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This article is just beeing delated in France and Germany since there is no hint outside Wikipedia that this person or his weird theories ever existed. --Lakonie (talk) 17:39, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Cross wiki hoax
Most likely a hoax - see here for an extensive explanation in English. Kind regards, MoiraMoira (talk) 09:56, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hoax has been confirmed by this user. You can read it here: [1]. He created one account on wiki-nl and one on wiki-en. Colleague Tdevries and I will confer tomorrow what to do with the dutch account (still active) and we leave it up to our colleagues here to deal with teh account created on wiki-en. Kind regards, MoiraMoira (talk) 20:54, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I placed a notification on the other wikipedia versions involved already. I see only on wiki-en the article still stands. I leave it up to the people here once the procedure has been terminated to use the template below if so desired on the article space. Kind regards, MoiraMoira (talk) 09:45, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Important notification. On this page an article about the so called French philosopher and mathematician Jean François Moufot was published. Extensive research wiki-wide has shown that this person never existed and was the figment of imagination of a Dutch contributor who has confessed this was a planned hoax. Because the data have been published on other language versions of Wikipedia as well and also have been transferred and placed on other websites worldwide, this notice is published here.
