Talk:Columbusing
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RFV of the noun meaning "The action of driving around a reservation without a license to do so".
In non-durable media, one can find a different noun sense, along the lines of "the act of, as a white person, appropriating a non-white culture's practice as if one were discovering/inventing it from scratch", but this doesn't seem to have been used in durable media yet.
On Google Books, there are some old (1910s) hits for google books:Columbusing|Columbused|Columbus as a verb, which I've added to Columbus. - -sche (discuss) 04:21, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
- Since we've had this since December 2004, if this turns out to be bogus it could be the longest-surviving hoax we've ever had. 4 months less than 10 years. Renard Migrant (talk) 12:43, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
- I've read that Wikipedia catches most vandalism within 24 hours (because people who watch the vandalized pages notice it), but the things it doesn't catch within 24 hours survive for months or even years. I can imagine the numbers would be similar here. We have had a few other instances of dubious content surviving for a long time, e.g. Talk:lain, Talk:peewee. - -sche (discuss) 14:36, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
- Heh, I inserted a lie into a Wikipedia "trivia" section in 2006 and it remained there for 7 years, 10 months, and 2 days. It only got removed because someone ditched all of the trivia. Equinox ◑ 21:48, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
- RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 02:24, 1 December 2014 (UTC)