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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Holzt kju-wp@fqdn.org Date: Aug 29, 2005 5:19 PM Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Probably faked article in 57(!) languages To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org

In the german Wikipedia we came accross the article [[de:The_Flowers_Of_Romance]].

While there was a band of this name in the seventies, the article is being used to promote a newly founded band from Estonia which does not seem to have any relation to the original band. Most edits of the article are from an IP in Estonia.

Interestingly enough the article has been (more or less) translated into 57 languages:

11:55, 26. Jul 2005 Palica K (interwiki Ergänze: tl, lv, ro, th, rm, pl, no, nn, nl, la, pt, lb, ru, tr, gd, io, ar, ga, ee, gl, id, cs, eo, el, es, eu, an, ca, it, iu, vi, bn, sh, ur, ast, ks, sl, ku, ms, chr, yi, se, nah, sr, oc, hi, hu, bs, bg, sk, fi, ang, br, uk, hr, ht)

This seems very fishy and i believe someone is playing a bad game with Wikipedia and most language version have fallen for it (until now).

At least in the german wikipedia there is also an article about the alleged front man of the band: [[de:Tony Blackplait]]. It seems that all the facts mentioned in the article (like films) are fabricated, and when searching for that name in google all that came up are other Wikis (where the name has for example been included into an article about Sid Vicious) and mostly wikipedia copies. You might want to check for similiar fake articles in other languages.

So i would like to make you aware of this. You might want to check the facts for yourself and maybe delete the article from the various languages.

As it seems this article has been classified as a hoax (and deleted) earlier in the englisch wikipedia, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/The_Flowers_Of_Rom...

In the meanwhile the article has been recreated in the english wikipedia, see [[en:The Flowers of Romance (band 2)]].

Regards Michael

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