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I was going to speculate that the wikipedia user was inspired by xkcd's "citogenesis" comic [0] but that was published in 2011 [1] while the edit happened in 20

I was going to speculate that the wikipedia user was inspired by xkcd's "citogenesis" comic [0] but that was published in 2011 [1] while the edit happened in 2009. [0] https://xkcd.com/978/ https://xkcd.com/978/ [1] https://xkcd.com/978/info.0.json https://xkcd.com/978/info.0.json

Sniffnoy 7y ago
XKCD did not at all invent the idea of putting false information on Wikipedia.
- kibwen 7y ago
  Note that citogenesis is a fair bit more insidious than simple false information.
  - Sniffnoy 7y ago
    Sure, but there's no particular reason to suspect that here; the original edit seems to have been simple vandalism.