[Wikimedia-l] Longest living hoax?

[Andrew Gray]

On 5 March 2013 14:34, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru> wrote:
> I today discovered and nominated for deletion a large hoax article written
> in 2008 (Yuri Gadyukin on en.wp).
>
> Is this the longest ever living hoax we had on any project, or were there
> others that survived longer?

8 years is the record, apparently, on enwiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hoaxes_on_Wikipedia

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