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		ilamont on March 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A mother and son who unraveled a geographic hoax The identity of that first Wikipedia user to write about it—with those completely unrelated sources—remains a mystery, but all available evidence suggests that it was a person having a laugh, nothing more. Wonder how many other Wikipedia entries have a similar provenance?

msla on March 24, 2020 [–]

The question nobody wants to ask is, how many books are the same?

We know that maps deliberately contain copyright traps. Is this done with other reference material? How would we know?

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