List of Hoaxes on Wikipedia
I wonder if any of these are actually not hoaxes, but simply unverifiable or insufficiently notable. Quite a few of the hoax articles are bands, for example; isn't it more likely that they were real, and only played a show or two in some backwater town, rather than being invented whole-cloth? Maybe someday there will be a "List of Wikipedia articles that were considered hoaxes but were actually true."<p>This one is pretty hilarious though:<p>"Fictitious claim that the founder of Orange Julius invented auto-cleaning spectacles, an inflatable shrimp trap, and a portable pigeon-bathing unit. Dairy Queen, which now owns Orange Julius, was fooled; the company based an entire ad campaign around the hoax and produced this video[1] about Julius Freed's supposed inventions."<p>[1] <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj1Ts1X6Vt0" rel="nofollow">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj1Ts1X6Vt0</a><p>And this one seems to explain the origins of a lot of hoax articles:<p>"After being repeated tens of times, sometimes by journalists and academics, the hoax was identified by EJ Dickson, one of its authors, turned journalist, who had written it as a joke with a friend while 'stoned'."