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User:SnowyCinema/Olimar The Wondercat

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Olimar The Wondercat^{[note 1]} was a fictitious entry in the English edition of the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia that survived on the site for nearly seven years before its deletion. It was created by a British user under the pseudonym "Dubbin" on 19 November 2006^[1] and was deleted on 9 July 2013. The article's fictitious content was inspired by the original author's pet cat, as admitted on a Twitter post by this user.^[2][3][4][5] Eventually, the article was edited further by other users, who added more fictitious information until the page was deleted.

The article's content described Olimar the Wondercat as a children's television series created in the 1970s with a synopsis revolving around a cat named Olimar, shortened simply to Oli in most of the article, who has "magical powers."^[4] The article also claimed that the series had run for 2 seasons,^[5] each season containing 6 episodes. The antagonists of this supposed series were a dalmatian named Evil Derek and later a villainous cat named Cello the Mighty. In the end of the series, the article described "in a surprising twist" that Cello had defeated Oli, the protagonist, and "that he would go on to live forever and be proclaimed King of all Cats." In accordance to Wikipedia's layout guidelines, the article was very poorly written, structured, and sourced.

The article was proposed for deletion by the user "RobinCarmody" on 8 July 2013, who, in his proposal, stated that the content was "completely bogus and fictional." The article had one reference to a fictitious website, "When We Were Kids TV Archive", that did not as much as mention a television series called Olimar the Wondercat. One day later, on 9 June, the article was speedy deleted as a blatant hoax article by the administrator "Postdlf".^[6]

• Read an archived copy of the hoax

Category:Fictional cats Category:2006 hoaxes Category:Wikipedia Category:Internet hoaxes