Fictitious or fake entries are deliberately incorrect entries in reference works such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, and directories, added by the editors as copyright traps to reveal subsequent plagiarism or copyright infringement. There are more specific terms for particular kinds of fictitious entry, such as Mountweazel, trap street, paper town, phantom settlement, and nihilartikel.[1]
^"Nihilartikel". World Wide Words. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
Fictitious or fake entries are deliberately incorrect entries in reference works such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, and directories, added by...
contained a fictitiousentry in the letter 'e'. New Yorker contributing editor Henry Alford combed the section, and discussed several unusual entries he found...
In cartography, a trap street is a fictitiousentry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for...
of the same name, based on the novel Paper township Phantom island Fictitiousentry Punt, Steve (18 September 2010). "BBC Radio 4 - Punt PI, Series 3,...
was subsequently propagated Esquivalience Fictitiousentry Frindle, a children's novel in which a fictitious word passes into common parlance Mondegreen...
Zzxjoanw (ostensibly pronounced /ʃɔː/ SHAW) is a fictitiousentry in an encyclopedia which fooled logologists for many years. It referred to a purported...
deter) intellectual property infringement include: Fictitiousentry, such as: Fictitious dictionary entry. An example is Esquivalience included in the New...
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...
ball + -ία) is a fictional sport which was the subject of a famous fictitiousentry (humorous hoax or copyright trap in a reference work). Although no...
fraudulent purposes or to catch plagiarists. Islands portal Former island Fictitiousentry 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 fictitiousentry in the German medical encyclopedic dictionary Pschyrembel Klinisches...
Anti-copyright infringement technology Fictitiousentry – Deliberately incorrect entry in a reference work Honeytoken – Fictitious records added to a database to...
types European Atlas of the Seas – Web-based atlas Fictitiousentry – Deliberately incorrect entry in a reference work Geography – Study of lands and...
employed to create verisimilitude in a work of fiction Fictitiousentry – Deliberately incorrect entry in a reference work Forgery – Process of making, adapting...
of Constantine Epistolary novel False documentation Fictional book Fictitiousentry Forgery Found footage (film technique) Frame tale Literary forgery...
Fictitious people are nonexistent people, who, unlike fictional characters, have been claimed to actually exist. Usually this is done as a practical joke...
the dictionary server protocol Dictionary Society of North America Fictitiousentry Foreign language writing aid Lexicographic error Lists of dictionaries...
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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