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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with permanently dead external links, Placeholder names, All articles needing additional references, All articles with dead external links
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placeholder name  Bumfuck Egypt  XYZ Widget Company  You Know Who  advent corporation
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Placeholder names are intentionally overly generic and ambiguous terms referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable and/or unpredictable given the context of their discussion; to de-emphasize in which event the precise specification thereof is otherwise impossible, or to deliberately expunge. Wikipedia
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Placeholder names are intentionally overly generic and ambiguous terms referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable and/or unpredictable given the context of their discussion; to de-emphasize in which event the precise specification thereof is otherwise impossible, or to deliberately expunge. Wikipedia
A term or terms referring to something or somebody whose name is not known or, in that particular context, is not significant or relevant. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Words that can refer to objects or people whose names are temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, or unknown Wikidata
IS A
pseudonym
noun
HAS KIND
metasyntactic variable
HAS INSTANCE
John Doe
J. Random Hacker
A. N. Other
to be announced
wildcard character
+12 relations
DIFFERENT FROM
notname
Wikipedia
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placeholder name
Wikidata
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placeholder name
Wikipedia Redirections
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advent corporation (placeholder), Anytown, U.S.A., Bumblefuck, Bumfuck, Egypt, Bumfuck Egypt, Bumfuck egypt, Cadigan, Dooberry, Doobrey, Doobrie, Doohicky, Dullsville, Fnu, Fnu Lnu, Framistat, Geegaw, Geegaws, Gewgaw, Hoochamajigger, Jane Appleseed, Jew-jaw, Jew-jaws, Jew jaw, Jew jaws, Jewjaw, Jewjaws, kadigan, kadigans, Last Name Unknown, Lnu, Nicknack, Placeholder noun, The advent corporation (placeholder), Thingumbob, Thingumy, Thingus, Thingy-ma-bob, Thingymabob, Tiddlypom, Unknown (placeholder), Whatsitsname, Whoseywhat, Wossname, XYZ Widget Company, XYZ widget company, You-Know-Who, You Know Who, You know who
Wikidata Alias
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example name, placeholder noun

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