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I wonder what inspired OudeisPloiarkhos to create an account and upload the plot summary. It's their only contribution to Wikipedia, and it's so detailed I somewhat wonder if it's really proper for the site.

I'd guess some kind of academic assignment, though it's strange that they spent a few more months editing it after the original post.

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My guess is a family member. The author seems to have been a colorful and accomplished man who, nevertheless, never attained fame. The Wikipedia page, as well as the one about the author himself, might be the work of an appreciative child or relative wanting to embellish the author's memory.

In Baltimore, there's something similar with the Amaranthine Museum, dedicated to the works of the eccentric and obscure artist Les Harris by his very dedicated daughter. It's something of a hidden treasure.[1]

[1] https://amaranthinemuseum.org/

The author is famous enough to have had a Wikipedia article since 2005.

His family is a possible source, the external links include a blog post saying that the author's son sent him a PDF copy.

Some weird stuff has cult-like following in some countries. Meaning, in Hungary, the Bud Spencer movies, Torrente and Ford Fairlane script punchlines are something almost every hungarian can recite by heart. I didn't occur this phenomenon anywhere else (yet).

Dinner For One [0] is a prominent example of a minor production in one language becoming unaccountably famous in another, to the point that certain lines became standard catchphrases in the adoptive culture — in this case, German.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_for_One

Torrente, as in the Spanish movies?

Haven't observed

https://cs.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hv%C4%9Bzdoplavba...

The Czech article is way shorter and has a bunch more different authors

I'd guess that some family member like son Jan Pinkava https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0684342/ or grandchildren contributed.

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