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Re:Maigret: Collect a dossier on a person by username from t... by jaclaz on Monday October 03, 2022 @08:24AM (#33066494)
I thought it was John/Jane Doe but I now realize that those are only for unidentified people (in police/judiciary contexts).

In Italy - for the record - it would probably be Mario Rossi (as an example on a mockup form), but conversionally it would be Pinco Pallino.

There are a few dedicated English wikipedia pages:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placeholder_name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terms_referring_to_an_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_placeholder_names_by_l...

it is interesting to see the slighty different use in the various languages.

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