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  2. List of placeholder names by language - Wikipedia

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    Perengano (from the combination of the very common last name of Perez and Mengano). When several placeholders are needed together, they are used in the above order, e.g. "Fulano, Mengano y Zutano". All placeholder words are also used frequently in diminutive form, Fulanito/a, Menganito/a, Perenganito/a or Zutanito/a.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Category:Placeholder names - Wikipedia

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  5. Talk:List of placeholder names by language - Wikipedia

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    Dingenot, dimsedut, dibbedut, huddelifut, himstregims and tingest does not all come from the word dims. I removed that claim. "Tingest" obviously comes from the word "ting" (thing) and I seriously doubt "dingenot", "dibbedut", "huddelifut" and "himstregims" would come from "dims". They're likely just made up because of a lack of another word on ...

  6. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

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    Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.

  7. Alice and Bob - Wikipedia

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    Alice and Bob are fictional characters commonly used as placeholders in discussions about cryptographic systems and protocols, [ 1 ] and in other science and engineering literature where there are several participants in a thought experiment. The Alice and Bob characters were invented by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman in their 1978 ...

  8. Wikipedia : Naming conventions (technical restrictions)

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    Restrictions on page titles are listed at Wikipedia:Page name § Technical restrictions and limitations. The most commonly encountered problems are that: titles cannot begin with a lowercase letter; titles cannot contain certain restricted characters. There are two basic ways of handling a situation where the desired title of a page is ...

  9. John Doe - Wikipedia

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    John Doe (male) and Jane Doe (female) are multiple-use placeholder names that are used in the United States when the true name of a person is unknown or is being intentionally concealed. [1][2][3] In the context of law enforcement in the United States, such names are often used to refer to a corpse whose identity is unknown or cannot be confirmed.