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275:. While the example papers suggest this is not a hoax, the concept is only notable enough for Knowledge (XXG) if someone somewhere else has already written about it. Regarding the personification of Ms. A. Arbor, one might do better to investigate the jeer of U. Mich. rivals, "Ann Arbor is a whore." 299:
we need an article on this, though I am not sure of the title. This has in fact been cited--its one of the well-known examples that can be seen in any citation index. "False citations" perhaps, but I need to see if there is in fact a standard term--it will be in one of Garfield's many essays. The
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point is that it is not a transcription error in the ordinary sense--its an error from transcribing blindly without thinking about what the references actually is, and therefore evidence of total authorial and editorial carelessness.
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The phenomenon described could be covered in an article. However, it does not appear feasible to rework this one. Let's delete and someone like DGG may produce a definitive article on the more general subject.
255:, so the "Arbor A" co-credit is some kind of OCR or human transcription error. But it's only verifiable through original research, and due to the lack of secondary sources, is unnotable. -- 120: 278: 87: 82: 91: 74: 280: 17: 341: 321: 291: 263: 244: 224: 198: 175: 154: 136: 56: 78: 359: 36: 70: 62: 188: 146:. A specific instance of indexing screw-ups, with no sign of notability, impact, sources, or even uniqueness. -- 358:
Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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It clearly isn't a hoax; it's trivially verifiable. J.T. Hoff, for example, was based in Ann Arbor
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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Limited evidence of notability of the concept, seems to largely be original research.
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I doubt this idea should be a high priority for the encyclopeida either. -
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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unless there's a secondary source somewhere. Perhaps mention in
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Until I see secondary sources, I'm willing to say this is a
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Knowledge (XXG):Articles for deletion
deletion review
Sandstein
talk
11:42, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Ann Arbor (nonexistent person)
Ann Arbor (nonexistent person)
edit
talk
history
protect
delete
links
watch
logs
views
delete
View log
TeaDrinker
talk
07:36, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Calton
Talk
07:39, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
WP:HOAX
Xdenizen
talk
07:52, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
mountweazel

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