[Wikimedia-l] Longest living hoax?

[Yaroslav M. Blanter]

On 05.03.2013 15:38, Andrew Gray wrote:
> 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

Thanks Andrew, did not know about this page, very interesting.

Cheers
Yaroslav