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On the other hand, there’s been at least one case where unsourced information on Wikipedia was cribbed for published articles and then the published article was

• jcranmer 6y ago
  https://xkcd.com/978/ https://xkcd.com/978/ I've definitely run into a few cases where this loop exists already, the most annoying one being the age of the Susquehanna River (whose current cite for age is a publication which explicitly cites Wikipedia).
  • bobmaxup 6y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Circular_reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Circular_reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_... There are also some bots that help auto tag articles with these issues
• femto 6y ago
  The opposite happened to me. I wrote an article, which 7 years later was plagiarised on Amazon. My article got taken down on the basis that it plagiarised the Amazon book. Fortunately the publication dates made it pretty clear what had happened and it got fixed [1]. I never bothered to take it further, so the plagurist's book is still available and has been used as a citation in other Wikipedia articles [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jindalee_Operational_Radar_Network#Accusations_of_Plagiarism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Jindalee_Operational_Rada... [2] https://www.google.com/search?q=Joseph+Babatunde+Fagoyinbo+site:wikipedia.org https://www.google.com/search?q=Joseph+Babatunde+Fagoyinbo+s...