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dog
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I love checking back on the list of longest-lived hoaxes on Wikipedia, because they keep digging this stuff up. The new record-holder was alive on Wikipedia for 19.29 years and only got found in February.

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How deep does this go

Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia
A false entry was inserted, claiming that a false claim had been made that Palladium is used in the manufacture of Thiotimoline. Hoax was initially removed on October 8, 2020, but was added back twenty minutes later.

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"One of the first Japanese non-digital games"

This was on wikipedia for 16 years and no one went "wait that's fucking stupid"??

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eden
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JBOB
Fictitious acronym for "Just a Bunch Of Bytes", said to be a term used to describe unstructured data that does not have a fixed format.

what if we let thiis one stay

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Femperor
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This one's my favorite because it looks like some coder trying to invent slang by pretending it's already relevant enough to be on wikipedia. Which is the geekiest fucking way to get other people to pick up your original phrase.

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I do agree, 100%. But I moonlighted at one time as a Wikipedia "Vandal". I made it a goal of mine to go around Wikipedia and find articles of trans people, and fix them to actually follow guidelines, getting rid of dead names and misgendering and such.

It was always fixed within like, an hour. A lot of that is probably attributed to just, people always watching the "recently edited" page. But it makes me view this kinda thing less lol there are people constantly searching Wikipedia for things to "fix", they're just focusing in the wrong places. Like the Boop boops bucket.

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