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Undid revision 1057024319 by Piotrus (talk) Piotrus you have a COI as discussed the last time you tried to remove this content at another article. GCB don't remove this either. If you there want this to be the thing we go to arbcom over, it can be. Happy Thanksgiving.
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see talk. Start an RfC, make an actual argument, stop making personal attacks and false accusations, stop edit warring, get consensus. Better idea - stop trying to protect indef banned user's off site trolling on Wikipedia
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In March 2015, it became known that an article on Wikipedia entitled "[[Jar'Edo Wens hoax|Jar'Edo Wens]]", purportedly about an Australian aboriginal deity of that name, was a hoax. The article had survived for more than nine years before being deleted, making it one of the longest-lived documented hoax articles in Wikipedia's history. The article spawned mentions of the fake god on numerous other websites as well as in a book titled ''Atheism and the Case Against Christ''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/04/15/the-great-wikipedia-hoax/ | title=The story behind Jar'Edo Wens, the longest-running hoax in Wikipedia history | work=The Washington Post | date=April 15, 2015 | access-date=April 19, 2015 | author=Dewey, Caitlin | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419001603/http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/04/15/the-great-wikipedia-hoax/ | archive-date=April 19, 2015 | url-status=live | df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/aussies-jaredo-wens-prank-sets-new-record-as-wikipedias-longestrunning-hoax-20150323-1m59c7.html|title=Aussie's Jar'Edo Wens prank sets new record as Wikipedia's longest-running hoax|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=March 23, 2015|access-date=July 8, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701152353/http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/aussies-jaredo-wens-prank-sets-new-record-as-wikipedias-longestrunning-hoax-20150323-1m59c7.html|archive-date=July 1, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://internet.gawker.com/how-one-man-made-himself-into-an-aboriginal-god-with-wi-1692426415 |title=How One Man Made Himself Into an Aboriginal God With Wikipedia |first=Andy |last=Cush |publisher=Gawker Media |work=Weird Internet |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709193621/http://internet.gawker.com/how-one-man-made-himself-into-an-aboriginal-god-with-wi-1692426415 |archive-date=July 9, 2015 }}</ref>
 
In August 2019, a discredited theory was removed from the article [[Warsaw concentration camp]], over 10 years after it was debunked in mainstream scholarly literature. The article was first drafted in August 2004 by an established editor who presented as fact [[Warsaw concentration camp#Discredited extermination camp story|a fringe theory that the camp contained gas chambers in which 200,000 non-Jews perished]]. With the conspiracy theory presented as fact for 15 years, media sources dubbed it as "Wikipedia's longest-standing hoax."<ref>{{cite news |work=[[Haaretz]] |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-fake-nazi-death-camp-wikipedia-s-longest-hoax-exposed-1.7942233 |title=The Fake Nazi Death Camp: Wikipedia's Longest Hoax, Exposed |date=October 4, 2019 |first=Omer |last=Benjakob}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Wikipedia's 'longest-running hoax' about fake Warsaw death camp revealed| newspaper = [[Cleveland Jewish News]]|url=https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/wikipedia-s-longest-running-hoax-about-fake-warsaw-death-camp/article_856e66a1-0289-5e77-a73f-219a00536c54.html|date = October 4, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title= Wikipedia page on fake Warsaw concentration camp was 15-year hoax — report|newspaper= [[The Times of Israel]]|url = https://www.timesofisrael.com/wikipedia-page-on-fake-warsaw-concentration-camp-was-15-year-hoax-report/ | date = October 5, 2019}}</ref>
 
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