User:Shii/Hoaxes
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This is a list of notable hoaxes on Wikipedia. If it's clearly an attempt to make up something, as opposed to libel or other vandalism, then it's a hoax. If it evaded capture for over a month or became mentioned in the media, then it's notable.
You can add any hoax you know of to this page as long as it meets the requirements above. Sort by the length it was visible on the article page.
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Do not attempt to create new hoaxes on Wikipedia. Here's why. |
| Name | Length | Dates | Mirror |
|---|---|---|---|
| European toilet paper holder User:Bishonen's famous April Fool's article. |
N/A | N/A | |
| Nihilartikel | Nearly 2½ years | 18 March 2004 – 1 August 2006 | Fictitious entry |
| AfD: Broken Manika Given its own article for 14 months rather than deletion. |
15 months | October 2004 - 14 January 2006 | Broken Manika |
| AfD: Amorica (legend) Given its own article for 8 months rather than deletion. |
14 months | 9 November 2004/24 May 2005 - 22 January 2006 | [1] |
| AfD: Eric Radloff | 12 months | 5 July 2004 - 23 August 2005 | [2] |
| AfD: Ladedaism | 12 months | 7 July 2005 - 19 July 2006 | |
| Oliver Bayley, Fungu'lu and Unguru | 8-11 months | 2 Jan for Bayley / 7 April 2005 for others - Dec 2005 | |
| VfD: Cayley-Newbirth operation matrix | 8 months | 4 April 2004 - 22 December 2004 | [3] |
| Afd:Quazer Beast | 7 months | 3 October 2005 - 17 May 2006 | Quazer Beast [4] |
| Helleneologism | 6 months | 2 October 2006 - 1 April 2007 | |
| VfD: Comprehensive Corporate Power previously survived a VfD, embarrasingly |
5 months | 22 April 2004 - 25 November 2004 | Uzerified |
| Indochine | 5 months | 29 October 2003 – 30 March 2004 | |
| Establishment of Juba, Sudan by Greeks | 5 months | 30 September 2005 - 16 February 2006 | |
| VfD: Demomotus | 5 months | 4 May 2004 - 12 October 2004 | Demomotus |
| Sean Koo | 4 months | 8 November 2005 - March 26, 2006 | |
| John Seigenthaler | 4 months | 26 May 2005 - 22 September 2005 | |
| Edits by User:Roylee | ~4 months | December 2004 through April 2005 | |
| Edits by Wonderfool | ~3 months | August through November 2005 | |
| Limelight | 3 months | 26 January 2005 – 22 April 2005 | |
| Township of Asstree, Alabama | Nearly 3 months | 25 July 2006 - 12 October 2006 | Article about a fictional town called Asstree, Alabama |
| AfD: Teothuauci | 2 months | 9 June 2005 - 18 August 2005 | |
| Senate Document No. 43 | ~1.5 months | 15 May 2006 - 30 June 2006 | |
| Navarro's Original Taco Filling | 2.5 months | 2 August 2006 - October 2006 | Fictitious food and company |
| Greenlighting | 4 days | ||
| Tuba (mythology) | 7 months | May 2006 - December 2006 | Fictitious mythical Mongolian animal |
| Æblerød | 20 months | 12 January 2004 - 8 September 2005 |
These don't count:
- Adolph Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenberdorf
- 20 May 2005 - 22 January 2006, but technically a hoax in Guinness World Records.
- Apollo moon landing
- The biggest hoax of them all! :)
[edit] Uncategorised
- You can help find hoaxes! Fact-check and source articles on subjects you know about!
- Talk:Loxodonta, host of The Colbert Report encouraged vandalism which added the claim that the population of elephants has tripled in the past 6 months.
- Tibeirus Lowang and several other articles, listed here: [5], mirror: [6]. I don't remember the dates, sorry, but it was definitely several months. Akriasas 00:38, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
