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- noun A deliberately
fictitious entry in an encyclopedia or academic work, generally identifiable as false, usually included tobrand theintellectual property so copies can be identified.
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Considered a loan word from German; Latin nihil- nothing and German artikel article; from a fictitious March 2004 English-language Wikipedia article, referencing a September 2003 article in the German-language Wikipedia now titled Fingierter Lexikonartikel
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sionnach commented on the word nihilartikel
a deliberately erroneous entry in a dictionary or other reference book. See also esquivalience, mountweazel.
July 18, 2008