[Wikimedia-l] Longest living hoax?
Yaroslav M. Blanter
putevod at mccme.ru
Tue Mar 5 16:07:17 UTC 2013
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
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