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Masal Bugduv is a fictional Moldovan youth footballer who was the subject of a hoax. ==History== With a fabricated backstory describing a teenage prodigy on a web of blog postings, evidently created by different people, reports of the youth talent were ultimately published in a ''The Times'' article titled "Football's top 50 rising stars",〔Dart, Tom, ''The Times'' (January 12, 2009). (Football's top 50 rising stars )〕〔Phillips, Brian, ''Slate'' (January 23, 2009). (Fictional Moldovan Soccer Phenom Tells All )〕 as well as in ''When Saturday Comes'' and Goal.com.〔SoccerLens.com (January 15, 2009). (The curious case of Masal Bugduv )〕 As a means to establish credibility to the identity, the creators of the hoax planted text into Wikipedia articles and forged Associated Press reports.〔〔 The erroneous information remained in Wikipedia from July 2008 to January 2009. The entry in ''The Times'' read, ''"30. Masal Bugduv (FC Olimpia Bălţi): Moldova’s finest, the 16-year-old attacker has been strongly linked with a move to Arsenal, work permit permitting. And he’s been linked with plenty of other top clubs as well."''〔 ''The Times'' later removed Masal from their list and published a clarification.〔typepad.com (January 2009) (The times online clarification )〕 Goal.com printed an apology for the mention of "phantom prodigy Masal Bugduv", stating the information had come from "a fake Associated Press report."〔Goal.com (September 4, 2008). (WCQ Preview: Europe - Group 2 )〕 ''Masal Bugduv'' sounds very similar to the Irish pronunciation of ''M'asal Beag Dubh'' (My Little Black Donkey), a story by the Irish-language writer Pádraic Ó Conaire about a dishonest salesman who seeks an exaggerated price for a lazy donkey.〔Runofplay.com (January 15, 2009). (The literary origin of the Masal Bugduv hoax )〕 John Burns of ''The Sunday Times'' suggested that the Ó Conaire story was indeed the inspiration for the entire hoax, and that the prank, which also included a fake Moldovan newspaper titled ''Diario Mo Thon'' (Diary My Ass), was in effect a satire on the football transfer market. Brian Phillips, a blogger of Runofplay.com, described in an article for ''Slate'' the anatomy of the hoax,〔 featuring a testimony email of "the alleged hoaxer's lengthy explanation of the Bugduv-creation process".〔''Slate'': sidebar (January 23, 2009), (Alleged hoaxer's explanation of the Bugduv-creation process )〕 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「Masal Bugduv」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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