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Re:Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat by jabretti on Monday November 20, 2017 @01:57AM (#15738293)
It's possible nowadays with a bit of effort to create entirely new "facts" via a one-two shuffle between news sources and Wikipedia.

First, you publish an article on some news source, asserting the fact.

Then you update Wikipedia with that fact, citing your own article.

Other news sources check Wikipedia, find your new fact, and incorporate it into their own articles. Now you have a bunch of extra sources for your Wikipedia article.

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Re:Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat by merlincorey on Monday November 20, 2017 @03:03AM (#15738501)
This is called Circular Reporting[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reporting

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Re:Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat by AstralStorm on Monday November 20, 2017 @03:39AM (#15738642)
And the requisite xkcd joke, in which it is called citogenesis. (Not to be confused with cytogenesis.)

https://m.xkcd.com/978/

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Re:Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat by falcor84 on Monday November 20, 2017 @06:56AM (#15739290)
And, of course, this then made its way to Wikipedia too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_...

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Re:Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat by qubex on Monday November 20, 2017 @05:07AM (#15738908)
Well played, sir.
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Re:Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat by snori74 on Monday November 20, 2017 @05:06AM (#15738905)
Except that any reputable "news source" won't let random people post stories with made up facts - and Wikipedia editors will shoot down disreputable sources such as your personal own blog.
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Re:Why Wikipedia cannot claim the earth is not flat by vidarh on Monday November 20, 2017 @07:08AM (#15739339)
Yes, but you just need it to survive long enough to get quoted somewhere more reputable.
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