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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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