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  2. List of placeholder names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of placeholder names (words that can refer to things, persons, places, numbers and other concepts whose names are temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, unknown or being deliberately withheld in the context in which they are being discussed) in various languages.

  3. List of terms referring to an average person - Wikipedia

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    Ivanov, being derived from the most common first name, is a placeholder for an arbitrary person. In its plural form, "Ivanovs", it may be used as a placeholder for a group of people. [ 60 ] There is a military joke: The sergeant asks the rookies: "Your surnames!"

  4. Placeholder name - Wikipedia

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    Placeholder name on a website. 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 or unpredictable given the context of their discussion; or to deliberately expunge ...

  5. Grammar Guy: Placeholder names for every Tom, Dick and Harry

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  6. Category:Placeholder names - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Placeholder names" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  7. Talk:List of placeholder names - Wikipedia

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    Based on my understanding of naming conventions for lists, a better title for this article would be List of placeholder names by language. (The word "different" sounds a bit awkward here anyway.) I just want to check that I am understanding correctly before I officially request the move or do the move myself.

  8. Category:Lists of place names - Wikipedia

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    List of Adelaide obsolete suburb names; List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names; List of adjectivals and demonyms of astronomical bodies; List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations; List of administrative division name changes; List of placenames of Indigenous origin in the Americas; List of renamed places in ...

  9. Category:Names - Wikipedia

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    Personal names are listed in Category:Given names, family names in Category:Surnames. Subcategories. ... Placeholder names (61 P) S. Ship names (50 C, 1,507 P)