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[[Image:Oldmanmissingno2.png|270px|thumb|right|A player encounters 'MISSINGNO.' through the use of a glitch known as the 'Old Man Trick'. The name 'MISSINGNO.' refers to data in between legitimate.
Generally, the term 'placeholder' refers to any
Often, various placeholders can be considered as [http://www.glitchcity.info/wiki/index.php/Category:Beta_elements beta elements] within that game because they can contain data which is normally inaccessible through ordinary gameplay. In this case [[Missingno|MISSINGNO.'s]] name is perhaps one of the most known examples.
However, not all '''placeholders''' are inaccessible because sometimes they can be useful for a developer to refer to data which the player has not 'unlocked' or 'encountered' yet. For example in the Gameboy Advance versions of the Pokémon games, even though a picture of a white question mark within a black circle
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