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Placeholders for personal names include variations on names Иван (Ivan), Пётр (Pyotr / Peter), and Сидор (Sidor), such as Иван Петрович Сидоров (Ivan Petrovich Sidorov) for a full name, or Иванов (Ivanov) for a last name; deliberately fake name-patronymic-surname combinations use one of them for all three ...
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 ...
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Grammar Guy Curtis Honeycutt writes about placeholder names used by different kinds of people and industries.
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!"
Other names, such as "Joe Bloggs" or "John Smith", have sometimes been informally used as placeholders for an every-man in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand; however such names are seldom used in legal or police circles in the same sense as John Doe. Well-known legal cases named after placeholders include:
Foobar being used to show transclusion. The terms foobar (/ ˈ f uː b ɑːr /), foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, [1] and others are used as metasyntactic variables and placeholder names in computer programming or computer-related documentation. [2]
Placeholder name, a term or terms referring to something or somebody whose name is not known or, in that particular context, is not significant or relevant. Filler text, text generated to fill space or provide unremarkable and/or standardised text. Lorem ipsum, a standard Latin text most commonly used to demonstrate a font, typography or layout.