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The Henryk Batuta hoax was a hoax perpetrated on the Polish Wikipedia from November 2004 to February 2006. ==History== The perpetrators of the hoax created an article about Henryk Batuta (born Izaak Apfelbaum), a fictional socialist revolutionary and Polish Communist. The fake biography said Batuta was born in Odessa in 1898, and participated in the Russian Civil War. The article was created on 8 November 2004 and exposed as a hoax 16 months later when on 1 February 2006, it was listed for deletion. The article was ten sentences long while it existed on Wikipedia. It gained some prominence after stories about it appeared in prominent Polish newspapers (''Gazeta Wyborcza'') and magazines (''Przekrój''), as well as a British one (''The Observer''). The article also falsely claimed a street in Warsaw was named "Henryk Batuta Street", after the fictional communist official. The anonymous hoaxers who created the article, according to the press calling themselves "The Batuta Army" (pl. "Armia Batuty"), allegedly wanted to draw attention to the fact that there are still places in Poland named after former communist officials who "do not deserve the honour". The hoax was exposed when the article was listed for deletion. Even after the article was exposed as a well-organized hoax, its perpetrators tried to convince others of its authenticity by providing false bibliographical information and even by uploading a doctored photograph of a street name "ulica Henryka Batuty" (Henryk Batuta Street). The mystification was "officially" exposed and confirmed on 9 February 2006, when the Polish daily ''Gazeta Wyborcza'' and weekly ''Przekrój'' published their articles about the hoax. There is an "ulica Batuty" (Batuta Street) in Warsaw;〔(mapa.szukacz.pl Batuta street in Warsaw )〕 however, the name actually comes from the Polish word "batuta", which means "conductor's baton". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henryk Batuta hoax」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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