User:Bkell/Long-lasting vandalism

I spend quite a bit of time reading Wikipedia articles, and every once in a while I'll come across some phrase or sentence that doesn't jibe with common sense. So I'll dig through the article history and discover that it was added by some anonymous editor months ago with no supporting evidence and apparently nobody ever noticed. Sometimes other people have even come along later and copyedited the vandalism to correct capitalization or something without questioning the content itself.

Instances like these have taught me not to place full trust in the reliability of Wikipedia. Most of the examples below are rather obvious false claims, but there must be many other false claims that are not so easy to recognize and thus will remain unchallenged for longer.

Examples of long-lasting vandalism I've detected and reverted:

Claim	Inserted	Reverted	Elapsed time
(Lead paragraphs of United Nations Security Council deleted)	19:51, 6 February 2008	06:47, 18 February 2008	11 days, 11 hours
Imhotep was born 1/4/2650 BC, died 12/4/2600 BC, and claimed the title "Doctor."	22:29, 14 August 2008 and 16:45, 16 August 2008	21:02, 22 November 2008	3 months, 6 days
One of the most famous uses of blowing a raspberry is to fart loudly.	23:16, 10 April 2009	23:50, 25 May 2009	1 month, 15 days
(Lead paragraph of Null character deleted)	20:13, 21 May 2009	07:17, 31 May 2009	9 days, 11 hours
According to legend, Alfred Bulltop Stormalong's ship became stuck in the Shuttup Channel.	08:30, 2 September 2008	20:57, 31 May 2009	8 months, 30 days
The Polish government-in-exile commanded African armed forces operating outside Africa during the Second World War.	05:14, 30 September 2009	01:32, 8 March 2010	5 months, 8 days
The name "Doha" comes from an Arabic word meaning "sticky tree."	17:39, 18 January 2010	16:40, 12 July 2010	5 months, 24 days
Aurora, Nebraska receives 160 inches of rainfall each year.	16:47, 29 April 2010	15:17, 16 July 2010	2 months, 17 days
A place in the United Arab Emirates was formerly known as "Bhubi Dhubhi." [Frighteningly, this little bit of vandalism actually made it onto the official Web site of the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates to Belarus! See [1].]	01:41, 19 February 2009	13:37, 31 July 2010	1 year, 5 months, 12 days
Europe is a content. (In List of sets of four countries that border one another)	19:50, 1 June 2010	06:44, 9 August 2010	2 months, 7 days
Lincoln Logs are made in China from rainforest wood.	01:57, 14 July 2010	08:39, 3 September 2010	1 month, 20 days
Murder-holes are holes in ceiling gates.	15:26, 21 October 2009	15:16, 30 December 2010	1 year, 2 months, 9 days
An alternative method for producing ethanol fuel is being developed that uses din mor algae. [Din mor is Danish for "your mom."]	20:25, 3 April 2010	04:09, 6 January 2011	9 months, 2 days
Diego Rodríguez was born in the year 0001.	15:59, 6 April 2011	19:56, 13 June 2011	2 months, 7 days
Lateritic bauxites are "silicitate bauxites"; bauxite is hardly ever strip mined because it is almost never found near the surface of the earth; about 10% to 12% of the world's dry bauxite production is processed first into alumina; and bauxite rocks can be classified as cosmetic, electric, or soundiferancic. [Several dates were also changed.]	08:17, 14 June 2012	04:49, 3 September 2012 (fixed shortly afterward, 04:58, 3 September 2012)	2 months, 20 days
Louis Hadski (chief editor) testified in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District.	14:04, 20 October 2010 and 14:07, 20 October 2010	07:18, 14 September 2012	1 year, 10 months, 25 days
The first game of tic-tac-toe in America was played in 1856 at Theta Chi fraternity.	03:47, 25 March 2014	22:50, 30 July 2014	4 months, 5 days
Marin Mersenne corresponded with Josh.	21:24, 12 January 2012	12:48, 5 April 2016	4 years, 2 months, 24 days
WeBWorK green is a shade of green.	21:40, 4 December 2015	01:24, 11 June 2016	6 months, 6 days