RE: [WikiEN-l] Fictional articles?

From: Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> Hi all. I'm wanting to expand the [[Nihilartikel]] article, by discussing the occurence of nihilartikels - deliberately fictional articles - in open publications like Wikipedia. We mention a couple, which were articles about famous hoaxes themselves presented as real ([[Uqbar]] and [[San Serriffe]]) before being fixed. And, of course, there was [[Jamie Kane]] recently. Things like [[Battle of Blenau]] Does anyone remember any cases? (Myself, I found three fictional Aztec gods. First reference here June 10, deleted mid August.) However, what I'm looking for are cases of purely false information, not particularly intended for humorous effect or linked to popular culture - which if memory serves do get caught and hauled onto VfD every now and again. This is a developing role of the nihilartikel - rather than being inserted "from high", they get added from below, almost as part of a [[breaching experiment]] ("let's see if this lasts") I do know we have people actively inserting false information into wikipedia. Not all of it is fiction presented as fact; some is fantasy presented as fact. But hard to discuss it without cases, without knowing how long these last "in the wild"...