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Though most hoaxes perpetrated as jokes by mischievous users of Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia that almost anyone can freely edit, have quickly been detected and removed, a few entries that knowledgeable readers should have realized were such as those for the American new wave band Transformatix and the 19th-century German poet Emilia Dering, persisted on the site for many years before they were finally recognized as falsehoods and deleted.