I can't see the deleted article, but I bet it was basically orphaned.
Make up a fake name and don't link to it from anywhere or in it to
anywhere, and if it escapes NPP it'll stick around a long time. So I
guess there are two categories (at least) for things "ripe for hoaxes"
- technical or esoteric subject matter, or articles of any type that
are systematically obscured from the network of content.
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Nathan, 05/03/2013 18:00:
Anything that is obscure is going to take a long
time to discover. I
don't think history is special in that regard; problem is one of
having it come to the attention of someone sufficiently expert enough
to know for sure it's fake. If it seems technical and esoteric, most
people will assume its true or be skeptical but not sure enough to
challenge.
Come on, seriously? I'd agree in general, but "Gaius Flavius Antoninus,
supposed assassin of Julius Caesar" is definitely not something technical
and esoteric... It's one of the most famous events in (western) human
history, Dante's Inferno is read in USA perhaps even more than in Italy etc.
Nemo
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