World Religion (tm) is not a hoax. Its a well known major international religion with over two million members. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.17.53.178 (talk) 02:25, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
Johnpallen
I believe Earl of Amersham and Fürsts of Schwarzenberg existed for some months at least, but don't know how to find out. —Tamfang (talk) 20:02, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
- No, Earl of Amersham was deleted after only a day, and Fürsts of Schwarzenberg after 18 days, so neither of them survived long enough to qualify. Johnpallen was one of many identities of one Stefan Roberts, a serial hoaxer who kept promoting himself to the peerage and eventually metamorphosed into Stefan de Rothschild, but I don't think any of his numerous hoaxes lasted long enough to make it here. JohnCD (talk) 20:22, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
- The deleted page history (admin only link) of Earl of Amersham says:
Deletion log * (del/undel) 10:27, 19 June 2006 JzG (talk | contribs | block) deleted "Earl of Amersham" (Vandalism (hoax)) (view/restore) Page history * (del/undel) (diff) 04:13, 19 June 2006 . . Srikeit (talk | contribs | block) (nomination for deletion) * (del/undel) (diff) 20:19, 18 June 2006 . . Tamfang (talk | contribs | block) * (del/undel) (diff) 19:32, 18 June 2006 . . Johnpallen (talk | contribs | block) * (del/undel) (diff) 19:31, 18 June 2006 . . Johnpallen (talk | contribs | block) * (del/undel) (diff) 19:31, 18 June 2006 . . Johnpallen (talk | contribs | block) * (del/undel) (diff) 19:30, 18 June 2006 . . Johnpallen (talk | contribs | block)
- PrimeHunter (talk) 22:11, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
Proposal to restore hoax pages for educational use
Please see Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Proposal_to_restore_hoax_pages_for_educational_use. Direct all comments to that page. Dcoetzee 08:15, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
- Not on page linked. It would be nice if everything deleted from WP were stored in a namespace inaccessible to search engines or references outside of WP. David Spector (user/talk) 20:43, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
- You can read the discussion at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive 67#Proposal_to_restore_hoax_pages_for_educational_use. I remain opposed to it for the reasons given. And all deleted content is stored by Wikipedia -- but access must be requested from an administrator. — CactusWriter (talk) 00:02, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Candidate
Good likely candidate: Upton H. Pennyworth. Evidence suggests a hoax, lasted about 4 years. Rehevkor ✉ 16:06, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
- Done - added. — CactusWriter (talk) 17:35, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, essentially everything in the article created in December 2007 down to today was complete nonsense. The company and its products exist, but I don't believe there is such a thing as "third-generation" cooker technology, working on "either civil or military gas", giving "an economic boost for the 35-40 year-old households in meridional Europe". Does this count as a hoax article if the products actually exist? Hyperdoctor Phrogghrus (talk) 12:25, 20 March 2011 (UTC)
- No, I wouldn't call it a hoax. It was a poorly conceived article with what appears to be some muddled original research. The article should never have been written about a single appliance anyway. As you say, the company existed. It was a significant manufacturer of heating appliances some decades ago and requires a more complete history than a stub about a single product. — CactusWriter (talk) 17:01, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
New Longest Hoax?
Hi! I added what I think is a new longest hoax to the list (the AfD closed a few weeks back, but I didn't know this list existed. I hope I formatted everything correctly?--Yaksar (let's chat) 01:56, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
- I am not convinced that was a deliberate attempt to create a hoax. The result of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Higgby Act was deletion, not because it was found to be a deliberate falsehood, but rather because the subject of the two sentence stub could not be identified. Sources found at the AFD [9], [10], [11] show there was some kernel of truth to the article -- but that the name was either mistaken or mis-attributed and certainly not notable. Sorry, but this is not a clear hoax case and doesn't belong on the list. — CactusWriter (talk) 05:18, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
- I'm not sure that's what happened. We found possible other things that could have been related to a potential Higgby Act, but proved without a doubt it never existed. The closest we came was a man with a different spelling of Higgby speaking in congress, but that's a far cry from it being real.--Yaksar (let's chat) 05:34, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
- What I don't see is any proof that this was a deliberate attempt to mislead -- which is the defining characteristic of a hoax and for items on this list. (Peruse some of the hoaxes on this list and you will see the rather obvious and elaborate methods used to dupe.) Higgby appears to be an unverified mistake -- and, unfortunately, quite common among the pages and text I delete every day. — CactusWriter (talk) 17:42, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
- Removed from list. Comments from the participants at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Higgby Act on March 8 indicate there is considerable doubt that there was a clear attempt to make something up rather than a mistake -- the requirement for inclusion on this page. — CactusWriter (talk) 19:14, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
- What I don't see is any proof that this was a deliberate attempt to mislead -- which is the defining characteristic of a hoax and for items on this list. (Peruse some of the hoaxes on this list and you will see the rather obvious and elaborate methods used to dupe.) Higgby appears to be an unverified mistake -- and, unfortunately, quite common among the pages and text I delete every day. — CactusWriter (talk) 17:42, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
- I'm not sure that's what happened. We found possible other things that could have been related to a potential Higgby Act, but proved without a doubt it never existed. The closest we came was a man with a different spelling of Higgby speaking in congress, but that's a far cry from it being real.--Yaksar (let's chat) 05:34, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
Joseph Evers
Joseph Evers was listed as the owner of Encyclopedia Dramatica for at least a year if I remember correctly. That was definitely a hoax (He was only CEO, not owner). --24.63.88.164 (talk) 23:01, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
- Joseph Evers was listed as its owner from March 2010 to December 2010 (with some edit wars in between). This would make a fine addition to the list. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 00:19, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
- No. This does not qualify as a blatant attempt by a Wikipedia editor to perpetrate a hoax. If an editor confuses the differences between CEO, Owner, Founder, Chairman, etc. -- that is not a hoax, but simply a factual error of which there are millions on Wikipedia. In this case, there was also considerable discussion on the talk page ([12] or [13]) from the start about determining whether the sources which gave that information should be considered reliable. That the editors in the discussion made a bad decision to use anything associated with Encyclopedia Dramatica as a reliable source was an error in judgement but not a deliberate attempt to deceive. There was no hoax on the part of Wikipedia. — CactusWriter (talk) 18:44, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
Moroccans with Disabilities Act of 1992
Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Moroccans_with_Disabilities_Act_of_1992 – Would this qualify for inclusion? It lasted for three years. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 00:52, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
Jean Moufot
Imho another top contender for the list:
This alleged french philosopher and mathematician got articles in all large wikipedias and survived for many years, even being copy edited by mathematicians not realizing that he was a fake. He finally got deleted around 2008, when in de.wp and en.wp some editors got suspicious. He is still around in various WP clones and other derivative work though: [14], [15], [16], [17].
The French WP has preserved moved the French version of the hoax in a humor section: fr:Wikipédia:Pastiches/Jean_François_Moufot
The author of the hoax has preserved the original dutch article and some background information on his personal website: [18] --Kmhkmh (talk) 12:54, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
- Done Definitely! I've added your info to the list. — CactusWriter (talk) 19:38, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
Format
There is awkward white whitespace and cramped text, at least to me. The "Length" column is wider than it needs be, and should be retitled to "Duration". The "Dates" and "Links" columns should be wider. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 23:02, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
- The table's sortability ought to be fixed or turned off. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 03:24, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
Some more
- Jacques Marnier Companie
- Seigneur Maret de Bassano (no AFD)
- Giovanni Francesco di Caspará
- Gyuszi Mészáros
- Zapihanha
- Brian Jamal Read
-- Michael Bednarek (talk) 03:24, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
Interwiki link?
On the German Wikipedia is a similar list in userspace at de:Benutzer:Gestumblindi/Fakemuseum. I suppose a formal interwiki link in the article is out of the question? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 03:24, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
One more
[19] --95.115.10.227 (talk) 12:52, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
Candidate:a series of articles
The parent article is Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:BradTraylor/Battle of Imizu and the children articles are Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Seven Spears of Imizu. Oda Mari (talk) 17:47, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
Sailor Toadstool
Sailor Toadstool was on the encyclopedia for, IIRC, six months, but isn't listed on this page. I can't get the exact dates b/c I'm not an admin. I fondly remember this article which was created by a friend of mine when we were teenagers. --✶♏✶ 00:12, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
- Created 31 Dec 2004, last revision 16 May 2005, deleted 21 May 2005. :) --j⚛e deckertalk 02:02, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
"Deletion of entry by Court order"
Or, so this edit claimed. YAH! Yet Another Hoax! Reverted. --Lexein (talk) 14:59, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Kisorsa & Marcus J. Blatter
There was an article on a fictional Hungarian village called Kisorsa. I don't know how long it existed but it was deleted in March 2011 and by that time the author has been absent from wikipedia for more than a year. Kisorsa was described as a village whose primary livestock is the llama, which is somewhat odd for a Central European country.
Also, fictional Hungarian politician Marcus J. Blatter had an article for more than two years, without anyone getting suspicious about the fact that a statesman described as having "strong conservative values" has, apparently, a foul mouth befitting a drunken sailor, as the quote in his article testified. – Alensha talk 12:05, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Date Format
Would it not make sense to have two separate columns for date? One for start and one for date of discovery. That way you could sort each independently. Does anyone know of a way to automate this? Winston Spencer (talk) 18:02, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
Upper Peninsula War
Really surprised to find this hoax missing from the list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ned_Scott/Upper_Peninsula_War
It's difficult to determine the date range / length of time that this was up before it was discovered, as the linked page is an archival copy kept for humorous purposes. This hoax definitely deserves to be on the list, though. Wingman4l7 (talk) 22:02, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
- The page was moved, so the user subpage has its original history. It's not eligible for inclusion here though because it was deleted after only 13 days and has no media coverage. Dcoetzee 21:51, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Ocular citrosis
I've added ocular citrosis. I think it was an April fools day prank but one that lasted nearly 3 years Aspheric (talk) 17:45, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
A new long term hoax should be added
I found a hoax that had been on here for over four years, if any admins want to verify this. Manao was created in 2007 and only deleted in 2011. I believe any admin can look up the exact stats. Thank you. OGBranniff (talk) 16:36, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
- Done. Dcoetzee 21:48, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Martin Coleman
There actually is a American Football player named Martin Coleman: he was a relatively obscure offensive lineman for the University of Southern California Trojans, who played from 2007 through 2011. Timothy Horrigan (talk) 03:11, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
Merchant of Venice, musical version
Drat; I forget what other actor's biography also listed this movie as a credit with additional made-up details, but after it was questioned by a non-Wikpedian friend I removed it in this edit Jim.henderson (talk) 21:01, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Colin Kennedy, criminal of the Old West
A long-term hoax may have been identified at Colin Kennedy, now facing a proposed deletion after remained in mainspace for nearly 4 years since its creation on 8 April 2009. This Colin Kennedy was supposedly a notorious criminal who murdered John Sutter's brother in San Francisco on April 9, 1853. Good story, but unfortunately no sources have been found to verify any of this. (Previously, we had an article about a real person of the same name, a Scottish film director[20], but this was deleted on 8 December 2008 at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Colin Kennedy.) --Arxiloxos (talk) 04:09, 31 January 2013 (UTC)