Fictitious or fake entries are deliberately incorrect entries in reference works such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, and directories, added by...

contained a fictitious entry in the letter 'e'. New Yorker contributing editor Henry Alford combed the section, and discussed several unusual entries he found...

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In cartography, a trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for...

was subsequently propagated Esquivalience Fictitious entry Frindle, a children's novel in which a fictitious word passes into common parlance Mondegreen...

of the same name, based on the novel Paper township Phantom island Fictitious entry Punt, Steve (18 September 2010). "BBC Radio 4 - Punt PI, Series 3,...

mapmakers made up the community as a phantom settlement, an example of a fictitious entry similar to a trap street. Agloe was put onto the map in order to catch...

biographies of fictitious persons, with at least a further 51 entries being deemed suspicious. The first to discover these fictitious biographies was...

Zzxjoanw (ostensibly pronounced /ʃɔː/ SHAW) is a fictitious entry in an encyclopedia which fooled logologists for many years. It referred to a purported...

needed] Michigan portal Ohio portal U.S. Roads portal Phantom settlement Fictitious entry Trap street Argleton Gustafson, Sven (October 1, 2012). "Peter B. Fletcher...

A paper street or paper road (also known as an Unformed legal road) is a street or road that appears on maps but has not been built. Paper streets generally...

deter) intellectual property infringement include: Fictitious entry, such as: Fictitious dictionary entry. An example is Esquivalience included in the New...

Jar'Edo Wens was a deliberately fictitious Wikipedia article which existed for almost 10 years before being spotted in November 2014 and deleted in March...

Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre (1716-1778) is a fictional character created in 1978 by Kenneth Woolner of the University of Waterloo to justify the use...

ball + -ία) is a fictional sport which was the subject of a famous fictitious entry (humorous hoax or copyright trap in a reference work). Although no...

were laughing at was an in-joke. Shibboleth Cultural appropriation Fictitious entry Mathematical joke Military humor Order of the Occult Hand Dog-whistle...

fraudulent purposes or to catch plagiarists. Islands portal Former island Fictitious entry List of fictional islands List of lost lands Null Island Lost city...

documentaries. It was primarily featured in a video sketch, as well as being a fictitious entry in the German medical encyclopedic dictionary Pschyrembel Klinisches...

types European Atlas of the Seas – Web-based atlas Fictitious entry – Deliberately incorrect entry in a reference work Geography – Study of lands and...

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employed to create verisimilitude in a work of fiction Fictitious entry – Deliberately incorrect entry in a reference work Forgery – Process of making, adapting...

April Fools' Deepfake Fake news websites Fakelore False document Fictitious entries Firehose of falsehood Forgery Gaslighting List Literary Lying press...

of Constantine Epistolary novel False documentation Fictional book Fictitious entry Forgery Found footage (film technique) Frame tale Literary forgery...

Anti-copyright infringement technology Fictitious entry – Deliberately incorrect entry in a reference work Honeytoken – Fictitious records added to a database to...

(1603). The 2010 Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle contains a fictitious entry about a supposed Chronica sive Historia de populo Schildorum. Wise...

Anglo-American Cyclopaedia article on Uqbar proves, within the story, to be a fictitious entry. Mlejnas, and Tlön as it is first introduced, are fictional from the...

Fictitious people are nonexistent people, who, unlike fictional characters, have been claimed to actually exist. Usually this is done as a practical joke...

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Honeytokens are fictitious words or records that are added to legitimate databases. They allow administrators to track data in situations they wouldn't...

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