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Is there any proof that this Wikipedia page actually existed for a significant time?

https://web.archive.org/web/20130321015446/http://en.wikiped...

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wi...

Wikipedia claims Yuri's page lasted for "3 years, 7 months"

How do we know if that is true? I'd trust the article's diffing history, though. But that is gone - just as the text of the article is nowhere to be found.

The article was moved from its original location to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_hoaxes_on_Wi... . Its edit history is intact there; click "View History" at the top there to see it.

"Now I'm a believer ..." [1]

Sources:

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfuBREMXxts

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