Wikimedia Research list writeup: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2016/February#Test_of_300k_citations:_how_verifiable_is_.22verifiable.22_in

Wikimedia Research list writeup: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2016/February#Test_of_300k_citations:_how_verifiable_is_.22verifiable.22_in_practice.3F https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2016/Feb... Discussion on Wikipedia signpost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-03-02/Recent_research#Test_of_300k_citations:_how_verifiable_is_.22verifiable.22_in_practice.3F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signp... tl;dr it's not an intrinsically terrible idea, but you'll be unsurprised to know there is not in fact one weird trick.