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It is no great secret that, over the years, Wikipedia has seen many colorful moments of fun. Also no great secret is that Wikipedia has seen many forms of vandalism. Occasionally, an edit falls into both categories: it is vandalism, needing to be reverted, but it is also creative, and some Wikipedians find it entertaining. For many years, the bits of vandalism and/or fun that struck people's fancy were kept here on a page called "Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense", or "BJAODN". In fact, it was one of the oldest pages on Wikipedia, having been created some time before January 26, 2001. Here is the original explanation of the page:

We need a page where bad jokes and other deleted nonsense can rest in peace. So, here it is! [I'm half tempted to suggest keeping the jokes inline with the pages, as they must sort of give the encyclopedia some lively color. But I do know it'd just get carried away and turn into an encyclopedia of silliness, so look forward to frequent updates of this page.  ;-)

— BryceHarrington

However, in 2007, consensus (sort of) shifted against keeping most BJAODN on Wikipedia (see Wikipedia talk:Silly Things), and it came to be viewed by many as encouraging vandalism. Things are no longer added to this group of pages on Wikipedia itself (except on rare occasions), but have been moved to another site, and only a few highlights are maintained below. (Please go to an external wiki to add to BJAODN. Thank you very much.)

Contents

[edit] Historical content

[edit] Best of

[edit] Long-standing hoax articles

[edit] Dušan Jocić

Article Dušan Jocić was created in August 2005, as a fairly obvious thing made up in school one day. During the course of time, several wikipedians in good standing improved the article, so the end result looked far more plausible, while suspicion of hoax by an anonymous editor was quickly reverted as vandalism. It finally got deleted in July 2007.

[edit] Illyrian gods

Made-up content at Illyrian gods (now Paleo-Balkanic mythology) stood unchallenged and was embellished upon from October 2005 to February 2008.

[edit] Monarch butterfly as national insect

The monarch was Canada's national insect from December 9 2004 to March 26 2008... But only in wikiality.

[edit] The Upper Peninsula War

This page was created by a single user, tjproechel, and was active for a little more than two weeks. The article had maps, portraits, photos, even references and footnotes! Its fictional nature was only discovered when no google search results were found for the Upper Peninsula War. (If it is not on google, it doesn't exist.[1])

[edit] Slow Blind Driveway

Despite the phrase being seen on road signs across the U.S. and Canada, this hoax survived for nearly 3 years and spread widely through the Internet via Wikipedia mirrors and blues websites. It included a link to his purported grave and an extensive discography.

[edit] San Serriffe

The early version of this page was a pure hoax, albeit one inspired by an original from outside Wikipedia.

[edit] Wet floor sign

Created by Carpenters13, this elaborate hoax history dated the first wet floor sign to 220 BC.

[edit] Other subpages

[edit] Other funny stuff

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ http://www.google.com/search?q=If+it+is+not+on+google,+it+doesn't+exist

[edit] External links

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